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In a presentation of its 2025+ strategy, Jungheinrich revealed it will focus on increasing profitability, efficiency and sustainability. Having achieved its strategic growth target for 2020 a year earlier than planned, the business now aims to create even greater sustainable value for its stakeholders in the coming years.  The new strategy detailed business ambitions including: […]

With its recent investment in the Haulotte HA20 LE PRO, a 20m electric all-terrain articulating boom, the Loxam Group welcomed specialised training from Haulotte to support their sales and technical teams in this transition of its aerial work platforms. The training will equip the Loxam sales teams with a comprehensive understanding of the benefits of […]

Straightpoint, a Crosby owned company, has appointed lifting and rigging equipment sales specialist, US Cargo Control, as an official supplier.  In addition to providing a large selection of essential lifting and rigging equipment, including wire rope slings, chain slings, polyester round slings, shackles, and more – the online retailer now offers complementary load cell monitoring […]

Italian minicranes manufacturer, Jekko, has established a new subsidiary in Germany: the company will be named Jekko Deutschland and will allow a more widespread presence in the German speaking areas. It has been 15 years since the first Jekko  minicrane landed in Germany. From then on, the German market has become increasingly important not least […]

JLG has announced that Etienne Bourcier returns to JLG, replacing Walter van Winckel, who is retiring in May 2021, as strategic key account director EMEAIR (Europe, Middle East, Africa, India and Russia). Van Winckel joined JLG in January 1997 as sales director, playing a crucial role at the start of JLG’s European Operations, based at […]

Off highway tyre specialist BKT has built a contactless Covid-19 treatment centre and E-ICU unit at its plant in Bhuj, India. The centre, which is already operational,  joins the secondary medical assistance services that already exist on the site, employs a doctor and eight healthcare operators and will be responsible for treating workers and their […]

Kalmar  has signed a six-year Kalmar Care service agreement with long-term customer Belfast Container Terminal Ltd in Northern Ireland covering the supply of maintenance support personnel for Belfast Victoria Terminal 3 (VT3). The order was booked in Cargotec’s 2020 Q4 order intake with the agreement coming into effect at the start of November 2020. Belfast […]

Snorkel’s late Snorkel founder Art Moore has been honoured as an industry pioneer by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM). The induction announcement took place during the AEM Annual Conference, held virtually on 17-20 November 2020. The digital edition featured several speakers, panels, roundtable discussions and networking events. Interviewed in the announcement video, Sue Moore, […]

In 2020, it was important for The Raymond Corporation to continue focusing on collaborative ways to show support to non-profit and educational organisations while expressing gratitude to those who went above and beyond to help those in need. Raymond and its network of Solutions and Support Centres across North America supported numerous non-profits and educational […]

The successful Yorkshire-based logistics specialist Expect Distribution has added further Flexi articulated lift trucks to the already extensive fleet of Flexi very narrow aisle machines that are in operation across its multi-user warehouse facilities in Halifax and Bradford. Expect provide storage and transport logistics for a diverse range of clients and the trucks are required […]