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New South Wales, Australia-based Ranger Lifting will mark 20 years in business at its new facility in Prestons, near Sydney on 22 September 2018. The lifting and rigging equipment supplier, which recently opened a site in Melbourne, will combine the grand opening of its new headquarters, 40km southwest of Sydney’s central business district, with a […]

JLG’s parent company Oshkosh Corporation has announced that president and CEO, Wilson Jones has won a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award honouring the Top CEOs in 2018. This is the fourth national award for the company under Jones’ leadership in 2018. Glassdoor, one of the world’s largest job and recruiting sites, released its annual report recognising […]

E2S Warning Signals has launched the GNEx family, which features GRP housings and sealing to IP66, is approved by IECEx and ATEX for Zone 1, 2, 21 and 22 use. The visual signals in the GNEx family feature a 5, 10, 15 or 21 Joule Xenon strobe light source, giving an industry leading, effective intensity […]

The FLTA’s Awards for Excellence has been shortlisted for Best Event at the Trade Association Forum’s Best Practice Awards. It’s the second time the FLTA has been nominated for the award in four years, having previously won a Best Practice Award for the FLTA Safety Conference in 2015. The FLTA’s Awards for Excellence brings together […]

One of Ireland’s leading plant, access and tool hire companies has expanded its fleet with the addition of multiple Snorkel lifts. Working with Dave Roddy of Snorkel UK since 2017, Charleville Hire & Platform Ltd T/A CPH have added numerous Snorkel electric scissor lifts, electric boom lifts, and diesel boom lifts to their hire fleet. […]

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has been contracted by Noatum Ports to perform specialised repair work on a ship-to-shore crane located at its container terminal in Valencia, Spain. The order was booked in Cargotec's 2018 first quarter order intake and the work, which is scheduled to last 24 weeks, will be completed early in the third […]

Scotload, a specialist in load measuring and load monitoring solutions for the international lifting industry, and part of James Fisher and Sons plc has launched an online store to give its customers an easy way to order off-the-shelf load monitoring products. The site has been developed in response to customer feedback and has been designed […]

With a salute to National Forklift Safety Day, Crown Equipment Corporation, one of the world’s largest material handling companies, has announced the opening of a new regional forklift service training centre in Toledo, Ohio. The facility increases the company’s training network to 14 sites globally, including nine regional service training centres across North America. Located […]

Delta-Q Technologies (Delta-Q), a leader in battery charging solutions for electric drive vehicles and machines, announced the release of four new high frequency lithium battery chargers in the ICL Series – the ICL1200 and ICL1500 in 85V and 120V models. Trent Punnett, Delta-Q Technologies, VP of sales, marketing, and product management says, “With the offering […]

Temporary Works Design (TWD) successfully completed the turnkey delivery of a Jacket Lifting Tool to Van Oord. Early in June the first jacket foundation for the East Anglia One offshore wind farm was successfully installed. The heavy lift vessel Bokalift One transported two jacket foundations to the installation site. The lightweight lifting tool was able […]