An electrical retailer in Brighton, near Melbourne, Australia, which was closed due to a bad fire has now been hit by a tipping crane.
02.02.2009
Two more UK crane rental companies have switched tyre suppliers to Double Coin tyres which are produced in China.
01.02.2009
Vertikal.Net achieved new readership records in January in terms of total visitors, pages viewed and bandwidth consumed.
Harsco, owner of SGB and Hünnebeck has appointed Richard Sullivan as vice president of business transformation worldwide.
30.01.2009
Aichi has begun shipping its new 40/45ft crawler mounted telescopic boom lifts that it unveiled at APEX.
JLG has reported a 40% drop in revenues for its first fiscal quarter 2008/2009, to the end of December, compared to the same period last year.
The UK Health & Safety Executive has decided to go ahead with an official register of tower cranes
29.01.2009
Manitowoc Crane Group has said that it could cut around 22% of its to workforce in 2009.
Eurotank Environmental has won the 2008 Health and Safety award at the Association of Petroleum Explosives Administration, for its Pyroban modified Niftylift 90s
Two UK rail maintenance companies have failed in their appeal against almost £500,000 of fines for the death of a man while loading an aerial lift.
Tech Ops/Sevcon, the producer of motor control systems for aerial lifts and forktrucks has seen a 33% drop in first quarter revenues.
Eazzi Lifts the UK based manufacturer of push around scissor lifts has appointed R2 Access as its UK distributor.
Manitowoc crane sales in 2008 were up almost 22% to a new record of $3.9 billion, narrowly missing $4 billion, due to a flat fourth quarter.
Manitou, the French based telehandler and aerial lift manufacturer, has reported final full year revenues for 2008 up by 1.4% to €1.26 billion.
28.01.2009
Bravi UK has taken on the distribution of a range of push around lifts that it is marketing under the Eddie lift brand.
The Spider division of SafeWorks, has promoted Steve Cabral to industrial sales representative for its Eastern region.
Dubai International Airport has purchased an Oil&Steel Eagle S4230 truck platform for its maintenance fleet.
Keep a look out for a Niftlift HR 12 that was stolen in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire last night
Gabriele Valli is the new sales manager at Italian equipment specialist Isoli Spa having moved from CTE Spa
Cramo has acquired the rental operations of Lidingö Hyrcenter, the Stockholm based rental company.
Port operator DW World has signed a $340 million (£243 million) deal with Shanghai-based equipment firm ZPMC.
JLG has introduced a North American Fluid Analysis Program for owners of JLG telehandlers and aerial work platforms.
Dutch rental company Gjaltema has purchased five more Niftylift trailer mounted boom lifts as part of a fleet expansion.
27.01.2009
Martin Holmgren, 41, has been appointed as vice president, fleet management, replacing Mats Stenholm in the senior management team.
