JLG has announced that it has called a shareholders meeting for December 4th to decide on the acquisition by Oshkosh.
03.11.2006
UK based Facelift Access Hire has purchased 10 big deck Skyjack 9250’s.
Delhi-based Mobile crane and Aerial lift manufacturer, ACE, is close to completing an Eastern European acquisition
In an accident yesterday, very similar to the fatal one in Manchester earlier this week, two men were unharmed thanks to wearing the right gear.
The man who died when he was thrown from his platform after it was hit by a bus in Manchester, has been named.
The first Yongmao tower crane in the UK is already on site and working.
02.11.2006
The Powered Access Interest Group within the UK CPA is to call an extraordinary meeting to discuss the use of harnesses with boom lifts
The UK HSE has released the official accident statistics for the 12 months to April 2006.
By popular request here is our visual tour of last weeks SAIE show in Bologna.
City lifting and Lee lifting of the UK provided a number of cranes on long distance rental on location in the Bahamas.
01.11.2006
Panther Platform Rentals’ has opened its new national service centre, for the repair and refurbishment of aerial lifts.
A man died this morning in Manchester after he was thrown from his work platform after it was hit by a double decker bus.
A 100 metre Ruthmann trailer mounted boom lift has arrived in the UK where it is booked on a number of projects.
October saw another jump in the readership of Vertikal.Net achieving a new all tie record of 1.36 million hits and over 47,000 visitors.
Strong winds toppled a 200 ton Link Belt lattice truck crane in Portland Maine on Sunday.
Easi UpLifts, the international arm of Irish based Height for Hire, has purchased premises near Banbury in central England.
31.10.2006
Omme Lift is preparing to start work on an extension to its production facility in Sdr Omme, which will almost double the usable covered space.
Powered Access Sales and Service will provide a full harness and adjustable lanyard as standard on all new boom lifts
Certex has opened a new regional distribution centre in Aberdeen, targeted at improving its lifting gear service to the offshore market.
The Platform Company sponsored employee Lindsey Lewis in a first time parachute jump in aid of charity.
30.10.2006
RK, the Finnish rental group that includes Cramo-Cat Rental stores, is to change its name to Cramo Oy at the end of the year.
Finning the Caterpillar dealer for the UK has agreed to supply R Hunt with CAT brand telehandlers, the first order, for 30 units, has already started to ship.
Speedy Hire, the UK’s tool hire company, has acquired Lifting Gear Hire Ltd one of the largest specialist lifting gear rental companies.
Late last week we had a number of calls saying that Malcolm Bowers, the well known UK access entrepreneur, planned to start a new business.
