Vp, previously Vibroplant, the UK rental company, has acquired MEP Hire of Bellshill, Scotland
06.11.2006
Orion Access helped rescue a poppy day ceremony after the fire brigade declined for health and safety reasons.
A section of a self erecting tower crane jib failed on an Edmonton site on Friday, leaving the section dangling.
Arayik Arakelyan has spent the past six years designing a truck crane, for which he has obtained a number of patents. He now hopes that a manufacturer will pick up his ideas.
05.11.2006
Scaffold company, Deborah services and Beechwood Developments have received fines totalling £132,000 after a scaffold tower collapsed.
04.11.2006
Ramirent the Finnish based rental company has acquired two small lift rental companies, one in Sweden and on one in Finland.
03.11.2006
Ken Scott executive chairman of Energy Cranes International and Sparrows Offshore lost his battle with cancer last week.
Spider and truck mounted platform manufacturer Teupen has appointed a new European sales manager
The first Generation 5 harbour crane is working in the Port of Hamburg
JLG has announced that it has called a shareholders meeting for December 4th to decide on the acquisition by Oshkosh.
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.
