Valla UK the Pick & carry crane specialist and Valla distributor in the UK, USA & Middle East, has expanded into the rental market with six new cranes and several new appointments.
15.04.2009
A death wish photo from Mexico, our 62nd, shows several men working at height with scant regard for their safety.
Gottwald Port Technology has received the first order for its Generation 5 Harbour Crane Model 4 from South America.
14.04.2009
Messe München owner of Bauma and AEM which organises Conexpo, have agreed closer cooperation in organising international construction machinery exhibitions.
It is not too often that we are sent Death Wish photos of cranes in action but Death Wish 61 sent in by a reader in Arizona is just that..
A foundation crane tipped over in central Tokyo today injuring six and blocking three lanes of a major street
Brian Sherlock and Alan Huddart, previously colleagues at UK rental company Hewden, has launched a new business- Spa Asset Management
The crane that tipped over in Manchester at the end of March has been recovered by two mobile cranes from Mammoet.
13.04.2009
Collé Rental & Sales has been appointed as the Dutch distributor for Palfinger’s aerial lift products from Wumag and Bison.
Three men were injured on this weekend when a tower crane collapsed during erection at a worksite in Manama, Bahrain.
12.04.2009
Hertz Equipment Rental has acquired Rent One, a Spanish power generation company based in Cheste, Valencia.
10.04.2009
Irons Design & Build, the UK company that disappeared with at least one aerial lift after having rented it has been ‘wound up’
Holland Lift has confirmed that Haulotte will distribute its heavy duty scissor lifts in France, Italy and former Yugoslav states.
09.04.2009
Tadano Faun has released more details on its latest cranes, the ATF130G-5 All Terrain and 70 tonne HK70 five axle truck crane.
Boom truck manufacturer Manitex has received an order for 20 of its 17 ton boom trucks from Allied Crane & Machinery.
Italian truck and spider lift manufacturers CMC and SUP- Elefant have appointed Baker Access as its distributor in the UK.
08.04.2009
Kranlyft, the European master distributor for Maeda cranes has appointed Jackie Haley as marketing manager.
A boom truck blocked a busy Toronto street on Tuesday after its outriggers sank into soft ground, causing it to topple.
The Vertikal Intermat and the next Cranes&Access close tomorrow, if you have last minute news or advertising messages now is the time.
Tanfield has reported full year revenues up 18% on 2007 while profits fell 87% to £146 million. Goodwill and other write downs took the final result negative.
Spotted in March in Bayton road industrial Estate Coventry, UK two men used a 45ft lift to reach the roof and then climbed out of the platform cage.
The UK’s CPA and Health &Safety Executive will launch two major new Best Practice Guides at Vertikal Days on June 24th.
07.04.2009
SGB has scooped $4 million worth of new scaffold rental orders in the UK/Ireland
We have photographs of the first of Kobelco’s all new 400 tonne crawler crane that will debut at Intermat on April 20th
