Oktopus (UK) the UK distributor for Klaas aluminium cranes and Oktopus suction lifting devices has appointed an administrator.
23.06.2009
SEV (US) has teamed up with Altec to produce an all electric truck mounted boom lift.
With this weeks Vertikal Days getting underway this week in the UK, our news coverage may not be quite as rapid as usual.
R2 Access is auctioning an Eazzi Lift Mini, push around scissor lift for charity at this weeks Vertikal Days.
Ainscough Crane Hire, the UK’s largest crane rental company has confirmed that it has ordered 20 Liebherr LTM1150-6.1 150 tonne All Terrain cranes.
22.06.2009
Two men were arrested in South Wales yesterday after staging an early morning father’s day demonstration on the jib of a 35 metre tower crane.
Dutch based heavy lifting company Mammoet has unveiled plans for a new 100,000t/m plus mobile crane.
21.06.2009
Kennards Hire of Australia has moved into Port Douglas, Queensland, with the acquisition of Coral Coast Hire.
UK based Hi Reach has taken delivery of its fourth big Holland lift scissor this year, a 34 metre Rough Terrain.
The first sentencing has been handed down following the guilty verdict for WD Bennett and subsidiary Eurolift for the fatal tower crane collapse in 2003.
20.06.2009
Alfred Wyss has come out of retirement to head up Swiss crane and access company Stirnimann, following the departure of MD Lorenzo Cassani
19.06.2009
Italian truck mounted lift and recovery truck company Isoli, will make its UK/Ireland debut at Vertikal Days next week.
Snorkel is asking owners of SR2770 compact Rough Terrain scissor lifts built between 2000 and 2006 to inspect their machines for cracks in the drive motor shafts.
Tanfield has appointed Jeremy Wooding OBE as an independent non-executive director.
Belgium based crane and heavy lift company, Sarens has acquired California based heavy lift company, Rigging International.
A 55 year old man died on Wednesday at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, after he was flung from his boom lift.
A 21 year old window cleaner fell to his death on Wednesday when his suspended platform collapsed.
18.06.2009
Ashtead, owner of Sunbelt in the USA and A-Plant in the UK has issued it full year results and said that rental markets have stabilised.
Several of you have written in over yesterdays report on the crane that tipped in New Zealand, asking if a counterweight slab was missing.
Thermoil the battery preserver and recovery solutions company has extended its distribution with the appointment of Nifty Australia and South Africa.
17.06.2009
Spotted in South West France last week, a lifting operation with an excavator as cars pass below.
Italian truck mounted lift manufacturer CMC recently unveiled its new PLA212, the first of which has been delivered to a local customer
A truck crane tipped over this morning in a busy street in Dunedin, New Zealand, fortunately no one was injured.
SkyKing, the Wumag Palfinger distributor for England will display a 103 metre truck mounted lift at Vertikal Days next week.
16.06.2009
