Socage Germany has appointed Larissa Vormann as marketing manager
13.10.2026
UK rental company Lee Lifting has taken delivery of a 100t Liebherr LTM 1100-5.3 AT crane, the third company in the UK to receive one
12.10.2026
UK rental group Vp - owner of UK Forks, MEP and Brandon Hire Station – has issued a first half trading statement
Rental software provider MCS Rental Software has added 23 additional telematics providers to its Telematics Hub
UK Access industry veteran Malcolm Kitt has completed a wing walk to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society
UK rental company SkyReach has appointed Sam Bennett as business development manager
Finnish rental company HRK has taken delivery of 10 Axolift Manulift 200/4 low level push-around work platforms - the first Axolifts in Finland
09.10.2026
Franna Australia has appointed Mark Salmon as regional sales manager for New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania
UK rental company Dewsbury & Proud has taken delivery of a 40t Liebherr LTM 1040-2.1 All Terrain
US rental company Herc Rentals has appointed former RSC CEO Erik Olsson to its board of directors
08.10.2026
Platformers Days opens its doors in Karlsruhe, Germany, today. A team from Vertikal was on site yesterday for the build up
Turkish owned US based aerial lift and telehandler company AXCS has appointed Nic Dykman as southeast regional sales manager
On Tuesday a mobile self-erecting tower crane collapsed on a site in Ipsach, Biel/Bienne in the Swiss canton of Bern, with the jib coming down across a railway line and a road
We have received the sad news that UK crane industry veteran George Davis has died
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US based Patriot Crane & Rigging has taken delivery of its first 250t Tadano AC 5.250L-2 All Terrain
UK rental company AW Plant Services has taken delivery of the UK’s first 150t SAC1500E All Terrain crane
07.10.2026
German rental company Wiesecker has taken delivery of 20 Socage truck mounted platforms
TMTO, a maritime operator serving the Tuamotu archipelago in French Polynesia has ordered a 60t Liebherr LS-C 60 hydraulic luffing ship crane
US rental and sales company Kitchen's Crane & Equipment has taken delivery of a 400t Enerpac hydraulic gantry and a 15t Hoist forklift plus a Scheuerle SPMT
Yama Saha - owner of German access equipment dealer Sahalift - has acquired the name, trademark and intellectual property rights of insolvent Danish aerial work platform manufacturer Ommelift
06.10.2026
The Port of Helsingborg in Sweden has ordered its first two Kalmar all electric reachstackers
Foster Cranes has been appointed as exclusive UK dealer for Zoomlion mobile cranes
The deadline for this year's Cranes & Access UK & Ireland Top Rental Fleet report is fast approaching - make sure you don't miss out!
A man died after coming into contact with overhead power lines while using an aerial work platform at a food processing plant in La Calera, near Valparaiso northwest of Santiago, Chile
