Dutch aerial lift rental company has taken delivery of a second 53 metre Wumag WT530 truck mounted aerial work platform .
31.03.2009
UpRight powered access has appointed Alpe Slovakia as the distributor for its full aerial lift product range in Slovakia.
UK based aerial lift rental company AFI-Uplift, has appointed Richard Onslow as account manager for the south at AFI-Resale.
UK-based Street Crane Company has launched a new 25 tonne hoist.
IPAF will hold its rental company open meeting at this years Vertikal Days in June.
UK powered access and crane rental company, Peter Hird & Sons has appointed Allan Hemmings as managing director.
Our first death wish from Mexico where a man ignores several significant risks with his ladder to do… we are not quite sure.
German based Beyer Mietservice has added 15 more Maeda spider cranes to its fleet making it one of the largest in Europe.
30.03.2009
Ahern Rentals of Las Vegas has reported 2008 revenues up 12% while profits slumped 69% and 2009 got off to a poor start.
Dubai’s Roads & Transport Authority has fined a contractor Dh 200,000 ($54,000) fine following a crane accident in February 2008.
Socage has delivered six new 35 metre truck mounted lifts to Russia on Kamaz trucks.
Manitowoc has issued a warning that first quarter earnings may be 50% below estimates as it sells the Enodis ice business.
Kennards Hire of Australia has acquired Complete Hire of Redcliffe near Brisbane, Queensland.
The tour of the Guinness brewery on Dublin on Wednesday evening, prior to the IPAF summit, is currently oversubscribed, there is a waiting list.
29.03.2009
UK based aerial lift company, Elavation has taken delivery of 20 new Skyjack scissor lifts.
Australian mining company BHP Billiton Iron Ore has taken delivery of a 450 tone Grove GMK7450 All Terrain crane.
Loader crane manufacturer Terex Atlas has been transferred from Terex Construction to Terex Cranes.
UK based tower crane rental company WD Bennetts, has been found guilty of health & safety breaches following the death of two men in a 2005 tower crane accident.
28.03.2009
A crawler crane toppled over in Grand Rapids, Michigan last night, taking the power out in the local area.
Tanfield, owner of UpRight and Snorkel, has announced that its North American venture, Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. Corp, will locate its new assembly plant in Kansas City, Missouri.
27.03.2009
A tower crane collapse onto a block of apartments in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, on Wednesday killing a mother and child and injuring 10 others.
Skyjack has appointed two more new North American telehandler dealers, West Coast Equipment to handle its Zoom Boom range and MacAllister for its VR line.
The Queensland Mines Inspectorate has released a safety alert, warning operators of the risks associated with aerial work platform attachements falling from telehandlers
We now have photos of Liebherr’s new four axle mobile self erecting tower crane, the MK88, which replaces the MK80.
