A customer in Kuwait needed his two new cranes urgently, so last week Terex Demag sent them by air freight!
12.04.2005
Venture capital company, Odyssey, has acquired Neff corp, Americas ninth largest rental company.
11.04.2005
UK construction orders in the year to February 2005 rose by six per cent compared to the previous twelve month period.
VP, (Vibroplant) owner of UK Forks and Hirepoint report a “very satisfactory year” to the end of March 2005
09.04.2005
Nationwide Access, the UK’s largest powered access rental company, has added over 160 new units to improve availability.
08.04.2005
The Smopyc show in Zaragossa, Spain last month saw a turnout of 85,000 visitors. Macarena Garcia of Spanish crane and Access magazine Movicarga sends us a few news bites.
UK Health and Safety Executive will run its 'Take a Designer to Site' programme during April and May in a campaign to reduce the number of falls from height in the construction industry.
07.04.2005
Two contractors escaped lightly with a £23,000 fine after an employee died after a fall from a ladder while accessing a scaffold.
Yoshihiro Tanno a senior director from Kobe Steel will replace Takashi Ishida as president of Kobelco cranes in June.
Four companies have been fined a total of £90,000 in the UK for a fataility that occurred during the loading of "off hired" rental equipment
Ian James previously owner of Delta Rentals, the Manlift Toucan dealer for the UK, has joined Access Platform Sales Ltd (APS) as General Manager.
06.04.2005
Work at Height Regulations came into force in the UK today, The HSE has published a free guide to the new rules.
Bob Francis crane hire is organising a safety seminar this week for crane users in North Wales.
05.04.2005
The new general manager for JLG UK is Simon Cracknell, he takes up his new post this week.
Facelift of the UK has developed a hovercraft based boom lift for offshore wind farm maintenance applications.
31.03.2005
April
UpRight has recently shipped its first big boom from the new Mexican production plant and yet the company pulled booms from its Conexpo stand.
Versalift has added further production capacity to its Burton Latimer site to meet strong ongoing demand for its range of vehicle-mounted platforms.
30.03.2005
Laho Equipement Frances third largest rental company has been sold to Barclays Private Equity by its venture capital owner, Industri Kapital, for €110 million.
29.03.2005
The Highways Agency may recall contractors to inspect and possibly remedy a number of bridges and gantries in southern England where defective concrete might have been used.
Italian producer Palazzani is launching a telescopic handler created from a front end loader, with dual telescopic arms, at Samoter in May.
Italian articulated truck loader producer, Effer has delivered an order for 15 special trucks with cranes for the Iraq-Syrian oil pipeline.
28.03.2005
Terex has confirmed the $30 million order from AmQuip for Terex-Peiner tower cranes.
24.03.2005
Conexpo 2005, held last week in Las Vegas attracted 124,220 visitors, a new record and 21,220 international visitors, also a record,
