3i is close to agreeing a deal to sell UK rental company HSS to Och-Ziff Capital Management, a hedge fund.
12.06.2007
For those readers living in the UK, Fifth Gear tonight includes Alex James of Blur attempt to operate a crane.
11.06.2007
Hewden Instant Access, the fourth largest powered access company in the UK/Ireland has completed the fitting of Clunk Click stickers to its boom fleet.
An out of balance tower crane jib in Lurgan on Saturday created a near miss and left it tangled around the mobile cranes boom.
We can now confirm details of the accident in Hull last week.
OSHA has ruled that the crane operator was at fault in a March accident in Grand Junction, Colorado.
09.06.2007
A site in Jakarta has suffered three serious accidents in three weeks.
A man was crushed under a crane yesterday at Minorca Mining’s Laurentian pit in Gilbert, Minnesota.
08.06.2007
Larry Bryce has been appointed as executive vice president of Manitowoc Crane Care.
A boom lift being used by two painters fell over sideways today seriously injuring the two men.
A precarious boom lift caused police to shut down a highway near Poole in Dorset England yesterday.
Ashtead, owner of A-Plant in the UK and Sunbelt in the USA, has appointed a new non-executive director
VP the UK based telehandler to tool hire company saw revenues rise by 22 percent to £122 million in the fiscal year to the end of March 2007.
07.06.2007
A photographer on the scene of the Croydon tower crane accident, caught the whole thing on camera as it happened.
In the USA the Association of Crane and Rigging Professionals has voted for the development of a new self-erecting tower crane standard.
Rogue hauliers face fines and vehicles immobilised under new safety measures.
A new design of re-usable safety overshoes is now available
A new study has shown that double cycling of harbour cranes is more efficient.
The Port of Tyne has ordered two portal harbour cranes from Gottwald Port Technology.
Pon has confirmed its acquisition of Milcon and the management role af the Van Mils.
This time of years birds are hatching their chicks, cranes and aerial lifts can be ideal nesting sites.
Delegates at yesterday's Crane Safety 2007 conference in London unanimously agreed that all tower cranes sold in the EU should be subject to a third party inspecton.
06.06.2007
The famous Swan Hunter cranes on Tyneside in the UK, are to be dismantled and sent to India.
Ramirent, the Finnish based rental company has acquired KMB Stavební Servis, a telehandler rental company in the Czech Republic.
