Australian crane and access company Boom Logistics has reported full year revenues up 17%, while profits slipped 43%.
18.08.2008
Hull based cranes and access company Peter Hird has announced a new management team for its training division.
Southampton, UK, based Selwood Plant has acquired Proplant of Cardiff, its second acquisition in the last two months – the company purchased Glo Hire in July.
In spite of all the recent uproar about tower crane safety around the world we have been sent a video of what we think is highly dangerous operation on a Dublin site.
EYG the Hull based glazing contractor is using Jekko spider cranes/glass manipulators for placing large glazing panels.
Las Vegas based Ahern Rentals has reported first half revenues up 25 percent to $192 million but profits slipped 30% due to higher costs.
Ramirent the Finnish based international rental company has reported revenues up almost 19% while profits slipped 9%.
15.08.2008
Romania’s largest aerial lift rental company Industrial Access has ordered15 Niftylift booms for its growing rental fleet.
US based boom truck and crane manufacturer Manitex has reported first half revenues down 5% while profits climbed 7% and backlog 16%.
A man has died at the Fore River shipyard in Quincy, near Boston, when the leg of a Goliath crane was dropped as it was being dismantled.
14.08.2008
German platform manufacturerRuthmann will show two new truck platforms at APEX 2008.
Singapore based crane sales and rental company Tat Hong has announced a 39% increase in first quarter revenues with profits up 60%
A runaway crane smashed into the front of a house in Matlock in Derbyshire, (UK) earlier today after its brakes failed on a steep hill into the town.
13.08.2008
Bobcat has added new features to all twelve telehandler models
Specialist scaffolding and mastclimber contractor the Brogan Group has signed a partnership agreement with Xena Systems, the Irish supplier of loading platforms and crane loading systems.
A banks man has died after being crushed by a cranes counterweight on a bridge job on I-80 near Atlantic Iowa, the second fatality in eight weeks.
The boom of a crawler crane came crashing down on a barge on a bridge contract in New Bern, North Carolina on Monday. One man was injured but not seriously
The launch of the MEASAT 3A satellite has been pushed back indefinitely after it was struck by a crane on Saturday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
12.08.2008
Finning the CAT distributor and owner of Hewden in the UK, has reported first half revenues of just under c$3 billion but Hewden continues to drag.
David Hull has now officially taken over as vice president of sales for Manitowoc and Grove cranes in North America following the retirement of Bob Hixon.
The latest edition of Kran & Bühne is now on line and available to read or download.
New legislation sends message of 'zero tolerance' to New York crane inspectors.
Terex Cranes opened its new, puropose-built UK facility in Long Crendon, near Thame last Friday in style.
Finnish based rental company, Cramo, has reported first half revenues up over 25% - profits grew by 15%.
