The supervisor at an electrical subcontractor suffered two broken ribs after a truck crashed into his aerial lift minutes after he gave his team a Health & Safety talk.
03.04.2008
Shell International has taken delivery of a new Teupen Leo 30 spider lift for maintenance of its Dutch facilities.
Two construction workers at Indianapolis Airport were injured Tuesday morning when the scissor lift they were using tipped over.
A New York state employee certified more than 200 unqualified crane operators, according to a report published yesterday
02.04.2008
Norway’s Kynningsrud Kran and Stangeland Kran have agreed to merge their mobile cranes businesses into a new company.
Terex has announced the sale of one of its 3,200 tonne capacity CC8800-1 Twin crawler cranes to China Nuclear Engineering & Construction.
March was another record month for Vertikal.Net with over 3.8 million hits
Vp the owner of UK Forks, has acquired UM holdings owner of U-Mole a trench less equipment rental company,
Ex Liebherr director, Peter Walker has been ordered to repay over a £1 million.
Armed robbers in Copenhagen used a mobile crane to smash their way into a money transport depot stealing DK30 million.
01.04.2008
Panther has taken the first step toward introducing the new Lavendon group branding and Kestrel becomes Panther Bristol.
A Bronto fire fighting platform was in action to put out a fire at the North Wales Police HQ today.
Liebherr Nenzing the Harbour, crawler and offshore crane and reach stacker producer has established an office in South Africa.
Easi UpLifts, the Irish based aerial lift sales and rental company has made its first move into continental Europe.
Loader crane company, Hiab, has acquired a majority stake in Bowman Cranes, its South African distributor.
Cramo Sweden has acquired 100% of Kranab the Stockholm based aerial lift rental company.
LMS Capital has sold its stake in Energy Cranes to an MBO team for £83 million
31.03.2008
Ashtead, owner of A-Plant in the UK and Sunbelt in the USA has put its oil and technology division up for sale.
The first tower crane climb in New York since the fatal accident on March 15th drew large crowds on Saturday and was halted before completion.
30.03.2008
Ahern rentals the largest privately owned rental company in the USA has reported full year 2007 revenues up 29% to $342 million.
Florida state governor Charlie Crist has said today that he supports legislation held up in the state legislature enforcing crane operator certification.
28.03.2008
Kevin O’Shea of Atlanta based Mastclimbers, is the new chairman of IPAF's Mast Climbing Work Platform Committee.
The acquisition of The Platform Company by the Lavendon Group was approved at its EGM this morning with 95% in favour.
Yesterdays news regarding the UK distribution of Bronto’s truck mounted lifts, has no affect on the distribution or support of the company’s fire-fighting lifts.
