Rotterdam based rental company Peinemann is entering the big truck mounted aerial lift market
13.07.2007
J. Martin Benchoff died at 1:20 am this morning at his home in Rouzerville near Waynesboro, Pennsylvania.
12.07.2007
Bard Capital a private equity firm has led a buy-out of US based crane rental company, Amquip.
JCB has donated a Loadall 540/140 telehandler to the Black Country Living Museum.
A crane moving a pizza oven fell onto a classroom in Kansas.
Crane and Access veteran Ray Ledger has lead an MBO at Kimberly Access.
JCB has reveresed a decision on pay at its UK plants after a majority voted to go out on strike.
A crane drops into an old septic tank after it gave way under its outriggers.
11.07.2007
TVH has added hydraulic generators, built by UK Generators, to its aerial platform catalogue.
The latest Cranes&Access magazine is now on line and ready to read or download.
Two men were killed by crane counterweights as they helped to remove them in two separate incidents in Toledo Ohio on Monday
Facelift Access provided The Brighton Theatre Group with an Aichi platform for a stunt flight for the ‘The Witches of Eastwick’.
Details on what exactly happened in yesterday’s fatal tower crane accident in Hong Kong are still sketchy, but here is a brief update.
J. Martin Benchoff, former chairman and CEO of Grove manufacturing is in a coma and not expected to recover.
10.07.2007
Hewden is holding its annual summer equipment auction this Saturday.
A 680kg steel demolition broke free from a crane in Pennsylvania rolling off on a 1.2 kilometres downhill run, damaging more than a dozen cars.
A tower crane collapsed in central Hong Kong this morning killing two men.
A foundation crane crashed over onto a brand new house near Groningen in Holland yesterday virtually demolishing it.
09.07.2007
Linamar, owner of Skyjack aerial lifts has been named as a 'Strategic Supplier' of cylinder heads to Caterpillar.
A driver who hit a railway bridge with his loader crane due to “gross negligence” has been awarded €5,000 in compensation for unfair dismissal.
Loxam has moved into the Scandinavian market with the purchase of DNE-JJ the business formed from the recent merger of DNE Materieludlejning and JJ Maskinudlejning.
A story is emerging of how a man died in Hull simply because the rescue services refused to call in a crane.
07.07.2007
Planet Platforms of West Yorkshire has added five Volkswagen transporter vans to its fleet.
06.07.2007
The inquest into the death of Mark Thornton, the man who died when a mobile crane collapsed in Liverpool in March, has been postponed until October.
