JLG has announced that its Bedford, Pennsylvania facility in the US will be “temporarily idled” by the end of the fiscal year.
07.01.2003
Vertikal.net has teamed up with Air France and Intermat to offer a free trip to Paris – get your entry in now to have a good chance of winning
03.01.2003
Textron has sold its Snorkel Aerial Work Platform business to a group of investors led by the president of FluidTech, a company supplying components to Snorkel
Manitowoc has sold its boom trucks business to meet conditions set by the US government when it bought Grove Worldwide
Welcome to 2003. We wish you a prosperous and successful year - here is our review of 2002.
31.12.2002
Kuiken has agreed to buy Terex-Demag's Benelux subsidiaries with immediate effect.
30.12.2002
Select Plant Hire, part of the Laing O’Rourke Group, has acquired Delta Tower Cranes.
23.12.2002
Ainscough Crane Hire has announced that ex-Baldwins' director Grant Mitchell is to join the Ainscough board
Lavendon group is now considering two “approaches” that could lead to a purchase offer. An independent committee has been set up to consider the offers in case any of the three executive directors are behind the approaches.
Hewden Crane Hire has placed an order with Demag Mobile Cranes for 31 new cranes.
13.12.2002
Visitors to next year’s SED exhibition will have a great opportunity to prove their skills with a state-of-the art knuckleboom crane as Hiab and The Vertikal Press have teamed up to launch the Hiab/Vertikal knuckleboom challenge. [[image 72]]
09.12.2002
The Taylor Crane Company has been acquired out of the Taylor Group of Companies for an undisclosed sum.
02.12.2002
The new owner of Baldwins' mobile cranes is Ainscough crane hire – this gives the company a total fleet size of around 650 Cranes
29.11.2002
The Construction Plant-hire Association has worked with the UK's Health & Safety Executive to clarify how combined "Transport Platforms" can be safely used
28.11.2002
Revenue from telescopic handlers at JLG has doubled for the first quarter of its new financial year
26.11.2002
Richard Baldwin and son Wayne have formed a new company
22.11.2002
The official deadline for anybody wanting to make an offer for Baldwins has now passed and one of the most prominent offers is from a management buyout team headed by three senior managers writes Tim Whiteman
21.11.2002
Tool hire specialist Brandon Hire has acquired Loadtite from PricewaterhouseCoopers - the receivers of Baldwins Industrial Services.
20.11.2002
We have received the sad news that Jake Dieleman, founder of Jakes Cranes in Las Vegas, has died
06.11.2002
Mike Lamb of Grove takes on a portfolio of new responsibilities as part of re-organisation within the Manitowoc Group
01.11.2002
Terex has announced important changes to the Demag and Terex UK operations
29.10.2002
Administrators have been called in at Baldwins, one of the UK’s largest crane rental businesses.
28.10.2002
Danish platform rental companies Riwal Scandinavia A/S and mateco Liftudlejning A/S have agreed to merge activities under the name and management of Riwal Scandinavia A/S
Jean-Yves Bouffault, Executive Vice President of Manitowoc Crane Group in Europe, has appointed his senior management team. This will run the Manitowoc, Potain and Grove operations in Europe.
23.10.2002
