Facelift of the UK has developed a hovercraft based boom lift for offshore wind farm maintenance applications.
31.03.2005
April
UpRight has recently shipped its first big boom from the new Mexican production plant and yet the company pulled booms from its Conexpo stand.
Versalift has added further production capacity to its Burton Latimer site to meet strong ongoing demand for its range of vehicle-mounted platforms.
30.03.2005
Laho Equipement Frances third largest rental company has been sold to Barclays Private Equity by its venture capital owner, Industri Kapital, for €110 million.
29.03.2005
The Highways Agency may recall contractors to inspect and possibly remedy a number of bridges and gantries in southern England where defective concrete might have been used.
Italian producer Palazzani is launching a telescopic handler created from a front end loader, with dual telescopic arms, at Samoter in May.
Italian articulated truck loader producer, Effer has delivered an order for 15 special trucks with cranes for the Iraq-Syrian oil pipeline.
28.03.2005
Terex has confirmed the $30 million order from AmQuip for Terex-Peiner tower cranes.
24.03.2005
Conexpo 2005, held last week in Las Vegas attracted 124,220 visitors, a new record and 21,220 international visitors, also a record,
Tadano Ltd. held its International Sales Training and Distributor Meeting 2005 in Germany at the Tadano Faun GmbH location. In Lauf.
23.03.2005
Kalmar, the reachstacker and container handler producer has taken over Peinemann Kalmar in Holland.
The date for the compulsory fitting of digital tachometers to commercial vehicles has been extended to 2007.
Hitachi Sumitomo has announced that it will launch the SCX400T telescopic crawler crane at this years SED in May.
Four months on from the MBI and Independent Access is investing over a million pounds in upgrading the condition of its remaining fleet.
22.03.2005
The Vertikal Press is moving its UK base form Brighton to Brackley in the midlands. We are also recuiting a new Editor for Cranes&Access.
Churchill Scaffolding Ltd has been fined £4,000 plus £4,696 costs following an accident where one of its scaffolders suffered multiple injuries from a five metre fall.
Ashtead group the parent of A-Plant in the UK and Sunbelt in North America, has agreed a $675 million (£360 million) five year revolving asset based credit line with Lloyds TSB Commercial finance.
21.03.2005
Haulotte has confirmed the 30 percent increase in revenues reported in January with a 300 percent improvement in operating income, which toped 10 percent while net profit after tax and exceptionals posted a 540 percent increase.
A new company has been formed to hold the merged Denka lift A/S and Falck Schmidt A/S businesses and will be known as World Lift Industries A/S.
We end our on site reporting from Conexpo and Las Vegas with a few images and comments from the last day and a half.
19.03.2005
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
The new UK Work At Height Regultions will come into force on April sixth 2005, the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) announced yesterday.
Ward Bushnell, one off the previous owners of Genie, has named the date for his long rumoured departure from the Company.
