Manitowoc has appointed Scott Keckler as vice president Crane Care, Americas.
15.01.2011
An All Terrain crane tipped over, yesterday at an old phosphate plant in north Manatee County, Florida.
IPAF has ‘flagged’ the fact that the late Nigel Pargetter in the British radio drama The Archers should have used a MEWP.
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Hamburg based AFI GmbH has appointed an administrator under Germany’s insolvency laws.
14.01.2011
UK rental company Hewden has announced a £20 million investment in new construction equipment.
Cargotec has received an order from the port of Cartagena for 24 rubber tyred gantry and two ship to shore cranes.
Link Belt will unveil an all new 100 tonne telescopic crawler crane – the TCC1100 at Conexpo in March.
Comansa has delivered its first tower cranes in India, four units from its Chinese joint venture - Comansa Jie
13.01.2011
JCB has appointed Evansville, Indiana based Black Equipment as a new dealer for parts of Indiana and Kentucky.
A 50 metre high tower crane toppled over killing its operator in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday.
UK based aerial lift rental company Lavendon, has rejected yesterday’s joint approach from Ashtead and TVH worth 115p per share.
IPAF technical officer Gil Male is retiring this year and the federation is looking for a replacement.
Ashtead has joined TVH in its bid to take over Lavendon, with the two splitting the business between them.
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12.01.2011
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The Takeover Panel has ruled that TVH must decide if it will make a firm offer for Lavendon by Feb 8.
A runaway container crane on a wharf in Darwin Australia crashed into a crawler crane earlier this week.
UK based Crowland cranes has purchased a new 220 tonne Tadano-Faun ATF220G-5, its largest crane.
11.01.2011
Snorkel has appointed Vibro Tech, a division of Interprima, as its distributor for Romania.
Manitou and Terex have extended their supply agreement to include Genie slab electric scissors.
Finnish based Cramo has acquired Theisen, giving it new locations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Hungary
Ashtead’s US subsidiary, Sunbelt Rentals has acquired Empire scaffolding for $38 million in cash.
Ritchie Bros achieved a new record for crane sales last year, selling 1,870 cranes to 1,350 buyers from 63 countries
10.01.2011
Irish based rental company Dromad Hire has purchased a number of Hinowa spider lifts.
