Jason and Rachel Seddon of Leigh, UK, based rental company Aerial Platforms Ltd, have become the proud parents of a baby girl.
25.01.2009
The Health and Safety Offences Act 2008 came into force last week with increased sentencing powers
23.01.2009
UK based ladder and scaffold tower manufacturer Youngman has launched a new push around scissor lift.
22.01.2009
Traffic was disrupted yesterday in Dubai when a mobile crane tipped over while lifting a sign which had fallen from an overhead gantry.
Italian spider platform manufacturer Bluelift has ended its UK distribution agreement with SkyKing
Preliminary results show Palfinger revenues up 14% to €795 million, while earnings declined 31%.
Deutz-Fahr has shown two new JLG built telehandler models at the UK agricultural show –LAMMA.
An engineer in Gloucester County, Washington, USA died after after he was catapulted from the aerial work platform he was using.
Skyjack has appointed Rexco to distribute its VR range of telehandlers in Iowa and Western Illinois.
21.01.2009
The Manitowoc Crane Group laid off 305 production workers and 10 office staff on Friday, following a softening in the small crane market.
Liebherr has held the official ground breaking ceremony for its new plant in Dzerzhinsk, in Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia.
Hiab has introduced an eight lever remote control
JLG Europe restructures its sales organisation - Cracknell and Guillaux assume additional responsibilities.
Two men were injured yesterday at Cleco's Rodemacher plant in after a crawler crane's boom collapsed in Louisiana.
Bill Lasky has been appointed as chairman and CEO of commercial vehicle component company - Accuride
20.01.2009
JCB has launched a new pick and carry mobile tractor type crane in India dubbed the Liftall.
JLG has appointed Donald F. Roy as senior vice president – manufacturing, responsible for leading JLG operations and lean initiatives.
You may have noticed that Vertikal.Net was down for several hours today, this caused by a catastrophic line failure into the centre where it is hosted.
UK rental company, Speedy has issued a statement updating its November forecasts for its second half, as planned, following the holiday shutdown period.
US crane rental company, Amquip, has recruited Tom Prozinski of Arcomet to head up its Northeast tower crane business.
Merlo UK has delivered its 7,000th telehandler to GT Lifting solutions of Lancing West Sussex.
Haulotte will unveil a new 34ft compact - 1.9 metre wide, 4x4 articulated boom lift at Intermat in April
19.01.2009
Cargotec, owner of Hiab, Kalmar and MacGregor has issued preliminary results for 2008 which show a 13% rise in revenues, but a fall in margins.
UK based Global Private Equity has acquired a controlling interest in Jassim Transport and Stevedoring of Kuwait, which includes crane rental and heavy lifting.
