Fred Ostermeyer, the Managing Director of The Lavendon group’s Zooom operation in Germany has left the company. CEO Kevin Appleton will take over on a temporary basis.
31.01.2005
Caterpillar Inc .has reported record 2004 revenues of over $30 billion an increase of 33 percent on last year and record profits of over $two billion an increase of 85 percent compared to 2003.
30.01.2005
Loxam, already one of Europe’s largest rental company’s has announced its purchase of Etup’Loc a major access rental company in France, which at one time boasted 18 locations and 1,800 units.
29.01.2005
Loxam has issued a very brief statement this week confirming that it has acquired the Ireland Access arm of UK Platforms (See Vertikal.Net January 14th).
28.01.2005
Oil & Steel used this weeks Hire show to kick off a streamlined distribution policy for the UK market which involves the Platform company being responsible for the bulk of the company’s sales and support in the UK.
Barin, the Italian producer of specialist lifts has delivered its latest under bridge inspection unit to Busan Metropolitan City in South Korea.
Altrex the Dutch based producer of Alloy scaffold towers, staging, ladders and suspended platforms was in London this week looking for a UK distributor
27.01.2005
JLG Industries has announced the appointment of Thomas Capo and Kim Foster to its Board of Directors, expanding JLG’s Board to ten members.
Sky Access the Swiss sales and rental company that until recently represented JLG in Switzerland has taken on the Skyjack scissor lift range.
25.01.2005
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging British companies to ignore all correspondence from a firm calling itself the "Health and Safety Registration Enforcement Division".
24.01.2005
The Hire Show opens iat Londons Excel centre on Wednesday next week for two days, entry is free to those in the industry.
22.01.2005
Haulotte reports that revenues for 2004 rose by 30 percent compared to 2003, with net profits forecast at five percent. The group expect revenues in 2005 to increase by a further 15 to 20 percent.
21.01.2005
Nationwide Access has opened two new training centres, which it says will serve businesses along the M4 corridor in the south west and south Wales regions.
20.01.2005
The Bologna-based knuckle boom crane producer, Effer, has announced an 18-percent year-on-year sales increase in 2004.
The first of the new Terex-Demag 55 tonne AC55 City cranes have arrived in the UK.
McDermott Bros, was fined £150,000 yesterday after a man died following a fall at work. The HSE issue a statement on Harnesses and the use of Proper work platforms.
19.01.2005
Manitowoc has announced that it will break ground next month on a new crane production plant in China, twice the size of its current Potain facility.
A group of 40 Crane people from Sweden saw the arrival in Europe of Tadano’s new Rough Terrain crane the GR 300 EX from Japan, while at the company’s German plant.
Cramo has appointed Erik van Leeuwenstijn as president of Cramo Netherlands and announced new presidents for Cramo Finland and Cramo Latvia.
18.01.2005
Unic Cranes Europe will launch a new 1,000 kg crane which, they claim, will be the worlds smallest, at SMOPYC in Zaragoza, Spain this March.
17.01.2005
UK Forks has promoted its former sales and marketing director Haydn Davies to the positon of divisional director.
The International Powered Access Federation is offering Safety officers the chance to win a pair of tickets to a premiership football match for checking that users of aerial lifts have PAL cards, proving that they have received proper training in the safe use of aerial work platforms.
Volvo Rents has signed a franchising agreement with TE.CO the operator of the Italnolo rental franchises in Italy. There are currently 35 Italnolo outlets across northern Italy.
Veidekke, the Norwegian construction group which until November held 16 percent of Finland’s Ramirent, has liquidated its holding.
