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.
20.12.2011 1
A New York law firm is investigating directors of RSC for possible breaches of duty over the deal with United Rentals.
New rules in Singapore stipulate that all loader crane operators must be tested and certified by Sept 2013.
A photo sent to us by a Dutch reader from the Ukraine, shows the planned misuse of a boom lift.
19.12.2011
UK rental company Hewden has agreed a 12 month deal with Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions for operated plant.
Allan Hemmings, managing director of Peter Hird & Son completed his final work day on Friday with a big send–off.
19.12.2011 1
We have received the dreadful news that Stefano Flisi, son of Fiorenzo Flisi, chief executive of Socage has died.
German crane rental company Wiesbauer has taken delivery of a new 750 tonne Liebherr LR1750 crawler crane.
Italian mobile crane manufacturer Valla has launched the 12 tonne 120EVO battery powered pick & carry crane.
A loader crane went over in the small town of Rælingen, to the east of Oslo, Norway last week.
18.12.2011 2
Joe Pustizzi founder of Trico Equipment, a pioneer in the aerial lift rental business has died aged 96.
18.12.2011
The Movember charity event to raise funds for men’s cancer charities has passed and Team Nifty is celebrating
16.12.2011
Three veterans of the UK crane and access business have just returned from a trip up the Amazon basin
