The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has concluded the prosecution of Conder Structures, following the death of a 16-year-old ground worker in Lutterworth, Leicestershire.
06.01.2004
MIC Corporation, Japan’s largest crane rental company, has taken delivery of two 1250 USton (1134 tonne) capacity Demag CC8800s.
05.12.2003
Mike Williams, principal inspector for Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a statement following the recent Canary Wharf tower crane collpase inquest at St Pancras Coroner’s Court, London.
18.11.2003
Terex has announced the retirement of Fil Filipov as CEO of Terex Cranes, his son Steve Filipov will take over as president
14.11.2003
Terex Corporation in the US has announced a 50 per cent jump in revenues for the nine months to 30 September, 2003.
27.10.2003
Hewden Stuart faces massive damages following the Canary Wharf tower crane tragedy - legal argument has focussed on interpretation of the CPA's hire contract conditions.
08.08.2003
Production of Peiner tower cranes is to move to the Demag facility in Zweibrücken, Germany and not the Comedil plant in Fontanafredda, Italy as originally stated
30.07.2003
Bridon Ropes Limited has announced the closure of its wire rope factory in Retford, Nottinghamshire, effective from March 2004.
30.06.2003
The crane divisions of Hitachi Construction Machinery and Sumitomo Heavy Industries have merged to form Hitachi Sumitomo
26.06.2003
UK crane hire company Marsh Plant has taken delivery of the last six Tadano TL250E truck cranes
23.06.2003
John L Grove, founder of Grove and JLG, has died at the age of 82.
19.06.2003
Nearly 200 mobile and tower crane industry experts descended on the Thistle Tower Hotel, London recently for the Crane Safety 2003 conference. C&A reports
18.06.2003
US-based heavy lift specialist Lampson International has taken delivery of a new Manitowoc Model 18000 crawler crane.
13.06.2003
There was a lot for Intermat visitors to see – full reports will appear later, but here are some first impressions from the Vertikal.net team of reporters.
23.05.2003
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has sponsored research and offered its full support to Drilling Systems UK for the development of a training simulator for offshore crane operators.
03.04.2003
The managing directors of Hewden and Ainscough both change in a dramatic week in UK crane hire
25.02.2003
The HSE has released a discussion paper on the safe use of ‘external’ climbing frames on tower cranes.
17.02.2003
US based crane distribution and rental company Gleason Cranes is shutting its doors after 50 years in business
05.02.2003
Manitowoc is gearing up its crawler crane sales activities in Europe - two cranes have now arrived in Germany
17.01.2003
The new owner of Baldwins' mobile cranes is Ainscough crane hire – this gives the company a total fleet size of around 650 Cranes
29.11.2002
The official deadline for anybody wanting to make an offer for Baldwins has now passed and one of the most prominent offers is from a management buyout team headed by three senior managers writes Tim Whiteman
21.11.2002
Senior management appointments at Manitowoc have, for the first time, included Grove personnel
05.09.2002
Terex is back, and back with a bang. Buying Genie and Demag puts it firmly in the upper reaches of the lifting industry. Tim Whiteman talked to Ron DeFeo, president of Terex Corporation, about his plans
02.09.2002
Baldwins has filed its US subsidiaries under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code.
28.08.2002