Davis Access has expanded its Joystick controller rebuild programme with a range of new options including service exchange.
22.08.2008
High winds in the UK over the past week ripped out many a tree, one in Littlehampton needed teetered over a road and required a lift to help deal with it.
The UK’s HSE has published a new guide ‘The selection and management of mobile elevating work platforms’
21.08.2008
The Gatwick Group of the UK has purchased nine more Hiab loader cranes, taking its fleet to 16 units – All Hiab.
Cranimax the lift planning software company has released the latest Version - V3 – of its Crane Manager Cranimation system.
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Oshkosh, the parent company of JLG, has laid off around 10 percent of its worldwide work force - in order to reduce costs and realign its operations with slower markets.
20.08.2008
A tower crane turned over near Barcelona, Spain yesterday demolishing a house and injuring the operator and another.
UK based insurer Norwich Union has warned builders and other trades about the risks of working at height and issued a Simply Safe guide to working at height.
Power-Lift the German distributor for UpRight Powered access is changing its name to UpRight Powered Access Deutschland.
Modulift has announced a new, exclusive distributor for the West Coast of America.
A couple had a lucky escape this weekend after their light aircraft caught up on power lines in Germany. A range of lifting equipment came to their rescue.
Another day another picture of someone who does not have a clue, this one knowingly used unsafe equipment.
Lavendon UK has introduced a standard of technical excellence -‘TechX’ - Panther's Luton location is the first to achieve the status.
Harsco, owner of SGB and Hünnebeck has appointed Henry W. Knueppel, has a non executive director.
19.08.2008
Access Industry veteran Frank Scarborough and his family survived a fatal bus accident in Mexico last week.
Using an alloy scaffold tower is a safe way of working…. If you use the correct parts
Vp owner of UK Forks one of the leading telehandler rental companies has issued an upbeat first quarter trading statement.
Lampson has completed the erection of one of its LTL2600 Transilift cranes, replacing at the Black Thunder mine in Wyoming, following the collapse of an LTL1100 at the end of May.
After a full review Tanfield, owner of Snorkel and UpRight says that it will lay-off fewer employees than it had planned.
18.08.2008
Aerial lift manufacturer Genie is building a 17,600 square metre parts and logistics warehouse in North Bend Washington.
Australian crane and access company Boom Logistics has reported full year revenues up 17%, while profits slipped 43%.
Hull based cranes and access company Peter Hird has announced a new management team for its training division.
Southampton, UK, based Selwood Plant has acquired Proplant of Cardiff, its second acquisition in the last two months – the company purchased Glo Hire in July.
In spite of all the recent uproar about tower crane safety around the world we have been sent a video of what we think is highly dangerous operation on a Dublin site.
