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Elite Sales Inc., Miami, Fla., has acquired a 30-ton reeling machine for custom wire rope. The machine is designed to spool wire rope more efficiently than more traditional ways to coil wire rope. Traditionally, the most difficult part of properly spooling wire rope was creating the correct amount of back tension in order to properly […]

Rupe Corp., San Marcos, Calif., announces a new website offering hydraulic repair estimates. Estimator4U.com provides instant quotes for the repair costs of pumps, motors, rod cylinders, telescopic cylinders, and hose assemblies. After submitting a request, the customer receives a general price range along with a low, median, and upper range with detail of work to […]

Crown Equipment Corp., New Bremen, Ohio, has announced initiatives supporting its customers’ exploration and deployment of fuel cell-powered forklifts. Developments include qualification of sit-down counterbalanced forklifts to operate with fuel cells and deployment of France’s first fleet of hydrogen fuel cell-powered forklifts. Known as the multipurpose workhorse for warehouse applications, the Crown SC 5300 Series […]

United Rentals Inc. has officially acquired RSC Holdings Inc. in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $18.00 per share at the time of announcement, for a total enterprise value of $4.2 billion, including $2.3 billion of net debt. The combined companies will accelerate its potential for growth with industrial customers, as well as provide a lower […]

HBC's radiomatic pilot, a newly-developed operating concept for machinery and cranes, brings intuitive movements from everyday life to the workplace, allowing for a unique operating experience. The concept is based on an integrated inclination function. "By the horizontal and vertical inclination of the transmitter, the operator can control two machines or crane drives," said Christian […]

Yahoo Finance reports that shareholders from United Rentals Inc., Greenwich, Conn., and RSC Holdings Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz., have voted in favor of United's pending $2.51 billion acquisition of RSC. United said that 83 percent of the shares voted at its Friday meeting were in favor of the deal, while RSC said that 84 percent of […]

HAWE Hydraulics, Charlotte, N.C., has released of the CAN-IO14 control unit. The unit has four proportional outputs and four pulse-width modulation (PWM) outputs, all of which can also be configured as inputs. These output ports combined with six analog inputs, which have ranges between 0–10 V and 4–20 mA, mean the CAN-IO14 introduces unprecedented flexibility […]

  The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) has responded to the UK government’s review of health and safety legislation by voicing support for retaining LOLER (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations) in its present form. The LEEA believes that watering down LOLER, or merging it with PUWER (Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations), is […]

In its Q2 fiscal 2012 financial statement, Charles Szews, president and CEO of Oshkosh Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., said the strong performance by the access equipment segment drove the company’s quarterly results above expectations. This segment includes sales of JLG telehandlers and aerial work platforms. "We believe customer actions and industry metrics point to a sustained […]

Designed and developed to allow greater accessibility to buildings while maintaining the 360° visibility, the Merlo Panoramic P25.6 L will soon revolutionize the compact telehandler industry in Canada. The low-profile version is only 5’9" tall but maintains the load capacity and performance from the P25.6. With its compact size, its 5,510-pound lifting capacity and its […]