News is just in that AFI, the Wakefield based access rental company, is to merge with UpLift also based in Wakefield
12.09.2006
Finning has sold its UK material handling division to Briggs Equipment. In order to focus on Hewden, Diperk and its UK Caterpillar distribution businesses.
11.09.2006
Tower crane producer, Wolffkran, has opened a sales and service operation in Sint-Amands, Belgium.
Spotted on a recent sales trip to the Caribbean was none other than Peter Hird.
Grove-Manlift boom lift crashed into a building last week after running away while being unloaded from a low loader.
09.09.2006
A Unic mini crane has become embroiled in a local dispute over the safety of Hastings pier in the UK.
A crane driver was trapped in the cab of his crane yesterday when it left the A-658 near Harrogate, in the UK and rolled over.
Next week the doors to the second Hoogwerkerdagen exhibition and industry "get-together", open in Harderwijk Holland
08.09.2006
Contractor Bovis Lend Lease, has been fined £5,000 plus £7,632 costs, after a subcontractor’s employee on a site in Leeds suffered a fall.
SafeWorks, the parent of Power Climber and Spider has been sold to Wynnchurch Capital Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm
The workmen involved in the fatal accident on North Promenade in St Annes last Monday have been named. The HSE has also released the machine.
07.09.2006
Al Laith scaffolding is set to enter the self propelled powered access rental market in the Middle East, starting with a fleet of almost 100 units.
06.09.2006
Ranger Equipment, UK distributor for Teupen, has appointed a qualified tree surgeon to promote its products to arborists.
Heavy-duty scissor manufacturer Holland-Lift has completed its new assembly facility
Selling cranes these days could not be much easier, but buying is a challenge, an auction later this month has a large number of All Terrains on the block.
The Suomen Joutsen a full rigger ship from 1902 has had its masts painted in a more modern way than usual.
Another tragic accident has occurred on an aerial lift, once again we the man who died would be fit and well today if he had worn a harness.
At the recent Platformers Days in Germany, Dutch access company HWS ordered six new lifts that will take the fleet up over 500 units
A letter in yesterday hit a nerve with us, commenting on the number of deaths in the crane and access industry in recent weeks.
05.09.2006
Tat Hong Holdings Ltd, the Singapore based crane rental company is establishing a joint venture rental business in China.
A man in his 40’s died yesterday when a scissor lift, working at a height of between nine and 10 metres, tipped over in Blackpool.
The Lavendon Group has published its first half results this morning, which are better than the preliminary numbers it issued in July.
Nearly 6000 structural bolts on four container cranes built by Shanghai Zenhua Port Machinery Co are below specifications and have to be replaced.
04.09.2006
A workman has been killed and another seriously injured in St Anne's, Blackpool when the scisor lift in which they were working toppled over.
