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Speedy snap up Lloyds British Hire

Speedy Hire has purchased Lloyds British Hire for £3.1 million. The transaction is effective immediately

01.03.2005

Scaffolding firm fined £30,000 for death

Crowe Fabrications Ltd, was fined £30,000 with £12,000 costs for failing to properly plan and assess risks. after a scaffold collapse during dismantling killing one man and injuring another

01.03.2005

O'Flaherty joins Districenter

Rhona O’Flaherty, until three years ago Customer service manager with UpRight International has joined the new UpRight Districenter operation

28.02.2005

Facelift move into the scissor lift market

Facelift the Hickstead based access rental company that specialises in truck mounted and specialist access has made a move into the scissor lift market with the purchase of 30 Skyjack units.

28.02.2005

UK Minium wage to rise to £5.35

The UK minimum wage will rise to £5.05 in October 2005 and then to £5.35 next year.

25.02.2005

JLG First half sales soar by 47 percent

JLG revenues for its first half climbed to a record $660 million an increase of 47 percent on the same period in 2004. Second quarter profits largely compensated for the first quarter loss leaving the company with a small year to date loss.

25.02.2005

Price of UK Safety test halved

The CITB has cut the price it charges for its general Health and Safety test from£35 to £17.50 effective the end of this month.

24.02.2005

Locatelli appoints Hird for UK

Locatelli the Italian crane producer has appointed Peter Hird, the Hull based crane and access company as its distributor for the UK

23.02.2005

UpRight appoint Master Distributor

UpRight International has appointed the newly formed and independently owned Ui Districenter BV, of Dordrecht Holland as its master distributor for Holland and Belgium.

23.02.2005

Brand building tactics for Alimak Hek

The newly named Alimak-Hek held a press conference last week to elaborate on its strategies after “dropping the Intervect name forever”.

23.02.2005

Site Managers win

Three site managers have each won a pair of tickets to a leading Premiership football match - simply for checking the that aerial lift operators on their sites have proof of proper training.

22.02.2005

Denka’s parent buys Falck Schmidt

VT Holding A/S the parent company of Denka Lift, the Danish producer of high quality trailer and atrium lifts has purchased the aerial lift business of fellow Danish producer Falck Schmidt.

22.02.2005

Kestrel sells hoist business

Bristol based Kestrel Access has sold its goods hoist business to Hoist Hire services ltd also based in Bristol.

21.02.2005

Ainscough appointed Vice president ESTA

Ainscough crane hire hosted a meeting of The European Special Transport Association ( E.S.T.A.), earlier this month, during which Martin Ainscough was appointed as a vice president of ESTA.

21.02.2005

The Rental Show 2005

This years Rental show had plnety of news in spite of its proximity to Conexpo also in Las Vegas in mid March. The Vertikal press was there to bring you the highlights

21.02.2005

Cox Plant sold to Managers

Cox Plant Ltd which went into administration at the end of January, has been sold to its previous owners Keith Price and David Symon..

18.02.2005

Scaffolding falls from High rise

Scaffolding, along with lumps of concrete, fell to the ground from the 39th floor of the Beetham tower in Birmingham yesterday, fortunately no one was hurt in the incident.

18.02.2005

Scaffold company Director banned

A director of failed scaffold company Embassy scaffold of Rainham has been banned from holding any directorships or management positions for five years.

18.02.2005

Alive and Pedalling

We had a number of responses to our Is it a scissor or is it a scaffold? article earlier this week one of which had information on the original Pedal Lift

17.02.2005

The Rental Show closes today

The American Rental Associations annual conference and Rental Show will close in Las Vegas today on a positive note, the number of exhibitors, and visitors, was much higher than expected and traffic in the show for the first two days was strong.

17.02.2005

HSS invests in Spain

HSS the UK based hire shops company, has bought a 25 percent stake in its Spanish Licensee and plans to expand its Access rental fleet.

15.02.2005

Is it a Scissor or is a scaffold tower?

The Wolfe Towermatic launched in the UK last year has begun to take off with orders coming in from tool hire companies.

15.02.2005

HMF complete off road platform project

HMF has delivered a go anywhere crane and access platform for an electrical utility following a six year development period.

14.02.2005

BMS - Kran Ringen and words of wisdom

We interview Søren Jensen, managing director of BMS, one of Northern Europes largest crane and access rental company's. He had a good deal to say, particularly abut the crane rental business.

14.02.2005

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