A lattice boomed truck crane fell from an overpass during a tandem lift in Billings Montana last week.
04.02.2007
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A man in his 40s died on Friday when he was catapulted out of a boom lift he was unloading
03.02.2007
A Manitowoc model 12000 has completed its heaviest lift to date raising an 812 tonne cracking unit
02.02.2007
Potain will launch an innovative self erecting tower crane, the Igo T70 at Bauma.
Vertikal.Net recorded 1.7 million hits in January from 57,727 visitors who viewed 431,000 pages.
PopUp has announced an extended version of its popular PopUp push around scissor lift, the PopUp-Plus
Don't let them get away with it. You can now use the C&A website to crack down on the building site thieves
01.02.2007
JLG has been awarded a new $102 million US Army contract for 566 JLG ATLAS II telescopic handlers.
Harsco the US based owner of SGB and Hünnebeck increased the sales of its Access Services division by 37%
PAT-Krueger parent Hirschmann has been acquired from Hg Capital by Belden cable.
31.01.2007
Unic Cranes Europe has appointed the access equipment manufacturer the Clow group as its distribution and rental partner in Scotland.
Manitowoc has announced record revenues, earnings and cash flow for 2006, with crane sales up by 38 percent, for the full year, to $2.24 billion.
30.01.2007
Two young men died when a suspended platform malfunctioned in Mechelen Belgium today.
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Fraco, the Canadian based mast climber manufacturer has established a majority owned affiliate in the UK
John Jennings MD of Clements Plant & Tool of Coventry, in the UK, has completed an MBO acquiring the business from the Deeley group.
29.01.2007
Singapore based crane rental company,Tat Hong has increased its holding in Shanghai Tat Hong to 90%
The barge Bigfoot with two crawler cranes on board arrived from Rotterdam yesterday at the site of the beached ship Napoli.
Caterpillar sales rose by 14% to $41.5 billion while profits climbed by 25%
28.01.2007
Telehandler and aerial lift manufacturer Manitou has announced revenues for 2006 of €1.13 billion, an increase of 14.5% on 2005.
26.01.2007
Joe Collinson a well known and popular powered access service engineer, died prematurely just before Christmas.
A new record has been set for the highest hub height on a wind turbine with a 160m high unit erected in Germany
Liebherr has delivered its1,000th LTM1055-3.1 55 tonne All-Terrain crane to Kran Warylo of Poland.
25.01.2007
