Andy Wright has been appointed to the new position of head of Lavendon UK.
05.06.2007
Milcon the Dutch based access and forklift rental company has been sold to Pon
Seven Teupen spider lifts are working on 15 degree slopes at the Chill factor, a new indoor ski slope in Manchester.
Ainscough properties has announced new plans to expand its forty-five acre Leyland Business Park at Centurion Way, Leyland.
A volunteer was killed last Thursday and a teacher injured when an aerial lift being used for an experiment collapsed.
04.06.2007
MEC Aerials has appointed a new general manager for its manufacturing division
Lavendon has been back on the acquisition trail buying Wizard Workspace, the company previously known as Independent Access Supplies.
A tower crane collapsed yesterday on a hotel in Croydon, London, The cranes operator was seriously injured and three men were trapped in the tower.
03.06.2007
A mobile lattice crane boom fell onto a Synagogue in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, today
02.06.2007
May was another record month for Vertikal.Net which recorded more than 2 million hits for the first time with 62,572 visitors.
A technical fault with a crane at Cape Canaveral has delayed the launch of a space mission to study Asteroids.
A video was sent to us just over a week ago of an accident, we were not convinced that it was real as more of you have sent it in today we are asking for input.
A delivery truck hit a bridge near Poole in Dorset on Thursday, ripping its crane off and dumping it in the road.
Link Belt has announced a $24 million expansion at its Kentucky HQ, which will add 120 jobs and more crane production capacity.
01.06.2007
Window cleaning companies in Holland have become major powered access users, a recent window cleaning show attracted 60 aerial lift exhibits.
Plans to build another new terminal at London’s Heathrow airport have been given the go ahead.
Six Greenpeace activists have occupied one of Mammoet’s MSD heavy lift cranes this week in Finland.
Seaway Heavy Lifting has ordered a 5,000 tonne revolving heavy lift ship crane for delivery in 2010.
This years crane safety conference opens in London on Monday, it is still possible to book a place.
Power Climber has appointed Piet Theunis as regional sales manager in Belgium.
Unions and employers have reached a tentative agreement ending the crane operators strike in Ontario.
31.05.2007
A man working in Detroit is seriously injured tonight after falling from a scissor lift
Maxim Cranes Works is to stage a ‘Dutch Auction’ to buy back up to 25% of its outstanding shares.
Motorists had a lucky escape yesterday after a loader crane boom was ripped off as the truck passed under a low bridge in Elderslie, Scotland.
