The Election for the new president of the USA is over and life returns to normal, but first of all the posters and hoardings must come down, one British company provided some virtual help.
05.11.2004
The Bank of England has left interest rates unchanged today at 4.75 percent
04.11.2004
The Cranes&Access and Kran&Bühne editorial calendars are now on line and integrated into the updated media kit. Click on the media kit logo to your right.
Maxim, the world's largest crane hire company, has said that it is back on track to complete its pre-negotiated reorganisation plan by the end of 2004.
03.11.2004
Sir Anthony Bamford is to stand down as the managing director of JCB the market leading telehandler manufacturer
02.11.2004
Businessman Lord Hanson, one of the founders of the Hanson plc the company that owned Cranes and access manufacturer Grove manufacturing company during the late 1980’s and early 90’s has died at 82 after a long battle with cancer.
The successful settlement of a legal suit by Yanmar against a company importing grey market Yanmar tractors into the USA might have implications for grey market Crane and aerial lift imports into Europe?
01.11.2004
We have just had confirmation that Malcolm Cardy, the ex European Divisional manager of Genie Industries and its longest serving European employee has now officially departed the business.
October saw this web site www.vertikal.net, achieve a record 300,000 "Hits" in a single month, while the number of visitors exceeded 10,500!
The latest cranes &Access is now available to download or to read on line. This month’s issue features crawler cranes, electric booms, news and views and much more. To take a look simply click on the front page to your right.
29.10.2004
The Electrical Contractors’ Association (ECA) has published an eight page guidance document covering alternatives to Stepladders for working at height, in preparation for the implementation of the Temporary work at height directive in the UK
A review of the 40th SAIE 40th exhibition in Bologna, following our reviews in Cranes & Access and Kran&Bühne
Manitowoc has announced that crane sales for the nine months to the end of September rose by 25 percent to $890 million. Profits for the crane group jumped by 48 percent in the same period.
The Terex group has reported a 38 percent jump in sales revenues for the third quarter 2004 compared with the same period in 2003. Crane sales rose 15 percent While Genie aerials revenues jumped 56 percent.
28.10.2004
The Crane division of Terex, which includes Terex Demag, has announced a four to six percent price increase effective November first.
The UK’s largest crane hire company Ainscough has ordered 37 new Liebherr All Terrain cranes for delivery between December 2004 and February 2005. The order includes 60, 100 and 220 tonne units.
27.10.2004
Versalift UK, the market leading producer of Van and small truck mounted aerial lifts is looking for additional sales staff in the UK including a senior sales executive.
26.10.2004
The driver of a mobile crane owned by Mediaco in France, has been placed under court control for involuntary Homicide following an accident last week near Nantes that killed a 12 year old school girl, injured another and narrowly missed 23 others.
25.10.2004
The UK’s Health and Safety Executive has announced a new consultation period for the Temporary Work at Height directive before it is presented to ministers. The main point of the consultation concerns the retention of two metre rule from current UK regulations.
Belguim-based crane hire company, Sarens, recently provided its 1,250-tonne capacity Terex-Demag CC8800 crawler crane for the task of lifting Germany's first ever near-shore turbine
Hans Aarse has joined the Vertkal Press sales and customer support team covering classified and web advertising in Holland.
Milcon of Sittard Holland, has expanded its crawler mounted mini crane fleet with the first Valla TRX 360 degree slew crawler mounted crane.
24.10.2004
At this weeks Valla cranes dealer meeting in Piacenza, Italy, Valla UK, a division of Peter Hird ltd, won the first Valla Top Dealer award for achieving the highest number of crane sales in 2004.
23.10.2004
United Rentals, the worlds largest Aerial lift owner, has reported revenues up 8.8 perecnt for the nine months to end September 2004 compared with 2003. No mention made of SEC investigation.
