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The Palfinger Group has acquired Bergen Group Dreggen AS, a Norwegian producer of marine and offshore cranes and lifting equipment. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions, including approval from the competition authorities in Norway. It is expected to be closed by the end of November.   Bergen Group Dreggen AS, headquartered in Bergen, […]

A southern Atlantic area vocational center provides job training and working opportunities to the disabled, and more than that, is a highly efficient supplier of batteries to the federal government and serves as the largest single supplier of batteries to the Department of Defense. The packing area of the plant is a 10' by 10' […]

Guelph, Ontario-based Skyjack has named Matt Lyons as its new upper midwest region territory sales manager. His field sales territory includes Wisconsin, Illinois and the northwest Indiana. Lyons has worked in the aerial work platform industry for nine years with Time Savers, a Chicago-area rental house.   In welcoming Lyons, Peter Bissonnette Skyjacks’ northeast region […]

  After 74 years working for Street Crane Company, two senior engineers are retiring. John East leaves having spent his entire 49-year career with the company. He looked after sales in the south of England. Roger Heywood, the representative for the north west of England, has retired with 25 years service. Starting with the company as an engineering […]

  Konecranes president and CEO Pekka Lundmark was “pleased” with third quarter results following the Finnish company’s latest interim finance report. “Although not yet at the goal, we are pleased with our results in third quarter,” he said. “Service business is improving its performance and achieving the goal of prioritising profitability over growth this year. […]

  Italian access equipment supplier CTE sold its first ZED 23 JH to a customer in Rome, Italy having made the sale at Bologna’s Saie exhibition earlier this month. Presented for the first time at Saie 2012, the new truck-mounted platform with 250kg of capacity, 23m working height and flying boom is the sister model […]

Konecranes, Springfield, Ohio, has introduced two speed control options—extended speed range and adaptive speed range—for overhead lifting equipment motors for the power industry. The control options provide cost-effective solutions for achieving high average hoist speeds without increasing motor size. The extended speed range has been developed for high duty applications where near capacity loads are […]

Vestil Manufacturing, Angola, Ind., now offers the galvanized truck jib crane, which features a maximum capacity of 2,000 pounds to assist lifting heavy items. The unit can be used in water environments or areas prone to moisture. The crane can swivel 360° for limitless operation.

Timothy Koval, vice president and chief legal officer for the Raymond Corporation, has been appointed president and COO for Arbor Material Handling Inc., an authorized Raymond sales and service center headquartered in Willow Grove, Pa. In this role, Koval will oversee all operational aspects of the business, which services customers throughout eastern Pennsylvania, southern New […]

Mazzella Lifting Technologies has opened a new branch in Virginia, Minn. The facility is in a central location for serving the local Taconite Mines and other general industry in the region. “We see the Mazzella Companies’ expansion into the Mesabi Range of Minnesota as a natural progression of our long-term relationship with U.S. Steel,” says […]