Lavendon UK has introduced a standard of technical excellence -‘TechX’ - Panther's Luton location is the first to achieve the status.
20.08.2008
Harsco, owner of SGB and Hünnebeck has appointed Henry W. Knueppel, has a non executive director.
19.08.2008
Access Industry veteran Frank Scarborough and his family survived a fatal bus accident in Mexico last week.
Using an alloy scaffold tower is a safe way of working…. If you use the correct parts
Vp owner of UK Forks one of the leading telehandler rental companies has issued an upbeat first quarter trading statement.
Lampson has completed the erection of one of its LTL2600 Transilift cranes, replacing at the Black Thunder mine in Wyoming, following the collapse of an LTL1100 at the end of May.
After a full review Tanfield, owner of Snorkel and UpRight says that it will lay-off fewer employees than it had planned.
18.08.2008
Aerial lift manufacturer Genie is building a 17,600 square metre parts and logistics warehouse in North Bend Washington.
Australian crane and access company Boom Logistics has reported full year revenues up 17%, while profits slipped 43%.
Hull based cranes and access company Peter Hird has announced a new management team for its training division.
Southampton, UK, based Selwood Plant has acquired Proplant of Cardiff, its second acquisition in the last two months – the company purchased Glo Hire in July.
In spite of all the recent uproar about tower crane safety around the world we have been sent a video of what we think is highly dangerous operation on a Dublin site.
EYG the Hull based glazing contractor is using Jekko spider cranes/glass manipulators for placing large glazing panels.
Las Vegas based Ahern Rentals has reported first half revenues up 25 percent to $192 million but profits slipped 30% due to higher costs.
Ramirent the Finnish based international rental company has reported revenues up almost 19% while profits slipped 9%.
15.08.2008
Romania’s largest aerial lift rental company Industrial Access has ordered15 Niftylift booms for its growing rental fleet.
US based boom truck and crane manufacturer Manitex has reported first half revenues down 5% while profits climbed 7% and backlog 16%.
A man has died at the Fore River shipyard in Quincy, near Boston, when the leg of a Goliath crane was dropped as it was being dismantled.
14.08.2008
German platform manufacturerRuthmann will show two new truck platforms at APEX 2008.
Singapore based crane sales and rental company Tat Hong has announced a 39% increase in first quarter revenues with profits up 60%
A runaway crane smashed into the front of a house in Matlock in Derbyshire, (UK) earlier today after its brakes failed on a steep hill into the town.
13.08.2008
Bobcat has added new features to all twelve telehandler models
Specialist scaffolding and mastclimber contractor the Brogan Group has signed a partnership agreement with Xena Systems, the Irish supplier of loading platforms and crane loading systems.
A banks man has died after being crushed by a cranes counterweight on a bridge job on I-80 near Atlantic Iowa, the second fatality in eight weeks.
