New York City’s former chief cranes inspector pleaded guilty and took a two to six year prison plea yesterday.
24.03.2010
Japanese tyre manufacturer Yokohama will supply Liebherr with a new tyre for its all terrain cranes.
23.03.2010
German based slew ring and rotary joint manufacturer IMO is setting up a plant in South Carolina.
California based Smart-Rig Cranes has launched an ultra compact mini crane that weighs as little as 450kgs.
The UK’s HSE has issued a Safety Notice following a recent fatal accident in Scotland
Toyota Material Handling North America, the Aichi master distributor is restructuring its operations.
Manitex has won $8.0 million of new orders including $5.0 million for boom trucks in the USA and Middle East.
22.03.2010
Car scrappage schemes are highly popular, a company in the UK is offering a similar programme for scaffold towers.
Worldlift Industries has transformed itself over the past 9 months and is set to change it sname to Skako Lift.
21.03.2010
JCB launched two compact telehandlers, two compact telescopic boom loaders and a new Tier 4 engine yesterday.
19.03.2010
Balfour Beatty the international major contractor has recommended Nifty lift’s SIOPS as best practice.
Italian manufacturer Iteco, now part of Imer will launch three boom lifts at Bauma in April.
18.03.2010 1
CTE has delivered its first 62 metre B-Lift 620HR to Rome based Tecnoalt and Elevateur both of which are divisions of Venpa3 and who will share the machine.
18.03.2010
Genie founders Roger Brown and Ward Bushnell will speak at next week’s IPAF summit in place of Andy Studdert.
Liebherr has released the first photographs of its radical new City–All Terrain crane the LTC1045-3.1
German based aerial lift manufacturer H.A.B has unveiled a 100ft/33m platform height boom lift
Italian spider lift manufacturer Platform Basket will unveil its first trailer lifts at Bauma in April.
17.03.2010
A tower crane accident in Singapore yesterday has left one man dead and three injured.
UK based Kier Plant has promoted Peter Barrett to the role of operations director.
17.03.2010 1
Broshuis and Vestas are jointly developing new trailers to transport turbine components.
We received photos of an accident with a mobile gantry crane that occurred last week in the USA but where?
Wordsworth Holdings the construction equipment manufacturer owned by Duncan Wordsworth has called in the administrators.
16.03.2010 1
RSC has appointed Juan Corsillo as senior vice president, sales, marketing and corporate operations,
16.03.2010
This years IPAF Summit and awards dinner looks set to attract a record attendance
