Italian aerial lift and rental company Venpa 3 has purchased crane manufacturer Locatelli.
16.02.2007
Hyva the Dutch based group that owns Kennis loader cranes has acquired Amco-Veba following approval by the EU anti competition authorities.
02.01.2007
Odewald & Compagnie a Berlin based private equity company has acquired a majority stake in Mateco the second largest powered access rental company in Germany.
19.12.2006
Delhi-based Mobile crane and Aerial lift manufacturer, ACE, is close to completing an Eastern European acquisition
03.11.2006
Details have now been released concerning the merger of AFI and UpLift which was agreed earlier this week.
13.09.2006
News is just in that AFI, the Wakefield based access rental company, is to merge with UpLift also based in Wakefield
12.09.2006
SafeWorks, the parent of Power Climber and Spider has been sold to Wynnchurch Capital Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm
08.09.2006
Further details on Ashtead's acquisition of NationsRent have been added to the story posted earlier today.
19.07.2006
Ashtead, parent group of A-Plant in the UK and Sunbelt in North America, is in detailed discussions to buy Nations Rent in the USA for $1billion
Alimak Hek has purchased the rental assets of Conrent, the Australian mast climber business, from Coates Hire Ltd.
11.07.2006
Hirepool the New Zealand general rental company with significant access and telehandler fleets has new owners.
10.07.2006
The Lavendon group has made its third major acquisition this year acquiring West country based AMP Access Ltd.
21.06.2006
NES Rentals, one of the world’s largest aerial lift rental companies is to be acquired by Diamond Castle Holdings, a New York based private equity company for $850 million.
28.05.2006
3B6 has been acquired by the Cobo group an Italian off-highway electronics and drive component producer.
24.05.2006
Holland Lift has sold the designs for three of its high reach, narrow scissor lifts to Haulotte.
22.04.2006
AFI the rapidly growing aerial lift business led by David Shipman, has acquired Watford UK, based access company Alan Drew.
18.04.2006
Butler Capital Partners of Paris, has taken a 70% stake in Accès Industrie, the French access rental company.
08.03.2006
Arcomet, the Belgian based tower crane company has announced its spending plans for the UK, USA and beyond.
19.12.2005
Leen Stehouwer has purchased Mark van Oosten’s 50% holding in scissor lift producer Omega lift, giving him 100% of the company.
14.12.2005
JLG has confirmed today that it has completed the purchase of equipment, tooling, and intellectual property of Caterpillar's telehandler product line.
29.11.2005
Stirnimann AG, the Olten based distributor for Grove, Potain and JLG has been purchased by investor Burkhard Lichtner
22.10.2005
Franky Mulliez, the founder of Kiloutou, Frances second largest rental company, has sold 51% of the business to Sagard for €170 million.
21.10.2005
Sunbelt, the American subsidiary of the Ashtead Group has acquired Northridge Equipment, with five locations in California.
18.10.2005
Telehandler manufacturer, Manitou has announced The acquisition of Hangzhou Irisman MH Equipment a producer and distributor of IC powered fork trucks.
13.10.2005
