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NEWS
6
Skyjack to unveil new boom,BaumaChina promises
access growth,Mtandt CEO and president announced,
Manitex completesOil & Steel acquisition,Dinolift
entersNorthAmerica,XSPlatforms to expand.
INTERVIEW
12
PMGroup’s CEOLuigi Fucili spoke to
EuanYoudale
about its recent acquisition
byManitex International and plans for
theOil & Steel brand.
VERTICALMASTS
14
Vertical masts provide increased competition to ladders,
particularly inwarehouses and retail locations.They are
also finding new areas of growth.
EuanYoudale
reports.
IAPA PREVIEW
19
Book your place at the
International Awards for
PoweredAccess (IAPAs) and
beat the deadline for early bird
savings at the end of February.
CHINA
21
There is almost unanimous agreement; the powered
accessmarket inChina is set to grow, as are exports
from its domesticmanufacturers.By howmuch is a
topic of lively debate.
EuanYoudale
reports fromBauma
China.
INTERVIEW
27
AI
spoke with the general manager of
China’s biggest AWP rental company
ZhangChunyu to find out how the
sector is set to change and grow in
the country.
IPAF NEWS
29
Items from the Federation this issue include: IPAF
focus onmachine pre-start inspections at Intermat,
Win a trip to the IAPAs/IPAF Summit, JLG’s Frank
Nerenhausen to deliver keynote speech at IPAF
Summit.
INTERMAT PREVIEW
33
Intermat will be the world’s biggest construction
equipment exhibition this year.
AI
previews the show
ahead of our full show guide in theMarch issue.
TELEMATICS
34
The use of telematics in the access industry is at a
tipping point,
EuanYoudale
reports.
BATTERIES
36
TrojanBattery has launched,what
it described, as the industry’s first
true deep-cycleAGM battery.
VickiHall,Trojan director of
global technical service, tells
AI
whyAGM is gaining in
popularity.
SAFETY AT HEIGHT
39
EN 280:2013 comes fully into force on 31 January this
year.Anyone involved in the access industrywill benefit
from understanding the new standard.
TimeWatson
summarises it for us.
SCAFFOLDING INTERNATIONAL
42
AI
’s regular round-up of news and site reports from the
scaffolding sector
RENTAL SHOW PREVIEW 45
TheRental Show2015, taking
place 22-25 February at inNew
Orleans,USA,will have a number
of new products on display.
AI
reports.
ACCESS IN ACTION/EQUIPMENT
46
A range of new products and site reports from across
the world, including the launch ofMEC’s purpose-built
scissor lift for tunneling andmining applications.
5
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2015
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INTERNATIONAL
Chinesemanufacturer
Dingli hadoneof the
biggest standsat
BaumaChina. Findout
what companieswere
sayingat theshow,
startingonpage21.
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