Another two men have died this week after being catapulted out of the basket of a boom lift, this time in France.
06.10.2006
The two intrepid walkers form Devon, Trevor Chinn and Grant Rogers, arrived at John O’Groats around two hours ago.
Newcastle based telehandler rental company, Geoff Huntley Plant Ltd, has entered the access rental business with 10 Manitou booms.
Teupen, the aerial lift producer has established a Joint Venture company in China to produce its spider and truck mounted lifts.
A town council in the UK has rented an aerial lift to pick conkers (Horse chestnuts) for local children to prevent damage to nearby buildings.
Tadano Faun is expanding its factory in Lauf, Germany in order to increase production by more than 30% next year.
The New York site that had a near miss on Friday has returned to work, but the crane operator and site safety co-coordinator are among those issued with citations.
05.10.2006
JLG will launch its Toucan Junior 8 ‘Lite’ at the SAIE exhibition in Bologna later this month
04.10.2006
Mark Rigby took over from Alan Johnson as the chairman of loader crane association, ALLMI at yesterday’s general meeting
German based loader crane manufacturer, Tirre has appointed Harsh UK as its distributor for the UK and Ireland.
Terex has appointed a new president of its Aerial Work Platform business, allowing Bob Wilkerson to move to a new role.
The LTC Access team hope to reach John O’Groats tomorrow
Terex has concluded the sale of its 80.5% interest in Tatra to Blue River s.r.o. for approximately $57.8 million
UK crane hirer, NMT, has presented a cheque to the Willen Hospice following its charity crane event at the recent Bedford festival.
UK based Mackay Plant Hire has taken delivery of a new 26-tonne Mercedes Actros 2532 rigid, with beaver tail bed to deliver its range of telescopic handlers.
03.10.2006
The EU Court of Justice has raised the fine imposed on telehandler producer, JCB to €30.9 million in a case involving anti competitive distribution contracts.
A man was fatally injured unloading a boom lift, a harness might have saved him.
The UK HSE shut down three construction sites in Chester last week for poor safety while working at height
02.10.2006
Facelift, the Hickstead based access company, has joined the British Ladder Manufacturers Association
JLG has appointed Bill Dovey as its product champion for scissor lift products.
In spite of September being a 30 day month, Vertikal.Net posted a new record with over 1.3 million hits.
A 130 metre, luffing tower crane narrowly missed collapse in New York last night as it was going through a climbing sequence.
30.09.2006
The Access Link, the UK association of independent access rental companies, met yesterday, the first time since the departure of UpLift
29.09.2006
A 32ft scissor lift was recently modified for an unusual leisure application in Denmark.
28.09.2006
