An engineer in Gloucester County, Washington, USA died after after he was catapulted from the aerial work platform he was using.
22.01.2009
Skyjack has appointed Rexco to distribute its VR range of telehandlers in Iowa and Western Illinois.
21.01.2009
The Manitowoc Crane Group laid off 305 production workers and 10 office staff on Friday, following a softening in the small crane market.
Liebherr has held the official ground breaking ceremony for its new plant in Dzerzhinsk, in Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia.
Hiab has introduced an eight lever remote control
JLG Europe restructures its sales organisation - Cracknell and Guillaux assume additional responsibilities.
Two men were injured yesterday at Cleco's Rodemacher plant in after a crawler crane's boom collapsed in Louisiana.
Bill Lasky has been appointed as chairman and CEO of commercial vehicle component company - Accuride
20.01.2009
JCB has launched a new pick and carry mobile tractor type crane in India dubbed the Liftall.
JLG has appointed Donald F. Roy as senior vice president – manufacturing, responsible for leading JLG operations and lean initiatives.
You may have noticed that Vertikal.Net was down for several hours today, this caused by a catastrophic line failure into the centre where it is hosted.
UK rental company, Speedy has issued a statement updating its November forecasts for its second half, as planned, following the holiday shutdown period.
US crane rental company, Amquip, has recruited Tom Prozinski of Arcomet to head up its Northeast tower crane business.
Merlo UK has delivered its 7,000th telehandler to GT Lifting solutions of Lancing West Sussex.
Haulotte will unveil a new 34ft compact - 1.9 metre wide, 4x4 articulated boom lift at Intermat in April
19.01.2009
Cargotec, owner of Hiab, Kalmar and MacGregor has issued preliminary results for 2008 which show a 13% rise in revenues, but a fall in margins.
UK based Global Private Equity has acquired a controlling interest in Jassim Transport and Stevedoring of Kuwait, which includes crane rental and heavy lifting.
Kalmar, the reach stacker manufacturer is to merge to plants in Southern Sweden
Manitou has confirmed this morning that it will not be exhibiting at this year’s Intermat exhibition in Paris.
Dino lift, the Finnish based aerial lift manufacturer, will unveil a number of new lifts at Intermat and is looking for a French distributor.
18.01.2009
Eazzi Access, the UK based producer of push arouns scissor lifts, has appointed Frank Parker as its technical manager
Max Access, the company that introduced the spider lift to the UK has gone into administration.
The 4,300 tonne ALE AL.SK90 crane is currently being set up for its first job,
16.01.2009
OSHA has issued three citations, including six serious, one repeat, and one "other-than-serious" violation against Deep South Crane and Rigging
