A reader in India has sent us a YouTube video which is amusingly entitled OSHA training film from Bombay.
24.05.2012
Ruthmann has appointed Time Ibérica as its distributor for Spain and Portugal for its truck mounted lifts.
Romanian access rental company T&T Solutions has been declared insolvent and a trustee appointed.
Skanska UK has reported that is first job with an on-site automated rental centre has proved a success.
23.05.2012
Three window cleaners are lucky to be alive after one side of a suspended platform slipped two storeys.
A teenager was crushed yesterday while unloading a truck at a Brisbane school in Queensland, Australia.
Singapore based sales and rental group JP Nelson Equipment is to acquire Antar Cranes Services
Isoli has appointed Automechanical Plant as a distributor for its vehicle mounted aerial lifts.
Manitowoc has launched two new Dongyue truck crane models at an open day at its facility in China.
Vertikal Days is just five weeks away, the space is all but sold out and the event is looking to break records.
23.05.2012 2
Spotted by a reader visiting Cuba recently, a wooden freeform scaffold that looks quite prickly.
22.05.2012
IPAF has announced the first speaker for the Europlatform 2012 in Edinburgh in September – Norty Turner.
A quick thinking crane operator may have helped save a woman’s life yesterday in South Carolina.
22.05.2012 1
Terex has acquired the shares of Italian luffing jib tower crane manufacturer Recom that it does not already own.
Scaffolding UK has opened a new branch in Hampshire operating under the name of Hampshire Scaffolding UK.
Under-bridge inspection specialist Moog has delivered a custom lift for the Bucharest to Constanta highway.
A New York judge has put an end to an attempt by tower crane erector William Rapetti to get his licenses back.
21.05.2012
Load Systems International has opened a UK division, Load Systems UK, based in Aberdeen, Scotland.
For many years Irish based Height for Hire/Easi UpLifts has used a little man in its marketing, he now has a name.
Palfinger Platforms has supplied three P 220B truck mounted platforms to Oslo Liftutleie, in Norway.
The on-going legal battle between Valla cranes and JMG and its owners has now been settled.
A crane operator was stabbed to death on Saturday by a rival for cutting rental rates in Coimbatore, India.
20.05.2012
Ian James of Bronto has successfully completed his trek to the top of Britain’s highest mountain for charity.
20.05.2012 2
A man fell to his death on Saturday at the Port of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia.