Mitie Powered Access is from today officially The Platform Company.
12.02.2002
British and Irish hire companies expect to expand fleets this year. The annual "Cranes & Access" Hire Rates Survey reports surprisingly high levels of confidence.
07.02.2002
Terex has sold Holland Lift. The deal was officially sealed on January 25, between Terex and Holland Lift’s new owner, Stoneham Equipment Inc of Chicago.
28.01.2002
The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) has announced that Paul Fulcher, operations director of LGH Group plc, has taken over as its chairman.
22.01.2002
JLG will launch its new range of CE certified telehandlers at Conexpo, Las Vegas, in March.
Upright's parent company, WR Carpenter North America, Inc., has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 protection. A joint reorganisation plan has been filed.
02.01.2002
Upright has sold the rights to its telehandler products to Volvo.
19.12.2001
18.12.2001
Tadano Faun has revealed that its new distributor for Britain and Ireland will be Cranes UK Ltd.
Omniquip Textron has decided to close Snorkel’s German operation and is re-organising its European management structure
14.12.2001
JLG has revealed that Wayne Lawson has been named to the position of General Manager for the UK/ Developing Markets and European Marketing and Customer Support, reporting to Israel Celli, Vice President of International Sales.
12.12.2001
The new owner of Kato Cranes (UK) has told staff that the company is up for sale and that all options will be considered if a buyer cannot be found.
11.12.2001
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04.12.2001
Demag's CEO and president Eberhard Kuhn is to leave the company after 36 years.
03.12.2001
European assembled versions of Tadano's Superdeck aerial platform should be ready in March
29.11.2001
Terex will finally purchase Atlas Weyhausen and is also buying the Schaeff Group. The deal follows a complex arangement in which Terex’s Fil Filipov has for the last few months been “advising” the current owners of Atlas Weyhausen, one of Germany’s largest articulated boom crane manufacturers.
The European market for crawler cranes is currently about €16 million says Tsutomu Kimura, Managing Director of Kobelco in Europe. He estimates that Kobelco has 15 to 20 per cent of the market.
Mammoet has decided to move it’s Asia Pacific headquarters from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur.
Laroy NV, a Flemish crane rental company, has completed 1000 days of accident free operations.
UpRight has announced that The RC Group Ltd will take over as the dealer of its scaffold towers and aerial work platforms in Bulgaria.
The first European-built Skyjack scissors were delivered to Skyjack's dutch offices today.
22.11.2001
Hundreds of heavy lift specialists converged on Demag’s test ground today to see the new 1,250 tonne CC 8800 which was has been rigged for the first time ever
09.11.2001
The Vertikal Press has successfully completed an audit by Germany’s IVW organisation and has been accepted for membership of Germany’s leading association of professional publishers.
31.10.2001
Manitowoc has re-oranised its senior management team to reflect new priorities following the purchase of Potain
30.10.2001
