The Australian rental industry is looking to tempt skilled professionals to migrate to the country to help solve a serious skills shortage.
06.02.2007
Belgian based Arcomet has acquired the outstanding shares in UK’s Airtek Cranes from Airtek Safety Ltd making it a wholly owned affiliate
William O’Brien Crane Hire of Cork has appointed Merrion Capital to find a buyer for the business.
An engine museum in west Wales needs needs a cheap crane to lift engine exhibits.
05.02.2007
Liebherr opens a new mobile crane training school in Bedfordshire
The UK’s T&G union is joining a campaign calling for an annual independent test on all cranes once they are 10 years old
A Rough Terrain crane toppled over onto the I-405 freeway in Los Angeles on Friday causing a collision.
04.02.2007
We closed the poll on what defines a mini or compact crane over the week end after receiving over 1,000 votes.
A lattice boomed truck crane fell from an overpass during a tandem lift in Billings Montana last week.
The latest issue of Cranes&Access is now on line
A man in his 40s died on Friday when he was catapulted out of a boom lift he was unloading
03.02.2007
A Manitowoc model 12000 has completed its heaviest lift to date raising an 812 tonne cracking unit
02.02.2007
Potain will launch an innovative self erecting tower crane, the Igo T70 at Bauma.
Vertikal.Net recorded 1.7 million hits in January from 57,727 visitors who viewed 431,000 pages.
PopUp has announced an extended version of its popular PopUp push around scissor lift, the PopUp-Plus
Don't let them get away with it. You can now use the C&A website to crack down on the building site thieves
01.02.2007
JLG has been awarded a new $102 million US Army contract for 566 JLG ATLAS II telescopic handlers.
Harsco the US based owner of SGB and Hünnebeck increased the sales of its Access Services division by 37%
PAT-Krueger parent Hirschmann has been acquired from Hg Capital by Belden cable.
31.01.2007
Unic Cranes Europe has appointed the access equipment manufacturer the Clow group as its distribution and rental partner in Scotland.
Manitowoc has announced record revenues, earnings and cash flow for 2006, with crane sales up by 38 percent, for the full year, to $2.24 billion.
30.01.2007
Two young men died when a suspended platform malfunctioned in Mechelen Belgium today.
We have introduced a new video section on Vertikal.Net to host both news and advertising videos. The first is ready to view now.
Fraco, the Canadian based mast climber manufacturer has established a majority owned affiliate in the UK
