Coates Hire one of Australia’s largest rental companies has announced a strategic review to consider its options after a number of takeover approaches.
07.05.2007
Boom Logistics has acquired Moorland Hire from under the nose of other ‘consolidators’
Turkish crane rental company Sarilar placed orders for a 1,350 tonne Liebherr LR 11350, and 750 tonne LR1750 crawler cranes at Bauma.
An aerial lift accident sparked further anger at May Day rallies across Italy protesting the high level of work place fatalities in the country.
In April Loxam made a further acquisition in Spain acquiring Airent a Madrid based general rental operation.
06.05.2007
Kranlyft is adding two more Maeda compact crawler cranes to its LC range
05.05.2007
GAM the publicly quoted Spanish rental company has made a formal offer for access rental company Vilatel.
Power Climber, the suspended platform producer, has appointed Phil Hermes as east regional sales manager in North America.
Oshkosh has announced strong second quarter results with revenues doubling compared to last year. JLG revenues rose by 19.6%.
A pick up driver had a near miss on Thursday when a crawler crane tipped over and its boom hit the back of a passing pick up truck.
04.05.2007
A lattice truck crane tipped over sideways in Miami Beach yesterday dumping its boom in the ocean.
Power-Lift has ordered over 100 new lifts from UpRight, while Siegl has order 35 lifts.
The 10,000th Ruthmann platform has been sold for a winning bid of €92478,99
Bil-Jax has appointed Lift Profi Kruger as its trailer lift distributor for Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
A boom lift tipped over last week in Northern Australia one man was ejected from the platform to his death while the other survived thanks to his harness.
03.05.2007
Svelt, Italy’s leading producer of ladders, podium steps and scaffold towers has appointed Indfast to stock, sell and market its products in the UK.
02.05.2007
A 41 year old crane diver working at Dover docks in the UK, died after a truck reversed into him.
IPSthe Telford, UK based supplier of parts and services to the powered access industry has established a new operation in Finland.
Tony Stokes, previously with UK Platforms, has joined Clements Plant & Tool in Coventry, UK.
The ebay auction for Ruthmanns 10,000th lift closes today, we made an error yesterday, at least 20% will go to the childrens charity, rather than 10% we reported.
Glen Tellock, president of Manitowoc crane has been appointed as president and CEO of the Manitowoc group, taking over from Terry Growcock.
01.05.2007
Bidding for the 10,000th Ruthmann aerial work platform has exceeded €80,000 and will continue on e-bay until Wednesday.
Manitowoc crane has reported its first quarter results for 2007, they show a 43 percent increase in revenues to, $683 million while OI leapt 88%.
30.04.2007
Peter Hird in the UK ordered 20 of the new JLG 1230ES self propelled vertical mast lifts at Bauma
