Tony Havercroft is to leave Genie at the end of November, and join UpLift, the Wakefield based access rental company, as sales director
19.10.2005
John Valla the president of Valla s.p.a the Italian crane company, died yesterday in the USA.
13.09.2005
United Rentals has terminated its president and CFO John Milne “with cause” following the expiry of a 30 day warning, after he refused to answer questions regarding accounting practices in prior years.
20.08.2005
Bob Buehler, a veteran of Snorkel International and a well known character in the aerial lift industry, passed away on Tuesday morning August 16th..
18.08.2005
Wayne A Nicarry, the last remaining founder member of Grove manufacturing Company, died on May 29th aged 85.
08.07.2005
David Price, chairman of Lavendon, Europe’s largest aerial lift rental company has announced that he will retire and leave the company later this year.
05.07.2005
Ron Defeo, chairman and CEO of Terex has resigned from the United Rentals board of directors, in order to avoid a conflict of interest.
27.06.2005
JLG has announced an “organizational alignment” that is intended to grow its service operations, diversify its sales outlets and increase the focus on its Six Sigma programme. .
21.06.2005
Malcolm Early, currently European marketing communications manager at Manitowoc, is set to join JLG as its European marketing director
26.05.2005
JLG has announced that Charles O. Wood, III has retired from the Company's Board of Directors, effective May 20, 2005.
23.05.2005
UK Access industry pioneer Mike Evans, has set up as a consultant following his retirement from his full time post at Lavendon.
20.05.2005
The Lavendon Group plc, Europes largest access rental company, has appointed a new Non Executive Director.
04.05.2005
SmartEquip, the American based e-commerce company has appointed Michel Petitjean as MD of its new European operation
25.04.2005
Ian James previously owner of Delta Rentals, the Manlift Toucan dealer for the UK, has joined Access Platform Sales Ltd (APS) as General Manager.
06.04.2005
The new general manager for JLG UK is Simon Cracknell, he takes up his new post this week.
05.04.2005
David White, formerly Vice President Engineering at UpRight Inc, has joined the team at MEC as head of engineering.
09.03.2005
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
Manitou is announcing today the appointment of Russon Access as the Construction distributor for its ManiAccess range. Effectively this means that Russon will be responsible for selling Manitou boom lifts to UK rental companies.
08.02.2005
JLG Industries has announced the appointment of Thomas Capo and Kim Foster to its Board of Directors, expanding JLG’s Board to ten members.
27.01.2005
Cramo has appointed Erik van Leeuwenstijn as president of Cramo Netherlands and announced new presidents for Cramo Finland and Cramo Latvia.
18.01.2005
Manitou North America has announced plans to reinforce its sales and marketing team in the USA as part of its plan to increase its market share.
10.01.2005
Jim Williamson, the New Zealand born engineer who has worked in the European crane and access industry for 25 years is heading back to New Zealand
21.12.2004
Over 700 delegates from Manitou dealers and affiliates around the world attended a two day celebration this week of the production of the companies 200,000th rough terrain forklift.
12.11.2004
We have received the sad news that Piero Pagliero, one of the pioneers of the truck mounted platform industry has died
12.09.2004