Altrex the Dutch based producer of Alloy scaffold towers, staging, ladders and suspended platforms was in London this week looking for a UK distributor
27.01.2005
JLG Industries has announced the appointment of Thomas Capo and Kim Foster to its Board of Directors, expanding JLG’s Board to ten members.
Sky Access the Swiss sales and rental company that until recently represented JLG in Switzerland has taken on the Skyjack scissor lift range.
25.01.2005
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging British companies to ignore all correspondence from a firm calling itself the "Health and Safety Registration Enforcement Division".
24.01.2005
The Hire Show opens iat Londons Excel centre on Wednesday next week for two days, entry is free to those in the industry.
22.01.2005
Haulotte reports that revenues for 2004 rose by 30 percent compared to 2003, with net profits forecast at five percent. The group expect revenues in 2005 to increase by a further 15 to 20 percent.
21.01.2005
Nationwide Access has opened two new training centres, which it says will serve businesses along the M4 corridor in the south west and south Wales regions.
20.01.2005
The Bologna-based knuckle boom crane producer, Effer, has announced an 18-percent year-on-year sales increase in 2004.
The first of the new Terex-Demag 55 tonne AC55 City cranes have arrived in the UK.
McDermott Bros, was fined £150,000 yesterday after a man died following a fall at work. The HSE issue a statement on Harnesses and the use of Proper work platforms.
19.01.2005
Manitowoc has announced that it will break ground next month on a new crane production plant in China, twice the size of its current Potain facility.
A group of 40 Crane people from Sweden saw the arrival in Europe of Tadano’s new Rough Terrain crane the GR 300 EX from Japan, while at the company’s German plant.
Cramo has appointed Erik van Leeuwenstijn as president of Cramo Netherlands and announced new presidents for Cramo Finland and Cramo Latvia.
18.01.2005
Unic Cranes Europe will launch a new 1,000 kg crane which, they claim, will be the worlds smallest, at SMOPYC in Zaragoza, Spain this March.
17.01.2005
UK Forks has promoted its former sales and marketing director Haydn Davies to the positon of divisional director.
The International Powered Access Federation is offering Safety officers the chance to win a pair of tickets to a premiership football match for checking that users of aerial lifts have PAL cards, proving that they have received proper training in the safe use of aerial work platforms.
Volvo Rents has signed a franchising agreement with TE.CO the operator of the Italnolo rental franchises in Italy. There are currently 35 Italnolo outlets across northern Italy.
Veidekke, the Norwegian construction group which until November held 16 percent of Finland’s Ramirent, has liquidated its holding.
Here is a story, which proves that we do not always have our finger on the pulse when it comes to events in the UK access industry, We finally report and congratulate Roger Wickens and Anne James on their not so recent marriage.
16.01.2005
Palfinger delivers its 150,000th crane, a PK 100002 Performance, to Spanish customer Poncal.
14.01.2005
We understand that negotiations are going on between UK platforms and Loxam regarding the purchase of the Ireland Access business by Loxam, while this deal seems to be a fait accompli locally, neither company would confirm the transaction nor comment on it.
Terex, owner of Demag cranes and Genie platforms, has filed fomr 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the USA disclosing that the accounts for years 2001, 2002 and 2003 contain errors and will need to be restated.
Wumag has delivered its 3,000th truck mounted platform to long time German customer, Schmidt Arbeitsbühnen of Neu Isenburg.
13.01.2005
Nationwide Access has supplied the one of the UK’s tallest scissor lifts to Donkin Roofing for cladding work on a 25-metre high steel framed high bay pallet storage warehouse at Tilbury Docks.
