Link Belt appoints new district service representatives for South America and the Mid-West USA.
26.12.2011
Cramo and major contractor NCC have signed a ‘Nordic-level frame agreement’ for the supply of rental equipment
25.12.2011
A damaged crane on a job site near Stanstead airport in Essex, UK, caused police to evacuate around 40 people.
23.12.2011
Finn Løkken, managing director of Cramo Norway has submitted his resignation and will leave the rental industry.
UK based crane rental company PP Engineering has taken delivery of its sixth Terex city All Terrain crane,
22.12.2011
Norwegian rental company Drammen Lift Utleie has taken delivery of the first Niftylift Hybrid lift in Norway.
Las Vegas based rental company Ahern Rentals has filed a Chapter 11 petition in order to restructure $500 million of debt.
Dubai-based Al Faris Equipment Rentals has ordered 47 Liebherr mobile cranes worth more than €40 million.
UK based P & C Casey has withdrawn from the sales and put its distribution business into administration.
Two Sennebogen 6130 HD crawler cranes have been supplied to CECC for the Al Ruwais Port extension in Qatar.
Snow vehicle manufacturer Prinoth has mounted a Socage DA328 on a Go-Tract 2000 tracked undercarriage.
Russ Hopper has been promoted to vice president, manufacturing at US based crane manufacturer Link-Belt.
US crane manufacturer Link Belt has promoted Don Moore to the post of vice president, design engineering.
21.12.2011
While pulling photographs from the archive to illustrate an article we spotted what looks like a Death Wish.
UK-based crane rental group MSD has restructured its business with MSD Cranes & Equipment going into liquidation.
Ramirent has acquiredTLM -Tannefors Lift -and its three locations Linköping, Norrköping and Motala Sweden.
Austrian rental company Prangl has purchased three new Liebherr MK self-erecting tower cranes.
20.12.2011
JLG has said that it plans to introduce a control panel protection option for its boom lifts in Europe.
UK based Astra Access Safety Training has moved to new premises in Darton, Barnsley, Yorkshire.
The ‘crane’ accident in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Michigan today was in fact an excavator and not a crane.
Skyjack UK has become one of the first access companies to equip its staff with the ZT safety harness.
The MD of a failed construction company has been fined £80,000 plus £18,495 costs for a 2007 crane accident.
A court in Japan has given the crane operator who crashed into a group of schoolchildren a seven year sentence.
RKP Access Platforms is now fully operational from a base in Tyne and Wear, north east England.
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