Panther Platform Rentals’ has opened its new national service centre, for the repair and refurbishment of aerial lifts.
01.11.2006
A man died this morning in Manchester after he was thrown from his work platform after it was hit by a double decker bus.
A 100 metre Ruthmann trailer mounted boom lift has arrived in the UK where it is booked on a number of projects.
October saw another jump in the readership of Vertikal.Net achieving a new all tie record of 1.36 million hits and over 47,000 visitors.
Strong winds toppled a 200 ton Link Belt lattice truck crane in Portland Maine on Sunday.
Easi UpLifts, the international arm of Irish based Height for Hire, has purchased premises near Banbury in central England.
31.10.2006
Omme Lift is preparing to start work on an extension to its production facility in Sdr Omme, which will almost double the usable covered space.
Powered Access Sales and Service will provide a full harness and adjustable lanyard as standard on all new boom lifts
Certex has opened a new regional distribution centre in Aberdeen, targeted at improving its lifting gear service to the offshore market.
The Platform Company sponsored employee Lindsey Lewis in a first time parachute jump in aid of charity.
30.10.2006
RK, the Finnish rental group that includes Cramo-Cat Rental stores, is to change its name to Cramo Oy at the end of the year.
Finning the Caterpillar dealer for the UK has agreed to supply R Hunt with CAT brand telehandlers, the first order, for 30 units, has already started to ship.
Speedy Hire, the UK’s tool hire company, has acquired Lifting Gear Hire Ltd one of the largest specialist lifting gear rental companies.
Late last week we had a number of calls saying that Malcolm Bowers, the well known UK access entrepreneur, planned to start a new business.
UpRight powered access is moving into its new home today the massive Vigo building in the UK.
City Lifting, the UK crane hire company, has purchased most of Vanson’s tower crane rental fleet.
29.10.2006
A train struck a boom lift near Melbourne Australia on Friday throwing the operator out of the basket, seriously injuring him.
Nacanco the Spanish based, Italian owned lift and handler rental group is opening three more depots in Italy.
28.10.2006
A new UK government standard appears to mandate that all those working on Public contracts in England must carry training cards.
Maeda book first six orders for the new 405: Bluelift set to launch in the UK: world’s biggest loader crane, more details on the Leader Jet 200.
27.10.2006
SAIE is proving a challenge, with so many crane, access and telehandler exhibitors to see here are a few more glimpses.
26.10.2006
UK crane rental company, Crane Services has placed an order for a 1,000 tonne LTM 11000-9.1 All Terrain crane with 100 metre Boom.
Terex group sales rose by over 22 percent in the first nine months of 2006 to $5.6 billion. Full year forecast increased to $7.6 billion.
25.10.2006
Terex Crane division increased its revenues for the first nine months of 2006 by 34 percent to $1.23 billion. Availability is now touching eight months.
