Kobelco cranes has reported revenues up 12% in the first half of its fiscal year while profits were flat.
14.11.2008
Finning International has reported a 5% increase in nine months revenues, while the latest quarter rose 10% with marginally higher profits – Hewden continues to lag.
JCB has announced that it is reducing production at its UK plants by 34 per cent and maintaining the reduced output levels into the first quarter of 2009.
13.11.2008
Third World comes to Barnsley - when you need to reach the gutters on your warehouse and both your ladder and your fork truck are too short what do you do?
Lavendon Europe’s largest aerial lift rental company has issued an interim statement showing revenues up 36% with a “good improvement in margins”.
Scissor lift manufacturer MEC has announced revenues for the first nine months up 5% up on the same period in 2007.
If you are a German speaker the latest Kran&Bühne is now on line and available to read or download.
12.11.2008
Iteco, the Italian based aerial lift manufacturer has appointed Russon Access Platforms as its exclusive distributor for the UK and Ireland.
We have received some photos of a new 900 tonne crawler crane in which the slew bearing failed, but have few facts.
Essex Cranes the North American crawler crane rental company has now released its revenue numbers, following completion of its acquisition by Hyde Park.
11.11.2008
UpRight has announced a new 67ft heavy duty RT scissor lift the HX67RT
A massive gantry crane at the Odense shipyard in Denmark ran away in strong winds on Sunday, smashing into two other cranes.
A tower crane operating in Charlotte, North Carolina dropped a load of steel beams yesterday, one of which landed on the roof of a school bus.
Finnish based international rental company Cramo has reported nine month revenues up by over 23%, while profits climbed 7%.
Tanfield, owner of Snorkel and UpRight has appointed a new nominated advisor and broker and taken the opportunity to release a trading update.
Access Hire Nationwide, the UK based van mounted lift rental company has ordered Aldercote lifts on LDV vans.
10.11.2008
Genie has appointed David Brotherton as product manager for its articulating boom lift range.
The ARA, AED and AEM are urging the United States Senate and House of Representatives to take action to pass a package to help the equipment industry.
A man died yesterday on a construction site in Chelmsford, UK, some reports blame a concrete panel falling from a crane, while others a scaffold accident.
Link Belt has appointed Columbus Equipment as its distributor for all of Ohio and selected counties in Kentucky and Indiana.
UK based contractor Sir Robert McAlpine was charged £3,800 in fines and costs last week for breaching noise regulations with an aerial lift.
UK rental company M&M, has taken delivery of a new 140t Terex-Demag AC120-1
There are only a couple of days left to place a recruitment advert in the next Cranes & Access/Vertikal.net
Crane and access manufacturer Palfinger has reported nine month revenues up by more than 20%, while profitability slips.
