WORLD NEWS
7
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2014
access
INTERNATIONAL
2014
ConExpo-Con/Agg 2014
March 4 – 8, 2014
Las Vegas, USA
IAPA Awards/
IPAF Summit 2014
April 3, 2014
Windsor, near London, UK
Samoter 2014
May 8 – 11, 2014
Verona, Italy
APEX
June 24 – 26, 2014
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
International Rental
Exhibition (IRE)
June 24 – 26, 2014
Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015
ConExpo Latin America
October 21-24, 2015
Santiago, Chile
DIARY
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French rental company
Kiloutou
has acquired MOST Location,
a family owned access rental
company with around 1000 aerial
platforms. Olivier Jonneskindt and
his sister Karine Wauters, who
founded the company in Dunkirk in
1969, will remain with MOST for a
few months during the transition to
the new owners, said Kiloutou.
■
Nationwide Platforms
,
based in the UK, has introduced
around 30 new vehicle mounted
platforms to its fleet.They include
more than 25 van mounted units
from Versalift and four truck
mounts from Ruthmann. The van
mounts consis of 12.5 and 14 m
models for telecoms and utilities
applications.
■
Loxam
has acquired Dansk
Lift, the Danish powered access
rental company which also has a
subsidiary in Norway. The deal, for
an undisclosed price, was signed
before Christmas. The acquisition
gives Loxam a business with
revenues of around
€
17 million
in 2012 and with six depots in
Denmark and four in Norway, where
it operated under the Safelift name.
It also has one branch in Sweden,
in Malmö.
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US-based
United Rentals
is to
significantly boost export sales of
used equipment from its fleet with
a target for exports to increase from
5% to 30% of the total by 2018.
United, which currently has for sale
100000 items with an original cost
of US$700 million, is aiming to
reach emerging markets.
IN BRIEF
JLG and ProDelta end JV
JLG Industries and ProDelta –
owner of Riwal – are to close their
re-rental joint venture RiRent
Europe when current rental
contracts run out, with no new
customers being taken on.
The companies said in a
joint statement that market
circumstances and positions of the
two companies had changed from
when the venture was created.
The two have jointly owned
RiRent for 15 years under a 50/50
ownership split.
In a joint statement, Karel
Huijser, JLG Industries managing
director and vice president for
EAME, and Willem Ledeboer,
CEO of ProDelta, said; “After
a longstanding relationship of
more than 15 years of cooperation
in the RiRent business, today’s
market circumstances as well
as the market position and
operations of ProDelta and
JLG have changed significantly
Record breaking APEX
APEX 2014 will break records
for exhibitor numbers and space
when it is held at the Amsterdam
RAI exhibition centre in the
Netherlands, 24-26 June next year.
More than 100 exhibitors from
across the world, including China,
have already confirmed their stand
space for the show. It will feature
a 5600 net square metre inside
exhibition area and a 4600 net
square metre outside area - double
the size of the outside area at the
last APEX show, held at MECC
Maastricht in 2011.
“We can already say that
APEX 2014 will be the biggest
international access industry fair
anywhere in the world,” said Tony
Kenter, managing director of
organiser Industrial Promotions
International (IPI).
“Amsterdam is becoming the
new capital of the access industry,
and is the perfect international
setting thanks to its cosmopolitan
flair. APEX is the showcase for
all companies in the international
access industry, and it will be
the world’s largest ever access
exhibition in 2014 – the figures
clearly show APEX is the leading
fair for this industry. Whatever
visitors will be looking for, they
will find it at APEX”.
requiring us to re-focus our
business efforts.
“JLG and ProDelta will
continue to offer their services
to their respective customer
bases independently and we shall
continue to collaborate as good
business partners.”
No further explanation of the
closure was given. In Riwal’s case
it is now operating throughout
Europe and therefore competing
with many of RiRent’s customers.
Ruthmann
completes
range
Ruthmann has completed its
Height Performance series with
the launch of the 63 m working
height Steiger T 630.
It has been one and a half
years since the Germany-based
manufacturer launched the first
model in the series, the 46 m
working height Steiger T 460 at
the Intermat exhibition in Paris.
The lateral outreach is a
particular feature of the series,
and the T 630 offers 39 m,
“Five metres of additional reach
compared to previous work
platforms in the 58 m working
height range,” says the company.
Overall length is 11.9 m,
meaning it can be driven on all
roads throughout Europe without
special permits or exemptions. It
is mounted on a 4-axle truck with
a 32 tonne GVW.
