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In mid-December, Haulotte Africa’s service team visited AVI Cranes to provide in-depth training to the technical teams. The Israel-based construction equipment rental company recently added more than 50 Haulotte aerial work platforms to its fleet. AVI Cranes is one of the largest powered access specialists in Israel, supplying machines to major industrial companies in the […]

Italian crane and lifting specialist, Donati has received the ‘100 Italian Excellence’ Award in the “Lifting loads and internal movement” category, 2021. The purpose of the award is to identify 100 companies or individuals which contribute to the growth of Italy. The exclusive gala evening, held in Rome on 16 December 2021 at Campidoglio, was […]

Nuremberg, Germany-based rental company, Rentem has taken delivery of 53 custom-painted Snorkel electric slab scissor lifts. This most recent order includes Snorkel S3215E, S3219E, S3226E, S4726E, S4732E models, as well as Snorkel’s new S4740E electric scissor lifts. The units were manufactured at Snorkel’s facility in the United Kingdom and finished with Snorkel’s industry-leading dual coat […]

Mazzella Companies has acquired Contractors & Industrial Supply Co Inc (CIS). This acquisition further strengthens Mazzella’s footprint in Tennessee and Alabama in the US and reinforces Mazzella’s commitment to be a one-stop resource for lifting, crane service, cranes, and rigging services and solutions. CIS was founded in 1970 by Hank Schiller and serves a variety […]

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has signed a joint development agreement with Coast Autonomous Inc to speed up the development and launch of robotic solutions across its mobile equipment offering.  To emphasise the common long-term interests of the partnership between the companies, Kalmar has become a minority shareholder of Coast Autonomous. The joint development agreement and […]

Doncaster, UK-based Certex UK will serve the renewable energy market from a new office in Taiwan, which began operations on 1 January 2022. Certex UK is part of the Lifting Solutions Group, one of six divisions within the Axel Johnson International business. Certex provides products and services to various stakeholders within the wind energy sector, […]

Hyster Company has been awarded a 2021 Green Supply Chain Award from the Supply & Demand Chain Executive. The company won recognition for a growing range of electric options available for a more expansive set of industries and applications, including those reliant on high-capacity lift trucks traditionally powered by internal combustion engines. “As emissions regulations […]

At the end of last year the Kion Group AG officially opened its new counterbalance truck plant in the Chinese city of Jinan (Shandong province). In addition, it also laid the foundation stone for an additional plant for supply chain solutions in the immediate vicinity that will house a technology centre and state-of-the-art manufacturing lines. […]

Snorkel is celebrating the production of its 10,000th Snorkel S3219E electric slab scissor lift at its assembly facility in Elwood, Kansas, USA. The Snorkel S3219E was introduced in February 2015 as the first model in a completely redesigned family of electric slab scissor lifts for the company. Designed and engineered in Elwood, Kansas, the company […]

Ausa, the global manufacturer of compact all-terrain industrial vehicles, has signed a sale agreement for the Excelway range with Madvac, the Canadian manufacturer of compact multi-purpose chassis and vehicles and with Kaoussis, Greece’s leading manufacturer of waste management equipment. AUSA road maintenance and cleaning vehicles were marketed under the Excelway brandname, but now Ausa will […]