KONECRANES says it is streamlining its UK business by merging the trading activities of Konecranes Service, Konecranes UK and Morris Material Handling under Konecranes UK Limited.
23/10/2009
BARLOWORLD Handling says it will be opening eight regional showrooms across the UK to display a wide range of approved used forklift trucks.
07/08/2009
THE NATIONAL Access & Scaffolding Confederation (NASC) has launched a 24 page information brochure detailing reasons why contractors should adopt a policy to only use regulated scaffolding firms.
16/10/2009
CEMEX says it has invested in UK’s first Sennebogen Green Line 870R-HD crane for its Battersea wharf adjacent to the River Thames in London.
31/08/2009
ALIMAK Hek says it has recently completed a unique lift installation at RNLIs (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) lifeboat station in Padstow, UK.
28/09/2009
AN ANALYSIS of the UK materials handling market reveals the economic downturn has created excellent opportunities to acquire a number of forklift companies.
27/03/2009
THE UK Government has confirmed it will implement a statutory tower crane registration scheme by April 2010.
09/04/2009
ITECO has appointed Russon Access Platforms as its exclusive distributor for the UK and Ireland.
13/11/2008
Hassells the first UK Sennebogen Green Line 870R HD crane has been purchase by CEMEX UK, for operation in its Battersea wharf adjacent to the River Thames in London.
20/08/2009
UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has reported crane manufacturer and supplier Rossendale Group Limited was £10,000 (A$17,620) over a near-miss work accident.
12/02/2010
HOIST Liftruck has appointed five new dealers throughout the UK and Northern Ireland.
23/10/2008
VERTIKAL Days 2009 is said to be UK’s only dedicated lifting equipment industry event held on 24 to 25 June 2009.
15/05/2009
LIEBHERR Sunderland Works has received the ‘Queen’s Award for Enterprise’ for ‘International Trade’ in Sunderland, UK.
27/05/2009
LAVENDON has completed the merger of Nationwide Access and The Platform Company.
04/11/2008
KONECRANES UK says it has won a contract from Siemens Austria to supply four SMD cranes for a new power plant.
25/09/2009
SGB says Electricity Alliance East chose it to erect a 120m high mast climbing work platform (MCWP) through the center of UK’s tallest electricity pylon.
17/07/2009
MANITOWOC says it introduced its new UK facility in Gawcott and two new mobile cranes at an invitation-only event on 1 July.
27/07/2009
UNIC has announced it will open a crane testing centre in the UK by October.
30/09/2008
LIFTING Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) is to hold its LiftEx 2009 exhibition on 20 November 2009, in the UK.
15/06/2009
UK based Penny Hydraulics has signed a distributed agreement with QT Equipment for its range of Swing Lift vehicle mounted cranes in the US.
22/02/2010