A delivery truck hit a bridge near Poole in Dorset on Thursday, ripping its crane off and dumping it in the road.
02.06.2007
Link Belt has announced a $24 million expansion at its Kentucky HQ, which will add 120 jobs and more crane production capacity.
01.06.2007
Window cleaning companies in Holland have become major powered access users, a recent window cleaning show attracted 60 aerial lift exhibits.
Plans to build another new terminal at London’s Heathrow airport have been given the go ahead.
Six Greenpeace activists have occupied one of Mammoet’s MSD heavy lift cranes this week in Finland.
Seaway Heavy Lifting has ordered a 5,000 tonne revolving heavy lift ship crane for delivery in 2010.
This years crane safety conference opens in London on Monday, it is still possible to book a place.
Power Climber has appointed Piet Theunis as regional sales manager in Belgium.
Unions and employers have reached a tentative agreement ending the crane operators strike in Ontario.
31.05.2007
A man working in Detroit is seriously injured tonight after falling from a scissor lift
Maxim Cranes Works is to stage a ‘Dutch Auction’ to buy back up to 25% of its outstanding shares.
Motorists had a lucky escape yesterday after a loader crane boom was ripped off as the truck passed under a low bridge in Elderslie, Scotland.
Riwal, the Dutch based crane, access and telehandler rental company has sold its crane rental business to Sarens.
30.05.2007
Vanson Cranes has launched a new hydraulic luffing tower crane
Panther Platform Rentals of the UK has spent a further £12 million in new products for its fleet.
UpRight powered access has appointed PPK as its new distributor for Austria.
29.05.2007
HWS, the Dutch access rental specialist has started construction of its new premises and spent €6million on new lifts.
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Skylift Hire is sponsoring a 8,000km cycle across Europe will raise funds for Irish Autism Action.
RSC shares get a cool reception as the company is floated.
A crane operators strike in Ontario is heading into its second week with no signs of a solution.
The UK government’s Draft Local Transport Bill paves the way for local authority road pricing schemes.
The chief executive at the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders is to leave at the end of the year.
Two men died yesterday when a special crane collapsed as it lifted them 50 metres to the dome of a nuclear reactor.
