A meeting of the creditors of Quigley United Kingdom Ltd was held on July 21 with no creditors present. Could this be due to the fact that they were unaware of the meeting until afterwards?
03.08.2006
CITB-Construction Skills has announced a faster way to obtain a CSCS card called Skills Direct.
02.08.2006
Jim Pearson has been appointed as the operational director for A-Plant Powered Access, following Steve Shaughnessy’s recent promotion.
A-Plant, the UK rental business of the Ashtead group, is to spend over £32 million to upgrade and expand its powered access fleet.
Terex Demag has unveiled the narrow track chassis for its CC2800-1 crawler crane.
01.08.2006
Ainscough Crane Hire Ltd has opened a new depot, its 24th, in Cambridge.
Paus has appointed GGR Glass-Unic as the UK distributor for its Skyworker, self erecting aluminium trailer crane.
JLG Industries has today announced two senior appointments, including the promotion of Craig Paylor
JLG is set to produce six telehanders for Caterpillar at its facility in Belgium
The Construction Clients’ Group in the UK, has backed plans by the Major Contractors Group to only allow approved card holders on its members sites from the end of the year.
Today Ainscough Training celebrates its fifth anniversary today and the 10,000th person it has trained.
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Palazzani has launched two new 48 metre spider lifts, establishing two distinct new product ranges.
31.07.2006
Terex-Demag is currrently developing the AC1000/9 - a new 1000 tonne telescopic All-Terrain crane.
Oshkosh Truck has acquired Iowa Mold Tooling - IMT, the American loader crane producer.
Cleanaway has taken delivery of a new Sennebogen 305MH Multihandler for its Northumberland wharf waste transfer station in London.
Surrey-based Gleeson Construction Services Ltd has been fined almost £50,000 after mortar tubs fell from a crane injuring a worker below.
A new publication from the Health and Safety Executive aims to raise awareness of the risks of shift work.
JLG is currently going through an extended test and evaluation process for a new micro lift using a telescopic steel box section mast type lift mechanism.
29.07.2006
Terex crane sales rose by almost 28 percent in the first half of 2006 to $809 million.
Genie sales jump 50% to over a $ billion Terex Aerial Work Platforms, the Genie aerial lift and telescopic handler business has reported first half 2006 revenues of over a $ billion.
AFI Aerial Platforms has opened a depot in Bridgwater, Somerset,
The Lavendon Group has appointed Malcolm Bowers, as a consultant to support its new regional acquisitions in the UK.
28.07.2006
Following Hewden’s July 20 announcement that it will change its crane strategy and focus on cranes under 100 tonnes, we can now confirm that an order has been placed with Terex Demag for ten cranes between 30 and 100 tonnes.
An inquest jury has delivered verdicts of accidental death for two men who fell to their deaths after an inexperienced workman loosened the bolts to a 30 metre tower crane.
