JLG has won a contract from the United States Army to rebuild 500 All Terrain Lifter Army System (ATLAS) telehandlers and 300 other rough terrain forklifts.
11.06.2009
Martin Ainscough has sold his majority stake in UK machinery removal and installation specialist Ainscough-Vanguard to his son Matthew.
10.06.2009
UpRight has opened a new operation in the Middle East, appointed a new product support director.
Tadano has recently unveiled a dual-armed, quadrupedal robotic crane called Rototops.
UK based Blade Access Specialists has taken delivery of a new 45 metre Wumag and moved into new, purpose-built premises.
ThyssenKrupp Safway has been awarded Haulotte Group/Biljax first Platinum Customer Award.
Leeuwarden, Holland, based Kielstra Kraanverhuur has taken delivery of a new 220 tonne Tadano Faun ATF220G-5 All Terrain crane.
09.06.2009
Italian spider lift manufacturer Bluelift has appointed Bravi UK as its distributor for the UK and Ireland, trading as Bluelift UK.
The Chinese market is providing a useful boost to Italian manufacturer CTE’s sales in 2009 through its distributor- Handler.
New research shows business owners and managers are investing in customer service levels to avoid losing valuable business.
When UK lifting company FSR's premises were vandalised, it feared the worst, but with the support of its suppliers it bounced back stroinger than ever.
Charges have leveled against three companies and a director following an investigation into a fatal suspended platform accident in Queensland, Australia last year.
Elliott Equipment Company has unveiled the V60, a new 60ft/18 metres straight telescopic, ‘material handling’ aerial work platform
Edmolift and Bravi UK have launched a new two man push around scissor lift.
Bravi the compact self propelled lift manufacturer has announced the winners from its customer survey.
08.06.2009
Michela Viviani of truck mounted and spider lift manufacturer Oil &Steel has been promoted to director.
Police in Tasmania, are investigating how a mobile crane rolled down a slope and landed on a house this morning.
Acme Lift the US re-rent company has appointed Bryan Rich as chairman and after he became a new equity partner.
Worldlift Industries owner of Denka Lift and Falck Schmidt has ended production at Denka's historic Holbæk facility.
Reports are coming in that a tower section has been dropped at the site of a tower crane accident in Malta just two weeks ago.
06.06.2009
Linamar, owner of aerial lift and telehandler manufacturer Skyjack, has retired $80 million of its borrowings, five months before its due date.
Mecaplus will display its remarkable self levelling boom lifts at Vertikal Days, in the meantime you can see them in action on video.
With big scissor lift utilisation not quite what it was, many rental companies have units in their yards and are increasingly using them as high level advertising hoardings – Beware.
05.06.2009
We have reports and photographs of a loader crane tipped over in Glasgow earlier this week, due to… incorrectly set outriggers.
