We have received the tragic news that Lee Kramer, president of Xtreme manufacturing, has passed away
19.01.2015 1
UK rental company JMS Access has taken delivery of its 1,000th aerial work platform.
19.01.2015
Spotted at Frankfurt Höscht station last week, contractors struggling with their access equipment
19.01.2015 3
US based We Energies has taken delivery of its first Ondyne hybrid powered Terex Utilities bucket trucks
UK rental company Lifterz has updated its service fleet with the delivery of six new service vans.
16.01.2015
Konecranes UK has appointed Natasha Cairns, its first female field service technician
Manitex closed its acquisition of Italy’s PM group yesterday and said it will build PM cranes in America
Maxim Crane has appointed Allen Wenturine as industrial account manager in the North East region
A loader crane overturned yesterday on a job site in Israel after failing to use suitable mats or cribbing
15.01.2015
Rental group Lavendon has issued a full year trading statement, and expects to be near the top end of its forecasts
Exceptionally strong winds are blamed for the collapse of a tower crane in central Moscow yesterday.
UK rental company Fork Rent has placed a record order for Manitou MT625 telehandlers and boom lifts
14.01.2015
The Lotte World Tower in Seoul, Korea, has taken delivery of a 42 metre TCA Falcon FS420 spider lift.
JCB has been fined £25,000 after an employee was crushed on the telehandler production line in Rocester, UK
Limerick-based machinery dealer Adare Machinery has been appointed a Bobcat and Doosan Heavy distributor
UK distributor CLM Construction Supplies has moved to a new, larger premises in Bilston, West Midlands
Palfinger has acquired NDM which supplies winches and handling equipment to the marine and offshore sectors
Daniel Pitzer has replaced Georg Diesch as president of Liebherr Cranes Inc in the USA
14.01.2015 2
UK Genie dealer Workplatform has appointed Dean Brooks, of Genie Europe, as operations manager
German access company Mateco has acquired Wolfsburg based access rental company Irmler Wob-Lift.
A crawler crane overturned on a wind farm in Janneby, Germany, last Friday during gale force winds.
14.01.2015 3
A reader has sent in a video of a man working on an air conditioning unit using a series of ladders.
UK rental company AFI has appointed Carlo Vinci to the newly-created position of customer service director.
Australia’s NQ Group of Brisbane has acquired CQ Group of Nebo, Queensland bringing two crane businesses together
