For the German speakers amongst you the latest Kran&Bühne magazine is now available on line to read or download.
21.04.2005
JCB has won a Queens award for Enterprise for its backhoe loader products.
Pinguely-Haulotte has announced a jump of 71 percent in its first quarter revenues compared to the same period in 2004. On a like for like basis the improvement was 61 percent.
Ramirent has agreed the purchase of Swedish rental company Hyrgruppen Sverige AB for SK37 million (£2.75 million)
20.04.2005
An 80 tonne Tadano Faun ATF 80-4 is dwarfed by one of Hamburgs massive Kocks dock cranes.
Arcomet the Belgian based tower crane producer and rental company has ordered 28 Potain tower cranes for Arcomet France, its French subsidiary.
19.04.2005
Fassi, Genie and Hitachi were short listed for this years SED Cranes and Access award for excellence, with Fassi piping the other two at the post with its F215/235AXP..
18.04.2005
A 14 year old Nifty lift, mounted to a Sno-Cat returns from the icy wastes of Antarctica, for a refit.
A marble and granite supplier has been fined following the death of an employee due to lack of a lift plan and improper slinging/securing of the load.
The latest issue of Cranes&Access features Straight Boomed aerials, All Terrain cranes and refurbishments & rebuilds in addition to News and regular features
15.04.2005
IPAF has announced a one month extension to its proof of training campaign that awards premier football tickets to those who show their PAL cards. The March Winners have also been announced
14.04.2005
SGB has appointed Ray Evans as UK sales director for its SGB Youngman ladder and alloy tower business.
13.04.2005
Knuckle Boom producer Effer, has won an order for 50 cranes from Frans Bonhomme, for plastic pipe distribution in France.
Dutch Rental Company HWS has purchased a combination of 70 JLG aerial lifts and telehandlers from JLG distributor Riwal.
12.04.2005
A customer in Kuwait needed his two new cranes urgently, so last week Terex Demag sent them by air freight!
Venture capital company, Odyssey, has acquired Neff corp, Americas ninth largest rental company.
11.04.2005
UK construction orders in the year to February 2005 rose by six per cent compared to the previous twelve month period.
VP, (Vibroplant) owner of UK Forks and Hirepoint report a “very satisfactory year” to the end of March 2005
09.04.2005
Nationwide Access, the UK’s largest powered access rental company, has added over 160 new units to improve availability.
08.04.2005
The Smopyc show in Zaragossa, Spain last month saw a turnout of 85,000 visitors. Macarena Garcia of Spanish crane and Access magazine Movicarga sends us a few news bites.
UK Health and Safety Executive will run its 'Take a Designer to Site' programme during April and May in a campaign to reduce the number of falls from height in the construction industry.
07.04.2005
Two contractors escaped lightly with a £23,000 fine after an employee died after a fall from a ladder while accessing a scaffold.
Yoshihiro Tanno a senior director from Kobe Steel will replace Takashi Ishida as president of Kobelco cranes in June.
Four companies have been fined a total of £90,000 in the UK for a fataility that occurred during the loading of "off hired" rental equipment
