Specialist road-rail manufacturer Rexquote has delivered the first unit in an order for five of its Accessrailer-17s aerial lifts.
05.02.2006
The IPAF AGM will be held on April 4th, at which time new council members will be elected, new members re being sought.
04.02.2006
David Slack and his family have purchased the shares in Nationwide crane hire Ltd owned by the Dickey family, giving them 100% of the business. At the same time the company has invested £8 million in new cranes.
03.02.2006
ZF has delivered its 5,000th AS Tronic crane transmission, five years after its launch. The unit was installed in a Liebherr LTM1200 All Terrain crane.
Grove launched its two latest cranes, the 80 tonne GMK 4080-1 and 220 tonne GMK 5220 to 110 international dealers and customers in Paris yesterday.
The CPA, which represents UK rental companies, is holding an open meeting of its Tower crane interest group on February 28th
02.02.2006
Manitowoc has reported its 2005 results, which show crane revenues up 30% while doubling its operating income.
01.02.2006
The January February issue of Cranes&Access is now available for reading on line or downloading.
Harsco, owner of SGB, Hünnebeck and Patent scaffold has seen full year operating income in its access business, rise by 70% on sales up 11%.
More than 27,000 visitors logged on to Vertikal.net in January, recording over 831,000 hits.
Manitowoc crane care has started taking steps to ensure that its customers do not suffer from the problems at Samuel Walkers.
Sennebogen has announced what it is calling the 608 Multicrane. The new product combines the features of a telehandler, crane, platform and loader.
31.01.2006
David Symon, the crane and plant man associated with a string of business failures is now selling the used cranes from the Nigg offshore yard.
In case of any difficulties in obtaining Grove or Grove Manlift parts in the UK, following the difficulties at Samuel Walkers, they can be ordered from the Manitowoc parts operation in Sunderland.
Haulotte has appointed Chris Koch to head up its North American distribution operation and Stefano Di Santo to head its Italian subsidiary.
30.01.2006
United Rentals special committee investigating the transactions that led to the dismissal of president and CFO John Milne last year, has reported and the company has acted on its recommendations.
Haulotte has issued preliminary figures for 2005, indicating revenues of €385 million, an increase of 44% on 2004.
28.01.2006
Manitou unveiled plans to launch a 30 metre, 360 degree telehandler, at Intermat this April.
27.01.2006
The UK Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has presented a petition liquidate two Norfolk scaffolding companies in the public interest.
Lourdain takes over at Haulotte France and LEV.
The hottest new product at this week's Hire show, is without doubt, the Pop Up from NSG, a tiny push round scissor lift
The London Hire show opened today to a busy first day with a record number of Access exhibitors.
25.01.2006
Daniel Damart, currently responsible for Haulotte France and acting managing director of LEV has decided to leave the company.
Samuel Walker & Sons, the UK based sales and service company has filed for administration today
24.01.2006
