Bradley Jacobs, founder and chairman of United Rentals, the world’s largest rental company has resigned with immediate effect.
03.09.2007
Suspended access company, Spider has made two new hires in the Gulf Coast region.
01.09.2007
An ancient Mammoths tusk was unearthed this week in San Diego Brewer Crane had the job of removing it.
A crane tipped over this week while removing a portable building at a school in Suffolk.
We have just about managed to replace two days of news stories after the hardware crash on Thursday, they are inserted into the original time slots.
31.08.2007
Manitowoc has appointed Mike Wood as global product manager for Crawler cranes.
An employee of Kone cranes was crushed by a falling steel beam at a site in Colnbrook, near Heathrow airport on Wednesday.
Panther Platform Rentals recently helped The National Trust with work at the historical Stowe Landscape Gardens
A crane lifting tree limbs on a mobile home park in Roy, Utah found it all too much yesterday.
Coates Hire of Australia has announced that its strategic review is complete and that none of the bids it received were of sufficient interest.
A large articulated boom tipped over in Nottingham, UK, after a manhole cover gave way.
30.08.2007
You will have noticed that our news service has been out of action since midnight last night.
Cramo of Finland has established a new joint venture in Russia with Moscow based crane and access company Rentakran.
One of five remaining Titan cranes on the river Clyde is set to disappear from the Glasgow skyline
Mechan, the Sheffield, UK, based manufacturer of lifting equipment for the rail industry has been bought by its managers.
29.08.2007
An apprentice operator was killed in Montana, when a crane he was working on was started.
The overloading of a lattice crane boom section on a crawler crane in Connecticut yesterday cased havoc.
28.08.2007 1
Two adventurous ladies are planning to cycle across the Rajasthan region of India in five days in aid of the Lighthouse club.
28.08.2007
JLG has donated a further $500,000 to the Fulton County Medical Center in McConnellsburg.
Jim Roest of Riwal is moving to Brazil in order to establish a Brazilian sales and rental operation for the company.
27.08.2007
JCB is investing RS300 billion in an extension to its existing plant at Ballabgarh in India.
We bring you the breaking news from this weekend’s Platformers days along with a small selection from the 750 photos that the Vertikal team took of the event.
Two bridge workers have been injured while using an underbridge unit in Winnipeg.
The Acquisition of CVS Ferrari by Cargotec/Kalmar has been banned by the German anti-competition authorities
