26.06.2017

Adrian Bolton 1964 - 2017

We have received the very sad news that Adrian Bolton, global product manager at Alimak Hek, has died following a road accident this weekend.

He was, we understand, returning from Shropshire where he had picked up a new BMW motorbike, compete with sidecar, which he had purchased in order to take his daughter to her wedding. He was then involved in a collision with a car and declared dead at the scene. He was 53 and leaves behind wife Alison, and children Charlotte, Joe and Bryony, as well as grand-daughter Evelyn.
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Adrian Bolton

Bolton joined Alimak Hek from British Alcan in 1989, he spent the next 24 years as construction manager before being promoted to construction sales manager for Western Europe and Africa in 2014. He moved to his latest job just last year.

Over the years he has played an important role in the mast climbing and hoist industry, and was vice chairman of the IPAF International Mast Climbing Work Platform committee. He was also convenor of the CEN Working Group WG 4. CEN/TC 10 which created the European standard for transport platforms.