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Portsmouth-based Rapid Response Solutions (RRS) has doubled its exhibition stand at the upcoming LiftEx trade show—and will utilise the extra floorspace to showcase Hydra-Slide AS500 alignment shoes, used for final positioning of loads. RRS is the first company to take delivery of the shoes, offering 450t capacity, in the UK. Hydra-Slide equipment was already the […]

Skyjack is helping an elite team investigate the mysterious spacecraft touch down across the world in the upcoming award-winning film Arrival. In this science fiction about humans' first communication with aliens, a Skyjack rough-terrain scissor lift is seen elevating an elite team that includes characters portrayed by Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forest Whitaker smoothly […]

EnerMech’s cranes and lifting division has benefited from a £85 million-plus uplift to its order book with a series of contract wins, extensions and renewals. The Aberdeen-based mechanical engineering group has consolidated its position as a major international cranes services provider, strengthening its reputation in the Caspian region and extending its reach by winning new […]

Cargotec is launching a programme to achieve annual cost savings of approximately €25 million and beginning statutory cooperation negotiations. According to preliminary estimates, efficiency improvement actions seek the reduction of approximately 260 full-time staff globally. MacGregor employed 2355 persons globally at the end of September 2016. The objective of the savings is to adapt to […]

Strengthening its hand at both ends of the lifting market, the ALL Family of Companies began the final quarter of 2016 announcing the acquisition of an equipment package consisting of large-capacity crawlers and aerial lift equipment, including boom lifts and telescopic forklifts. The two separate deals with leading-brand manufacturers Manitowoc and JLG will include 30 […]

Modulift has named below-the-hook equipment provider Cargo Lift its first distributor in Mexico, as its newest partner prepares to stock spreader beams up to 110t capacity. Cargo Lift is headquartered in Mexico City but has additional, coastal sites in Cd del Carmen, from where it principally supplies oil and gas customers and, in between the […]

Airpes, a weighing systems and lifting equipment specialist, has expanded its presence in international markets, and boosted its customer service proposition, with the opening of Airpes US LLC. The investment in the Wisconsin site improves its manufacturing, service and support offering to US customers across the board. Josep Compte, CEO of Airpes, who heads up […]

GTAccess has added the first new 15m Hinowa tracked booms in the UK to its growing hire fleet. The powered access specialist is the first British owner of Hinowa Lightlift 15.70 units, which are replacing some older Hinowa 14m tracked booms. The machines were supplied by APS, the exclusive UK distributor for Hinowa machines. GTAccess […]

Following the agreement to acquire Platform Service & Repair Limited (PSR), Terex AWP has completed the combination of its new and enhanced Genie UK and PSR Service Organisation. The field service team will operate under both brands, with the Genie UK team counting now ten dedicated field service technicians and the PSR team having 20. […]

Almost half of UK businesses (44%) believe that the UK’s infrastructure has improved over the past five years, but only a quarter (27%) think it will pick up in the next five years, and two thirds (64%) suspect it will hamper the country’s international competitiveness in the coming decades, according to the 2016 Infrastructure Survey. […]