Veteran crane and aerial lift engineer and trainer Vince Mulvanny passed away in the early hours of Thursday morning.
20.11.2009
ALL Canada Cranes & Aerials has added two new locations one in Newfoundland and Labrador and a second location in Ontario.
A crane sliced through a house in Santa Rosa, California on Monday afternoon while attempting to remove an oak tree from the rear of a house.
18.11.2009
Jack Ford, the founder of Kato Cranes UK, passed away last night
10.11.2009
UK based crane and access company Tracked Access has added a two tonne Jekko MPK pick & carry crane to its rental fleet.
03.11.2009
An 83 year old floating crane helped pay for its upkeep in Lyttelton New Zealand.
20.10.2009
We have received the belated news of the death on September 30th of Gino Koster general secretary of ESTA.
08.10.2009
Dawes Rigging & Crane Rental has appointed Steve Challoner as equipment sales manager based in Milwaukee Wisconsin.
05.10.2009
US Crane rental company, Lewis Equipment has filed for voluntary chapter 11 bankruptcy.
23.09.2009
A 150 ton lattice boomed truck crane dropped its 160ft on a job site in Grafton, Wisconsin yesterday.
22.09.2009
Badger equipment, now part of Manitex has unveiled its new 30 ton cab down Rough Terrain crane.
10.09.2009
The 200 ton flagship of the RST crane rental fleet in California caught fire earlier this week on the outskirts of Tehachapi.
19.08.2009
Mrs Lucilla Valla, president of Valla SpA passed away on Saturday August 15th.
18.08.2009
Singapore based international crane company Tat Hong Holdings has invested in a new joint venture in China
07.08.2009
Vertikal.Net broke the five million hits a month barrier in July, while the number of pages viewed passed the 2 million level for the first time.
03.08.2009
Last month, Liebherr celebrated 40 years of manufacturing mobile cranes at its Ehingen plant with several spectacular customer days.
21.07.2009
US Boom truck manufacturer, Manitex has acquired Badger Equipment, the Winona, Minnesota based crane and excavator manufacturer
14.07.2009
Three 250 tonne plus mobile cranes collapsed yesterday in New Delhi while trying to lift the launcher crane which collapsed on Sunday.
Maxim Crane Works has acquired a third of Barnhart Crane and Rigging’s crawler crane fleet.
28.06.2009
Dutch based heavy lifting company Mammoet has unveiled plans for a new 100,000t/m plus mobile crane.
21.06.2009
Several of you have written in over yesterdays report on the crane that tipped in New Zealand, asking if a counterweight slab was missing.
18.06.2009
A truck crane tipped over this morning in a busy street in Dunedin, New Zealand, fortunately no one was injured.
17.06.2009
A crane operator died yesterday in Florida, after his crane tipped over while lifting a fork truck mast, ejecting him from his cab.
15.06.2009
The 1,000 tonne Terex Demag TC2800 owned by Port Services of Scotland has finally gone to work in the UK.