The draft British Standard BS.8454 for delivery of training for work at height, is currently out for comment with the 31st of March as the deadline. It now seems that the BSI has arbitrarily brought the deadline forward.
02.03.2006
The new Russon Access Platforms Ltd is now operational from new offices at The White house, Station Road, West Hagley, Stourbridge.
01.03.2006
Ingersoll Rand has year end results indicate that Bobcat sales were up by 12% in the last quarter and by 18% plus, for the full year.
3B6, the overload device and electronics company, has appointed Peter Hird & Sons Ltd as its distributor for the UK. Hird has established 3B6-UK to market and support the product.
The February statistics are just in for vertikal.net 32,866 people logged onto the site in the 28 days of February. With just under a million hits.
Bill Green adds to the Red diesel debate
28.02.2006
Ramirent, the Helsinki based rental company has reported sales up 23% to €389 million, with a 39% increase in EBITDA.
We have received reports of another truck mounted lift accident, in which the operators were not wearing a harness and were thrown out of the basket.
27.02.2006
IPS, the UK based parts and service provider, has announced a further expansion to its business with the opening on March first of IPS France.
The sanctions imposed on the UK National Construction College have been reduced, allowing the five colleges to begin to return to normal.
Accès Industrie of Tonneins France, has received a €20 million capital injection from venture capital company, Butler Capital Partners.
A tower crane operator who suffered chest pains while working 100 metres above Los Angeles, was rescued by helicopter on Thursday.
26.02.2006
Manitowoc has approved a two for one stock split, shareholders will receive one new share for each old on they are holding at the end of March.
25.02.2006
JLG industries has announced a two for one stock split effective March 13th along with a quarterly dividend of a penny a share.
24.02.2006
After a fatal accident in the Middle East earlier this month, when the bearing on a boom lift became detached from its chassis, contractor Carillion grounded all lifts in the region.
EPL Access supplied a Wumag WT-450 to help clean 15 year old graffiti from Shropshire’s famous landmark, the Wrekin.
Dave Faultless, currently UK product manager for ManiAccess, will leave Manitou on March 24th, to move to Perth Australia as Genie’s regional sales manager.
23.02.2006
Some 15 years after it launched the HR10 and 12, Nifty has introduced a new 4x4 version of this popular boom lift. The first units shipped this month.
JLG has released its second quarter and first half results, which show revenues of $972 million for the six months, a rise of 47% on 2004. Net income was $53 million compared to a loss of $1.2 million last year.
The Lavendon group, Europe’s, largest aerial lift rental company has purchased Kestrel powered access, its second Acquisition in two weeks.
22.02.2006
Hiab the loader crane manufacturer has announced two senior appointments.
21.02.2006
The Tanfield Group, owner of Aerial lift, is proposing to raise up to £12 million for acquisitions.
20.02.2006
Tim Whiteman, MD of IPAF, follows up on Scott McCalls letter, regarding the UK governments attitude to the withdrawal of tax rebated diesel from aerial lifts.
Terex has completed the restatement of its 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 accounts and filed its accounts for 2004, following a SEC investigation.
