Finnish based international rental company Ramirent, has released its full year 2008 results, which show revenues up 11% to €703 million while profits dropped 65%.
12.02.2009
Terex crane has posted a 29% increase in revenues to $2.9 billion for the full year 2008, while operating income jumped 56%.
Terex AWP/Genie has reported full year 2008 revenues down just under 12% to $2.1 billion, while profits declined 46% due to a poor fourth quarter.
Aerial lift and telehandler company JLG has pulled out of Intermat, this year’s international equipment exhibition in Paris.
11.02.2009
Finnish based international rental company Cramo has posted full year 2008 results which show revenues up 17% while profits slipped 16%.
UK based Power Towers is launching two new models at the Executive Hire Show today, both units use a telescopic mast and offer working heights of 3.8 and 4.5 metres.
UK based aerial lift manufacturer Power Towers has announced a distribution partnership with Redband UK. .
UK Generators the leading supplier of hydraulic powered generators for aerial work platforms has been declared insolvent.
10.02.2009
Demag Cranes, the German based manufacturer of overhead and harbour cranes,has reported first quarter revenues up 4.1% while profits increased 2%.
Spotted yesterday in Oswestry, Shropshire, UK, a photographer using a fork mounted basket, fitted to a slab type industrial forklift on the public highway. UPDATED
09.02.2009
Genie has announced that it will in future provide its parts and service manuals on DVD and via the web, in place of printed manuals
Layher, the German based scaffold manufacturer has relocated to a new 12,000 square metre facility in Scotland.
Link Belt has announced a number of appointments to its product support team.
CTE the Italian based access equipment manufacturer has announced new product brands for its truck, spider and Bizzocchi fire platforms.
Tanfield, owner of UpRight and Snorkel aerial work platforms and SEV electric vehicles, has announced an electric vehicle development collaboration with Ford Motor Company.
Four UK crane and access companies have made it into the UK’s top 100 fastest growing private equity backed businesses.
08.02.2009
One man died and another is critically ill after a boom lift overturned in Boston, Massachusetts on Saturday, neither were wearing a harness.
Italian lifting attachment manufacturer, Gusella, has appointed Approved Hydraulics as its UK distributor.
Jonathan Till, of GT Access is participating in a moustache growing competition aimed at raising money to help fight testicular cancer.
06.02.2009
Hard to say how much of a death wish this contribution is, from a work at height angle, but if you think you have snow take a look at this
Tanfield, owner of UpRight and Snorkel aerial lifts has released a trading statement stating that its 2008 revenues are up on 2007 and that it is breaking even and maintaining its cash position.
Tanfield, owner of UpRight, Snorkel and SEV Electric Vehicles is to spin off its Electric Vehicle business in the USA.
The Youngman Group, the UK alloy scaffold tower and ladder manufacturer is launching a new generation of its Boss aluminium scaffold tower system next week
DK Rental has appointed Philippe Parmentier to handle used equipment sales.
