A-Plant has appointed Steve Shaughnessy as managing director of its Specialist Products business, Paul Fereday takes over as managing director of the Plant and Tool Hire business.
23.05.2006
Grove is in the process of consulting its staff in the Sunderland area as it considers a move to a new UK location further south.
22.05.2006
We can now confirm categorically what we already knew, that Quigley United Kingdom Ltd ceased trading on May 12th.
Alimak has delivered its 2,000th container crane elevator. The crane elevator business which began in the 1970’s is now a significant business.
The official statistics for Intermat 2006 show a 16% rise in visitors, 45% of them international!
Italian self propelled producer Bravi had a good SED, selling all of the machines on its stand, most of them to Access Plus Scotland.
Over the past few weeks we have had a steady stream calls regarding the failure of Quigley UK Ltd. We have struggled to categorically confirm the situation. Until now.
Aimed at the building sector, Penny Hydraulics has launched the Swing Lift Foldaway 1000.
21.05.2006
Despite the traffic conjestion and poor weather, the general consensus on SED 2006 was favourable. Here are a few more highlights from the show.
20.05.2006
You may have noticed the problems we have had placing information on line this past week or so. It seems we were running into capacity problems. We have therefore expanded our storage space today by a further 25%.
19.05.2006
Mantis Cranes unveiled its new TC25 self-erecting trailer crane at SED hoping to attract the attention of both small and large contractors.
While thousands queued up to get into SED a slightly smaller number of exhibitors and visitors met up in Milton Keynes.
The first models of Kramer's new telehandler range were on show at SED. The brand-new machines have been introduced following well over a year of intensive research and development
Here are a few highlights from day two and three of SED, the UK equipment show.
City Lifting has entered the mini crane market and purchased the 200th Unic crane sold in Europe.
When the Whittle brothers established their new access business, they were able to register one the best possible names available.
Kranlyft, the Maeda and Kato cranes distributor across Europe, is to enter the UK mini crane rental market in June.
17.05.2006
French rental company Loxam has purchased Dutch access company Spreeuwenberg
SED, the UK construction equipment show opened its gates today, once inside the show, most were very complimentary.
Yet another man has died through not wearing a harness in a boom lift, while a second man is seriously injured.
16.05.2006
Morris Material Handling has gained Safe-contractor accreditation.
Liebherr has announced details and issued a photo of its new truck mounted cranes.
15.05.2006
A surprise at SED today is the arrival of the equipment for the Aerial stand, in terms of its colour and branding.
Unic mini cranes has arrived at SED after all. City Lifting has added Unic mini cranes to its range. Italmec are also exhibiting on the PowerLift stand.
