The boom of a telescopic crawler crane working in Brisbane, Australia has collapsed virtually destroying the crane.
04.02.2009
Al Laith Scaffolding, the Dubai based access specialist has supplied Dubai Airport with a number of Nifty lifts.
A man died yesterday while dismantling a crane on a construction site in the Marylands heights area of St Louis, Missouri.
Port Weller Dry Docks has been fined C$175,000 after pleading guilty to failing to maintain a crane which collapsed in 2007,killing its operator.
03.02.2009
Dutch based rental company Kamphuis is expanding into scissor lifts and adding more boom lifts, following an acquisiton in Germany.
Aichi has appointed Toyota Lift of South Texas as one of its new dealers.
IPAF has published guidance notes for second party inspection bodies that carry out periodic thorough examinations of MEWPs.
Cargotec, owner of Hiab loader cranes and Kalmar reach stackers has created two new management boards and added two new development and technology appointments.
A 66 year old crane operator died yesterday after he was struck by his own timber loading crane at a paper mill in Richmond County Georgia.
02.02.2009
In our report this morning on the crane that tipped over in Brighton, Victoria, we missed the fact that not all of its counterweight was installed.
Cargotec, owner of Hiab loader cranes and Kalmar reach stackers and port cranes has reported a mixed set of results for its full year 2008.
An electrical retailer in Brighton, near Melbourne, Australia, which was closed due to a bad fire has now been hit by a tipping crane.
Two more UK crane rental companies have switched tyre suppliers to Double Coin tyres which are produced in China.
01.02.2009
Vertikal.Net achieved new readership records in January in terms of total visitors, pages viewed and bandwidth consumed.
Harsco, owner of SGB and Hünnebeck has appointed Richard Sullivan as vice president of business transformation worldwide.
30.01.2009
Aichi has begun shipping its new 40/45ft crawler mounted telescopic boom lifts that it unveiled at APEX.
JLG has reported a 40% drop in revenues for its first fiscal quarter 2008/2009, to the end of December, compared to the same period last year.
The UK Health & Safety Executive has decided to go ahead with an official register of tower cranes
29.01.2009
Manitowoc Crane Group has said that it could cut around 22% of its to workforce in 2009.
Eurotank Environmental has won the 2008 Health and Safety award at the Association of Petroleum Explosives Administration, for its Pyroban modified Niftylift 90s
Two UK rail maintenance companies have failed in their appeal against almost £500,000 of fines for the death of a man while loading an aerial lift.
Tech Ops/Sevcon, the producer of motor control systems for aerial lifts and forktrucks has seen a 33% drop in first quarter revenues.
Eazzi Lifts the UK based manufacturer of push around scissor lifts has appointed R2 Access as its UK distributor.
Manitowoc crane sales in 2008 were up almost 22% to a new record of $3.9 billion, narrowly missing $4 billion, due to a flat fourth quarter.
