Vertikal Days is just five weeks away, the space is all but sold out and the event is looking to break records.
23.05.2012 2
A quick thinking crane operator may have helped save a woman’s life yesterday in South Carolina.
22.05.2012 1
IPAF has announced the first speaker for the Europlatform 2012 in Edinburgh in September – Norty Turner.
22.05.2012
Spotted by a reader visiting Cuba recently, a wooden freeform scaffold that looks quite prickly.
Terex has acquired the shares of Italian luffing jib tower crane manufacturer Recom that it does not already own.
Scaffolding UK has opened a new branch in Hampshire operating under the name of Hampshire Scaffolding UK.
Under-bridge inspection specialist Moog has delivered a custom lift for the Bucharest to Constanta highway.
A New York judge has put an end to an attempt by tower crane erector William Rapetti to get his licenses back.
21.05.2012
Load Systems International has opened a UK division, Load Systems UK, based in Aberdeen, Scotland.
For many years Irish based Height for Hire/Easi UpLifts has used a little man in its marketing, he now has a name.
Palfinger Platforms has supplied three P 220B truck mounted platforms to Oslo Liftutleie, in Norway.
The on-going legal battle between Valla cranes and JMG and its owners has now been settled.
A crane operator was stabbed to death on Saturday by a rival for cutting rental rates in Coimbatore, India.
20.05.2012
Ian James of Bronto has successfully completed his trek to the top of Britain’s highest mountain for charity.
20.05.2012 2
Spotted by a reader in Australia this week, a man using a hybrid form of powered access.
A four axles All Terrain crane went over in Singapore this weekend as it unloaded a container from a truck.
A man fell to his death on Saturday at the Port of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia.
A man died yesterday near New York, after he was catapulted from a boom lift which overturned on soft ground.
18.05.2012
A reader from Lebanon has reported a fatal crane incident in the town of Jiyeh, today.
Spotted and sent to us by a reader from Switzerland, a sign which looked like a rental industry scoop.
Canadian based Constellation Software has acquired Wynne Systems, the owner of RentalMan software.
A 240 ton All Terrain crane overturned at a rental company in Orange County, California this morning.
18.05.2012 1
Ian James of Bronto will climb Ben Nevis, the UK’s highest mountain tomorrow, in aid of charity.
A-Plant, the UK operation of Ashtead has placed orders for new equipment worth over £24 million.
