WORLD NEWS
7
MARCH-APRIL 2014
access
INTERNATIONAL
2014
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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Terex AWP
sent JLG Industries
a notice of possible patent
infringement for the design of JLG’s
chassis on its new 185 ft boom
lift - a claim that JLG denies. See
Superbooms, page 23.
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Skyreach
, based in Brisbane,
Australia, is celebrating its 20th
anniversary this year. Established
in 1994 by managing director
Rod Leech, Skyreach has enjoyed
20 years of sustained growth to
become one of Australia’s leading
players in the access equipment
rental market. Mr Leech said,
“Our strength and the key to our
enduring success can be put
down to our ability to meet market
demands quickly and decisively.”
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Ramirent
is selling its aerial
platform maintenance operation
in Finland to specialist company
Rostok-Tekniikka (R-T). Under the
deal R-T will maintain Ramirent’s
aerial platform fleet in Finland,
with 20 Ramirent staff switching
employment to R-T. Based in
Espoo, R-T sells and maintains
aerial platforms and telehandlers,
with a particular focus on Genie
models. It employs 35 people and
has projected revenues of around
€
14 million this year.
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High Access
, in the UK, has
added hi viz outrigger pads to its
inventory of access equipment.
They alert pedestrians passing
close to powered access equipment
to the potential trip hazard. High
Access purchased the hi viz units
from Outriggerpads, which is
part of the IAPS Group. The UK
firm, which provides high-level
maintenance and cleaning services
to the commercial property sector,
has already used the hi viz pads on
several contracts.
IN BRIEF
ConExpo celebrates
access upsurge
The ConExpo-Con/Agg
exhibition, held from March
4 – 8 in Las Vegas, US attracted
nearly 130000 visitors, according
to organiser, the Association of
Equipment Manufacturers.
It said this exceeded attendance
in 2011, the last time the show
was held, and was second only to
ConExpo 2008.
The glorious weather over the
five-day show was accompanied
by a renewed level of optimism
from exhibitors, not least
access manufacturers, who were
unanimous in their view that
North America was set for
sustained growth.
See the ConExpo review
starting on page 26 for the
access-related launches at the
show including a number of new
innovations from JLG, Skyjack,
Manitou, Palfinger, Xtreme,
Elliott, Altec, Manitex and Oil
& Steel, to name a few.There
will also be more about these
companies and other companies’
JLG’s 185 ft Ultra Boom 1850SJ was launched at ConExpo 2014.
plans in North America in a
special regional report in the May
issue of this magazine.
Speaking at Terex’s press
conference at the show, its AWP
president Matt Fearon said, “We
JLG Industries will discontinue the manufacturing of its Lull telehandler
product line beginning in 2015. Discontinued products include the Lull
644E-42, 944E-42, and 1044C-54 Series II. “The market for Lull telehandler
models has been in decline for the last several years, which combined with
increased cost to comply with new EPA engine standards, led us to the
decision to discontinue the product line,” said Brian Boeckman, JLG Industries
global product director for telehandlers.
“Our comprehensive telehandler portfolio remains solid, however, and we
believe there are significant models across our JLG line of equipment that will
support the shift for our customers .”
LULL LINE DISCONTINUED
UK£3.5 million
Facelift deal
Facelift has invested UK£3.5
million in 74 units of access
equipment from manufacturer
Ascendant.
The investment by the UK
rental company includes 50 12.5
m working height van mounts, 12
22 m self propelled platforms and
12 18 m truck mounts.
Gordon Leicester, Facelift
managing director, said, “We’ve
got big plans for 2014 and of
course, at the heart of that is
making sure we’ve got the kit our
customers want.
“We’re continually investing
in our fleet to make sure that
whatever the access challenge,
our teams can help, and we hope
that these new vehicles from
Ascendant will help us to further
grow our market share.”
are coming back to substantial
annual growth. We all remember
the steep financial cliff, but what
comes down usually comes back
up, and we are nearly back to the
performance levels of 2007/2008.”
