Two window cleaners fell from the 47th floor of a New York skyscraper when their suspended platform malfunctioned.
10.12.2007
Dutch based rental company Riwal has opened its first location in Kazakhstan, selling and renting aerial lifts, skid steer loaders and portable compressors.
The acquisition of DK Rental Belgium/France by the Lavendon group has been approved at a Lavendon EGM today.
From 2 January 2008 Teupen will launch Service Point - for parts and technical queries.
One of our regular visitors has alerted us to a new fraud in the UK involving a delivery service.
The Moog 250 underbridge platform involved in the rail accident back in February is back in the ES Access fleet.
The UK government will announce a massive expansion in its wind-farm construction programme today.
JLG is stepping up its European product support efforts with a massive recruitment programme seeking parts proffessionals.
09.12.2007
Southern Crane, of Raleigh, South Carolina, has appointed Josh Payne as its director of business development.
07.12.2007
Gam, Spain’s largest rental company has reported nine month revenues up almost 62% following its acquisition of Vilatel.
330 staff from AFI-Uplift, the UK powered access rental company, celebrated 50% sales growth with its ‘Big Bash’ event
Palfinger has obtained approval from the Austrian and German anti-trust authorities for the takeover of MBB Liftsystems AG
German tower crane company Wilbert has shipped its 99th and 100th crane this week.
MT Højgaard has finally sold its remaining 50% holding in Danish crane rental company, BMS ,to the Enggaard family.
06.12.2007
JLG has opened its fourth U.S. ServicePlus Centre in Riverside, California, to provide aftermarket support in California, Nevada and Arizona.
Special access platforms have been designed to carry out maintenance work on the large hammerhead crane in Sydney harbour.
Sharon Winter, founder of Supa Scaffolding, has won the Everywoman Athena Award for outstanding entrepreneurial success.
Peter Frisk the founder Zip-Up Svenska has died of a heart attack at his summer home in Sweden.
Mateco has appointed a new managing director , Hans-Hasso Kersten
Skyjack and AWPT have teamed up to offer free training and information sessions for North American government regulatory bodies.
05.12.2007
GGR Unic has held its first health & safety exhibition for two major contractors, highlighting equipment for material handling.
As we expected, we have received nothing but condemnation of that tower crane counterweight get up we published a few hours ago.
The latest issue of Cranes&Access is now available to read online or download.
The following photo of a tower crane counterweight in Dublin was received today, tell us if you think it is fit for purpose?
