Manitowoc has appointed Ted Thomas as director of Crane Care customer service for Manitowoc cranes in the Americas.
15.06.2006
Tim Robinson, finance director of the Tanfield Group the new owner of UpRight, has resigned and been replaced by Charles Brooks.
14.06.2006
Certex UK has been appointed as main UK distributor for Demag Cranes and Components Ltd taking over 300 smaller accounts.
13.06.2006
120 delegates from aerial lift rental companies and end users attended the first TABS work platform safety day in Frankfurt today.
Liebherr has opened a new maritime cargo handling production facility in the port of Rostock, north-eastern Germany.
Demag Cranes, the port and industrial crane maker, is in the final stages of an initial public offering to raise up to €500 million, that should lead to a Frankfurt listing, possibly as soon as June 20.
A vehicle mounted platform operator fell to his death last week after his platform was struck by a truck, which then continued on its way.
12.06.2006
The Tanfield group has secured a £2 million grant to move UpRight production from Ireland to Washington in the North East of England.
10.06.2006
Restoration work has begun on a large Titan crane on Clydebank in Glasgow, HAKI has provided a number of access solutions for the project.
09.06.2006
Manitowoc has made a £975 million bid for Enodis plc a British based food equipment business, previously known as S&W Berisford..
08.06.2006
Terex Demag has delivered four first article test cranes to the US Marine Corps, 130 further units will be ordered if the units pass the test programme.
VP, owner of UK Forks, one of Europe’s largest telehandler rental companies, has reported full year revenues up 10% to £99.4 million.
Ashtead, owner of A-Plant and Sunbelt saw its shares plummet after a large institutional investor cashed out. Goldman Sachs has moved in picking up almost 6% of the company.
Palazzani is formally appointing PASS as its UK/Ireland distributor, cementing a relationship that dates back over 13 years.
We have had an urgent request from a company in central UK looking for crane drivers, and are finally looking at adding a recruitment section to Vertikal.Net.
07.06.2006
It seems that our coverage of the Flying Carpet truck mounted scissor lift has spurred a number of you to send us other examples.
The HSE says that today's mobile phone culture is putting tradesmen's lives at risk. A new Height Aware campaign highlights the dangers.
06.06.2006
Liebherr has officially started production and sales of its telehandler machines.
Platform Sales and Hire Ltd has launched a new vehicle mounted scissor lift, dubbed the Flying Carpet.
05.06.2006
The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) in Malaysia has increased its container handling capacity to six million TEUs following the addition of three, new-generation cranes.
Insul 8 a leading player in harbour crane electrification and data transfer systems has changed its name to Conductix
We will close the next Cranes&Access, our dealer guide issue, in three weeks, if you have any input, now is the time to send it in.
A second Rough Terrain crane tipped over on the Interstate 25 near Colorado Springs, less than five weeks after a man was killed doing the same job.
04.06.2006
MEC Europe has appointed H.A.B. Service Centre GmbH as a dealer in Germany.
02.06.2006
