Midland Access Platforms of the UK, has taken delivery of a Ruthmann TB220 telescopic boom on a Mercedes chassis.
03.01.2008
Power Climber, the suspended platform manufacturer has appointed Eric Thormann as MD. Germain Vanhulle, vice president International, will retire later in 2008.
02.01.2008
The new Liverpool Arena has purchased five new Genie lifts from Working At Height.
Tat Hong subsidiary - Sunfield Investments is to change its name to Yongmao Holdings and has been approved for listing on the Singapore stock exchange’s main board.
UK based Loadwise International has announced a new range of wireless rated load indicators.
Continental Crane of southern California is adding 30 big RT cranes to its bare lease fleet, including 10 Link Belt 90 ton RTC 8090.
Vertikal.Net ended the year surprisingly chalking up some new records
01.01.2008
We would like to wish all of our readers and supporters a very happy and prosperous 2008.
New categories within the IPAF aerial work platform training programme come into force from tomorrow.
31.12.2007
Port Services and Sarens teamed up earlier this month to return a 450 tonne buoy to the water.
28.12.2007
A 45 metre tower crane came crashing down from a building in Saigon yesterday, thankfully there were no fatalities.
The driver of a tanker died yesterday after hitting the boom of a Rough Terrain crane that was crossing a highway.
27.12.2007
The acquisition of Coates Hire, the Australian rental company, by the Carlyle Group and National Hire Group has been approved and completed.
24.12.2007
Chris Goddard has been promoted to CEO of Australian aerial lift company Force Corp (Previously Australian Skyreach)
Strongco has completed the sale of its Ontario aerial lift operations to Voisins Equipment.
Atlas Copco will write off its options on additional payments for RSC in the belief that poorer earnings than expected will fail to trigger any payout.
United Rentals has lost its bid to force Cerberus to complete its $4 billion takeover.
Morrow Equipment has ordered 10 Alimak Scando 650 FC-S dual hoist systems.
21.12.2007
We have posted two new videos in our video section one serious and one less than serious.
A Rough Terrain crane tipped over trapping the operator on Fort Worth Texas Its outriggers were down but not out.
The UK’s CPA is warning its members to beware of a man called Wayne Fletcher of Fletcher construction after he stole over 20 pieces of construction equipment.
20.12.2007
The Lavendon Group has issued an upbeat trading statement for 2007 saying that it expects to come in above its latest forecasts.
Finnish rental company Ramirent has acquired Tidermans/ Hyresmaskiner in Sweden.
Liebherr has reported first nine months revenues up by over 15% to €5.34 billion ($7.7 billion) with Construction products growing at a rate of over 18%.
19.12.2007
