We added a dramatic new video to our video library earlier this week here is a link to it with a little background.
11.12.2010
UK rental company Premier Platforms has become one of the first training centres to offer IPAF’s new virtual PAL+ course
Terex Cranes has launched a European “Service Plus” 24 hour support hot line for service and spare parts issues.
10.12.2010
We need your input now for the annual crane, telehandler and aerial lift rental rates survey. Have your say.
A Californian company has been fined $17,550 for an electrical accident that killed one employee and injured another.
The following story was sent in by a reader and appears to have come from the Emerald Isle.
09.12.2010
Caterpillar has announced today that Jesse Greene and Miles White have been elected to its board of directors.
Ashtead, owner of Sunbelt in the USA and A-Plant in the UK has reported improved revenues and profits.
A man using a utility boom in Ohio, survived a massive impact yesterday thanks to his use of harness.
Sanghvi Movers, India’s largest crane rental company says that it will spend around $44 million on new cranes in 2011.
08.12.2010
A crane has fallen into a drainage channel in Cambridgeshire, UK today killing the operator.
Demag Cranes has managed to increase group profits in spite of lower revenues.
Installing lights on the UK's tallest Christmas tree at 35 metres requires some skill and two big lifts.
Kobelco Cranes has released its half year results to the end of September with crane sales down 18%.
A man died this morning after he was catapulted from the platform of a boom lift in Western Australia.
Terex has vowed to fight a US patent verdict against a side conveyor on some of its Powerscreen machines.
07.12.2010
An angry builder used an articulated boom lift to protest outside Leinster House in Dublin today
Cargotec, owner of Hiab loader cranes and Kalmar reach stackers, is relocating its deputy CEO to Hong Kong.
Aberdeen, Scotland, based Rose Access Solutions has added two Teupen Leo tracked spiders.
Netherlands based rental company G.M. Damsteegt has taken delivery of its second Nagano tracked platform.
Specialist heavy equipment rental and trading company Sindorf Trading Holland has ordered a new Kobelco CKE2500-2 crawler crane.
The latest Kran & Bühne magazine is now online and available to read or download.
06.12.2010
UK rental company Hewden has teamed up with the charity CRASH to raise money for the homeless.
Dutch based crane company Hovago has recently taken delivery of five new Liebherr AT cranes.