Two men were badly injured last week after a wheel of the boom lift they were using went through a cover over a void causing it to tip.
04.07.2007
This is nothing to do with cranes, access or telehandlers, it is probably very amateur of us to publish it.. serious readers please go to the next story.
03.07.2007
Cramo the Finnish based rental company has acquired Oskarin Vuokrakone a small rental company in central Finland.
Danish lorry loader manufacturer HMF is celebrating 20 years trading in the UK.
Cargotec has received orders for 42 ship cranes for vessels built in China and Taiwan.
Vertikal.Net achieved new records again in June, with over 2.3 million hits and 63,000 visits
A police camera caught a crawler crane boom on tape as it came crashing down across a main road.
Maxim Crane works has increased the price bands for its Dutch auction share buyback tender and extended the deadline.
02.07.2007
The Big Merino a 96 tonne concrete ram was recently relocated in Goulburn, just south of Sydney.
Two men fell from a scaffold tower in Madrid while dismantling the stage of the Rolling Stones concert.
Liebherr has appointed Christoph Kleiner as Geschäftsführer of sales at Liebherr Ehingen.
A mobile crane exploded in Melbourne this morning after catching fire.
A mobile crane tipped over backwards in Nagoya Japan on Saturday taking out the power lines.
01.07.2007
Spanish tower crane manufacturer Comansa, says that it can offer six week delivery on its flat top cranes.
A youth stole the keys from a boom lift yesterday leaving the operator stranded.
30.06.2007
Edmonton based Northern Crane Services has acquired A-1 Crane & Bridge Rentals of Grande Prairie, Alberta.
29.06.2007
CTE is to distribute Genie telehandlers in Italy and former Yugoslavian countries.
Manufacturers are becoming increasingly concerned about the safety of tower cranes which use counterfeit components.
An Auckland based construction company has been fined $250,000 for a crane accident on top of $250,000 compensation.
Power Lifting Services has been appointed Bocker distributor in the UK.
28.06.2007
Tanfield has taken another major step in into the powered access market with the acquisition of Snorkel.
Tanfield, owner of UpRight Powered Access, was obliged to announce yesterday that it is looking to raise £115 million to fund a substantial acquisition.
27.06.2007
Two new Wilbert WT 300 e.tronic tower cranes and a WT205L luffer are being used on the 'Opernturm' building in the centre of Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
RSC celebrated its IPO by ringing the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange yesterday.
