We have the first pictures of the new 65t Tadano-Faun ATF 65G-4 its third “G” model, a group of UK crane people were first to see it during a recent plant visit
20.06.2005
The first Amco Veba 950 5S crane to be sold in the UK, is going to one of Northern Irelands leading crawler crane hirers, O'Kane Bros.
Terex crane sales increased by 43 percent and Genie aerial sales by 60 percent, but margins have been squeezed by material cost increases.
31.05.2005
Malcolm Early, currently European marketing communications manager at Manitowoc, is set to join JLG as its European marketing director
26.05.2005
Terex Demag and Liebherr Ehingen have announced that they have settled their dispute over the superlift patents and given each other rights on the designs.
25.05.2005
Kobelco cranes recently completed its first full year as an independent entity within the Kobe steel group. It has now published its results, plans and forecasts.
24.05.2005
Terex Corp, the owner of Terex-Demag and Genie, has released a statement regarding its first quarter results. Revenues are expected to be up by around 35 percent to $1.4 billion. The company expects to finally release its numbers towards the end of the month.
15.05.2005
Palfinger, the market leading truck loading crane manufacturer has reported a 210 percent rise in pretax profits for the first quarter of 2005.
12.05.2005
German crane rental company Schmidbauer, completed the task of replacing 18km of pylons in the middle of frozen marshland within four weeks
04.05.2005
Kato parts & service the UK arm of Kranlyft, has changed its name to Kranlyft UK
26.04.2005
The Böcker Group, parent company of Albert Böcker and Robert Böcker, has purchased the passenger and material hoist business of fellow German producer Steinweg.
An 80 tonne Tadano Faun ATF 80-4 is dwarfed by one of Hamburgs massive Kocks dock cranes
20.04.2005
A marble and granite supplier has been fined following the death of an employee due to lack of a lift plan and improper slinging/securing of the load.
18.04.2005
The Smopyc show in Zaragossa, Spain last month saw a turnout of 85,000 visitors. Macarena Garcia of Spanish crane and Access magazine Movicarga sends us a few news bites.
08.04.2005
Two contractors escaped lightly with a £23,000 fine after an employee died after a fall from a ladder while accessing a scaffold.
07.04.2005
Terex has confirmed the $30 million order from AmQuip for Terex-Peiner tower cranes.
24.03.2005
Tadano held its International Sales Training and Distributor Meeting 2005 in Germany at the Tadano Faun facility in Lauf.
23.03.2005
After placing a $30 million order with Potain earlier this week, Amquip has placed a further order valued at $30 million with Terex for a wide range of its Peiner tower cranes.
18.03.2005
Ainscough the UK’s largest crane hire company has purchased Vanguard Industrial and Alkron export services from administrators KPMG.
10.03.2005
Locatelli the Italian crane producer has appointed Peter Hird, the Hull based crane and access company as its distributor for the UK
23.02.2005
We interview Søren Jensen, managing director of BMS, one of Northern Europes largest crane and access rental company's. He had a good deal to say, particularly abut the crane rental business.
14.02.2005
A tower crane collapsed on a job site at Durrington High School in Worthing, West Sussex, at around 10:30 am this morning killing two workmen.
11.02.2005
After a period of over seven months, Maxim Crane Works/Anthony Crane, the world’s largest crane rental company, has officially emerged from Chapter 11 protection under the US bankruptcy code.
02.02.2005
The first of the new Terex-Demag 55 tonne AC55 City cranes have arrived in the UK.
20.01.2005
