Oshkosh Truck has made a $3 billion agreed bid for JLG which could be completed in 90 days.
16.10.2006
Wembley stadium is set to be ready to welcome football fans by the end of the season after the FA and contractor Multiplex resolve differences.
Gottwald has made a presentation to its Italian agent CIBI S.p.A recognising 40 year’s collaboration.
15.10.2006
Active sales and rental has reached an agreement with IPS to sell UpRight powered access in Scotland.
Haulotte is pressing ahead with its two new production facilities in Spain and Romania with production at both plants beginning in January 2007.
13.10.2006
Skylift Hire, the Limerick based aerial lift and telehandler rental company, has extended its deport network to Dublin.
German sales and service company, Powerlift, is to supply a safety harness with every boom lift it sells.
The first Bronto S46XDT purchased by Mammoth, the new UK truck mounted aerial lift company has arrived.
KPMG has begun scaling down Universal Aerial Platforms as negations for the sale of the two remaining businesses continues.
12.10.2006
Bravi is to introduce an entirely new controller and electrical system for its Leonardo lifts.
Skylift Hire is sponoring Radio 2FM's CT scanner fundraiser for a local childrens hospital
11.10.2006
JLG is expected to build its new 12ft mast type electric lift which will compete with the UpRight TM12, in France.
Kranlyft and Caledonian cranes have announced a new “fast response” national rental network for Maeda cranes, with six locations across the UK.
10.10.2006
Kranlyft UK unveiled a new Maeda mini crane today, the M405 it’s largest to date. It also showed off its new premises in Avonmouth and announced a new rental initiative.
EPL has purchased a 32 metre working height CTE Z32 As part of its fleet renewal programme.
Five men have been jailed in China after a lifting accident.
The Health and Safety Executive has published a report into the death of a construction worker killed by a falling load.
09.10.2006
Height for Hire is offering a £5,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of two Manitou telehandlers.
Private equity firm Northwest Capital Appreciation Inc. has bought Northern Crane Services of Edmonton, Alberta for about $60 million.
JCB has apparently entered the access market, selling JCB branded ladders and folding scaffold bases though its distribution channels.
06.10.2006
Atlas Copco has today announced the majority stake sale of RSC Equipment Rental for $3.8 billion
Another two men have died this week after being catapulted out of the basket of a boom lift, this time in France.
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.