Manitowoc has made a £975 million bid for Enodis plc a British based food equipment business, previously known as S&W Berisford..
08.06.2006
Terex Demag has delivered four first article test cranes to the US Marine Corps, 130 further units will be ordered if the units pass the test programme.
VP, owner of UK Forks, one of Europe’s largest telehandler rental companies, has reported full year revenues up 10% to £99.4 million.
Ashtead, owner of A-Plant and Sunbelt saw its shares plummet after a large institutional investor cashed out. Goldman Sachs has moved in picking up almost 6% of the company.
Palazzani is formally appointing PASS as its UK/Ireland distributor, cementing a relationship that dates back over 13 years.
We have had an urgent request from a company in central UK looking for crane drivers, and are finally looking at adding a recruitment section to Vertikal.Net.
07.06.2006
It seems that our coverage of the Flying Carpet truck mounted scissor lift has spurred a number of you to send us other examples.
The HSE says that today's mobile phone culture is putting tradesmen's lives at risk. A new Height Aware campaign highlights the dangers.
06.06.2006
Liebherr has officially started production and sales of its telehandler machines.
Platform Sales and Hire Ltd has launched a new vehicle mounted scissor lift, dubbed the Flying Carpet.
05.06.2006
The Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) in Malaysia has increased its container handling capacity to six million TEUs following the addition of three, new-generation cranes.
Insul 8 a leading player in harbour crane electrification and data transfer systems has changed its name to Conductix
We will close the next Cranes&Access, our dealer guide issue, in three weeks, if you have any input, now is the time to send it in.
A second Rough Terrain crane tipped over on the Interstate 25 near Colorado Springs, less than five weeks after a man was killed doing the same job.
04.06.2006
MEC Europe has appointed H.A.B. Service Centre GmbH as a dealer in Germany.
02.06.2006
PAT the producer of load moment indication systems for cranes and platforms - has restructured its retrofit business.
Three men died on Tuesday when the jib and counterweight of a tower crane collapsed, killing two men on the ground and one on the crane.
Vertikal.Net clocked up another new record in May with over 40,000 visitors and 1.1 million hits.
01.06.2006
Neff Corp, the Miami based rental company, completed a regulatory filing on Friday to float the company, barely a year after it was purchased by a private equity firm.
CRMS the South West UK based, Case and Manitou dealer has entered administration.
Favelle Favco has confirmed that it will float on Malaysia’s second market in August and may qualify for its principal market by the end of 2007.
31.05.2006
Facelift Access Hire of Hickstead, UK, has achieved the IPAF Rental-Plus status.
Harsco Chairman and CEO, Derek Hathaway will ring the New York stock exchange’s closing bell tomorrow (June 1) to celebrate its 50th year as a listed company.
A man has died after a telehandler fitted with a larger non-CE platform, tipped over in County Cork at the weekend.
