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On the cover: German heavy transport manufacturer Scheuerle showed off its second generation Rotor Blade Adapter at Intermat which & allows the trailer carrying the c a blade to negotiate tight corners contents and obstacles by raising and rotating it as needed. Comment 5 Vertikal Days 17 Spider lifts News 6 preview and HTC ownership change, New 250t Grove AT, show guide 39 Oaktree takes Ainscough, Intermat highlights, Grove GHC demo launch, 10 GMK4100L for Vertikal Days 2015 is now just a couple of Kuwait, IPAF Summit, 10 big booms for Collé, weeks away and promises to be the largest Terex launches new generation reach stackers, so far both in terms of the number and space Five Falcons for Oman airports, Datem goes taken by exhibitors. We include a full show topless, First SCX1000A-3 in Holland, Tadano preview guide with all to expand Mantis plant, Manitou celebrates the exhibitors, new 500,000th machine, 140 Manitou teles for Morris products and essential Lifting wind turbines Leslie, Two Groves for Ellis, Hiresafe expands show information. 27 fleet, Four more Kobelcos for Weldex, First UK Explorer IPAF Summit 67 5500, Riwal supplies This year’s IPAF Summit was held in Prangl and financials Washington DC close to the Pentagon, the round-up. second time it has been held in the USA since 2013. While the number of delegates Spider lifts 17 attending was substantially down on last year’s meetings in the UK, the event was well Slowly but surely, the tracked spider lift is organised and the content of the presentations becoming more of a mainstream rental product to a high standard. Cranes & Access reports. Vertikal Days preview as rental companies and end users appreciate 39 its ‘jack of all trades’ abilities. Of all the aerial work platforms, spider lifts can deal with almost every type regulars of ground conditions CPA 73 making them the ‘go Training 75 anywhere’ platforms. NASC 77 We take a look at recent developments SUBSCRIPTIONS: Cranes & Access is published nine times a year as well as a few interesting applications. IPAF Focus 79 and is available on payment of an annual subscription of £40.00. If you wish to subscribe, please send a crossed cheque made payable to The Vertikal Press Ltd to: Subscriptions, The Vertikal ALLMI Focus 81 Press, PO Box 6998, Brackley, Northants NN13 5WY. Address Lifting wind changes should also be sent to this address. Please include the address label from a recent issue with all correspondence and turbines 27 PASMA Focus 83 allow 3 months for changes to be effective. Subscribe online at: In spite of the fact that the European wind energy Books and Models 85 www.vertikal.net/en/journal_subscription.php industry installed more than double the capacity BULK DISCOUNTS: These are available to companies wishing to of new coal and gas combined last year there take out multiple subscriptions. Please contact the subscriptions Letters 87 manager for more details. are some dark clouds on Tel: +44 (0)8448 155900 Fax:+44 (0)1295 768223 the horizon. Mark Darwin What’s on 89 E-mail: [email protected] investigates and also Kran & Bühne: The Vertikal Press also publishes a German magazine which deals with the same issues as Cranes & Access, talks in-depth with Declan Online directory 98 but is written for German users and buyers. Details available on Corrigan of wind turbine request. installation specialist While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of information published in Cranes & Access, the Editor and Publisher can accept Windhoist. no responsibility for inaccuracies or omissions. Views expressed in In the next C&A articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect The next issue of Cranes & Access - scheduled for mid-June - will be looking at Tower cranes, those of the Editor or Publisher. Material published in Cranes & Access is protected under international copyright law and may not Trailer and SD lifts and Heavy transport as well as having reviews of Vertikal Days and Intermat be reproduced without prior permission from the publishers. shows. If you have any contributions or suggestions, please contact our editorial team.

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April/May 2015 cranes & access 5 news c&a Intermat... slow The new Grove GMK5250L All Terrain crane. slow...quick quick...slow We closed the magazine a day or so after Intermat, which benefited from fine weather and a surprising good attendance, partly from the fact that expectations were low among many exhibitors. The common feeling was that the show was too long for the attendance levels. The first day was dead, with attendance picking up on Tuesday and proving very positive on Wednesday and Thursday. Sadly Friday began to slow, followed by a busy public day on Saturday. We will be publishing a full review in the next issue, in the meantime the following product launches were not covered in our pre-show guides to the event. New 250t Grove AT Grove has launched a new single engine 250 tonne five axle All Terrain crane, which the company claims has the strongest reach and load Not so big Astor chart in its class. The GMK5250L features a 70 metre, seven section A surprise new product main boom and a 12 to 21 metre hydraulic bi-fold swingaway which launch was found on the Big can offset from five to 50 degrees. Astor/Genius stand, where The swingaway can be extended further with two eight metre inserts for a the company unveiled a total of 37 metres, giving a maximum tip height of 110 metres. An optional new aluminium push around integrated heavy duty jib is also available. scissor lift, with four metres working height - the Mak 1 Powered by a single Tier IV final/Euromot 4 engine, the crane features People Lift. a new VIAB turbo clutch and integrated retarder which eliminates both fluid overheating and clutch burning, as well as providing up to 30 percent The key feature is that it weighs savings in fuel compared to its predecessor. Lighter than the GMK5220, it just 94kg, boasts a 520mm will be easier to move in countries with stricter axle loading requirements, closed platform height, is such as the USA, Canada, Norway, Australia and Japan, while in countries 790mm wide and 1.16 metres where axle loadings can be higher, such as the UK, the crane is able to travel long with an overall stowed with up to 21 tonnes of counterweight. On site, it can be moved with its full height of 1.6 metres. The 80 tonnes of counterweight in place. A self-rigging auxiliary hoist is available guardrails can be removed in too, eliminating the need for an assist crane. around five minutes, making it possible to lift into the back of car. The unit will be on display The Genius Mak 1 HTC ownership change at Vertikal Days.

UK tower crane rental company HTC Plant, is in the process of being sold by its owner P.C. Harrington Holdings. Although final confirmation had Kubota telehandlers not been received as we went to press, the sale to German tower crane A new product launch we almost missed, tucked away on Kubota’s manufacturer Wolffkran has been the subject of discussions for several construction equipment stand, was the company’s first tentative foot weeks and follows the placing into administration of sister company P.C. into the sub-compact telehandler market. Harrington Contractors. HTC Plant is the UK dealer for Wolffkran which The THT4815 has a 4.8 metre maximum lift height and a capacity of up already runs rental operations in a number of countries. to 1,500kg. The unit on show was a prototype, with little information available. We do know though that it has a hydrostatic New owners for Ainscough transmission, four US-based Oaktree Capital Management has purchased UK-based wheel drive and four Ainscough Crane Hire - including James Jack and Ainscough Wind wheel three mode Energy Services (AWES) - from Goldman Sachs and TPG. steering and currently No official announcement has been made and no financial details disclosed. weighs 2,950kg - a However in an internal announcement, managing director Robin Richardson little on the heavy side said: “Oaktree are very excited so the plan is to reduce about our plans for the future and this so that it can be very keen to support us with our easily transported on growth strategy.” a standard two axle equipment trailer. Los Angeles based Oaktree has an office in London, but over 75 Kubota’s first percent of its portfolio is located telehandler the THT4815 in North America.

6 cranes & access April/May 2015 c&a news Major redesigns from Haulotte Manitou Man’Go 12 A quick glance at the Haulotte Manitou unveiled its ‘revolutionary’ surprise new product at Intermat, stand and the only major really revealing - as was almost inevitable - that the pre-launch game new product that jumped out was changing claims were slightly excessive. the all new Star 6 that looks like The new machine, a 33ft Rough Terrain articulated boom lift, achieves its the UpRight/Snorkel TM12 and 11.9 metres working height with a short riser, linked to the two section the clones from JLG and Skyjack. telescopic boom - in a similar way to many larger telescopics - and a 1.5 The new machine has a solid metre jib with 130 degrees of articulation. Designed specifically with the specification however with a full rental industry in mind, the Man’Go is simple to operate and maintain, size platform covering every inch of uses a chassis mounted the base, AC direct drive, a single Kubota diesel, and in a major multi-stage telescope cylinder departure for Manitou, uses and on board diagnostics. A stock hydraulic wheel motors rather picking version is also available. The new Haulotte Star 6 than traditional drive axles. The new Manitou While this model jumped out , the Outreach is around 6.5 metres Man’Go 12 Star 10 mast boom and 20ft Optimum 8 compact slab scissor lift have also and platform capacity 230kg been thoroughly re-engineered, with rear wheel AC direct electric drive, including a platform rotator. new covers and many other new features, including easy access, on-board The unit weighs 4,100kg, has and remote diagnostics/ information readouts, all-new control stations and an overall width of 1.8 metres, a new platform entrance grip step. The Star 10 mast boom also gains the and an overall length of 5.5 ACTIV’shield secondary guarding option, while the Optimum 8 gets a new metres or 4.5 metres with jib ‘smart counterweight’ system. tucked under for transport. So how does it stack up? The Man’Go fits in between the Niftylift HR12 range and the JLG 340AJ or ATN Zebra 12. As can be seen in the following chart, it offers a mid-range specification/ performance, so while not leading the sector in any key area, if it is priced right it will appeal to Manitou customers and dealers, while possibly bringing in a few new ones. The new Haulotte Optimum 8 The new Haulotte Star 10

Manitou niftylift JLG ATN Man’Go 12 HR12 4X4 340 AJ Zebra 12 Work height 11.9m 12.2m 12.3m 12.2m New cranes Outreach 6.5m 6.1m 6.6m 8.5m Both Liebherr and Terex showed different Platform 230kg 200kg 230kg 230kg new models than planned, with Liebherr capacity filling the gap in its larger luffer jib tower Overall weight 4,100kg 3,330kg 4,400kg 5,150kg crane range with the launch of the 700 Overall width 1.8m 1.6m 1.93m 1.94m metre tonne 710 HC-L. Articulated jib Yes 1.5m/ No Yes 1.3m/ Yes 1.5m/ Available in two lifting capacity versions - 50 130º 139º 133º tonnes and 64 tonnes - it has hook speeds Overall length 5.5m/ 4.1m 5.5m/ 6.05m/ up to 218 metres per minute. Liebherr also 4.5m 3.98m 4.5m unveiled the 50 tonne capacity three axle LTC 1050-3.1 the successor to the LTC 1045. Power Diesel Diesel/ Diesel Diesel Terex launched a new flat-top tower crane - Bi-Energy Hybrid Liebherr 710 HC-L eight tonne capacity CTT 182-8 - which has a Gradeabillity 40% 30% 45% 40% capacity of two tonnes at its maximum 65 metre jib length.

100,000th JLG telehandler JLG’s 100th telehandler In addition to unveiling its badged version of Hinowa’s new 26 metre spider lift, the X26J Plus, JLG theatrically unveiled the 100,000th telehandler built since it acquired Gradall in 1999 - Skytrack and Lull followed in 2003. The anniversary model has been covered in 100,000 tiny JLG logos and will go on tour until October, when it will be auctioned for charity, with the buyer choosing the charity of his or her choice.

April/May 2015 cranes & access 7 news c&a Big booms and scissors for Collé Netherlands-based rental group Collé Rental & Sales has taken delivery of 10 new 180/185ft self-propelled The 100ft boom lifts from Genie and JLG as H.A.B S320- (L-R) Saleh Al-Huwaidi of Five of the new Genie well as several 100ft H.A.B. scissor 12 E4WDS Integrated Logistics with SX180 and three of lifts. The Genie SX-180s and JLG sold to BAC Manitowoc representative, the new JLG 185SJ Hoogwerkers Waleed Raouf and some of 1850 SJ booms will be available to ready for rent the new cranes. rent from the company’s locations in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. Collé says that its rental fleet now exceeds 5,000 units including more than 100 units over 125ft. 10 Groves for Kuwait The H.A.B. order includes several 100ft, 1.39 metres wide S320-12 E4WDS Integrated Logistics, the largest crane rental company in Kuwait, has electric 4x4 scissor lifts with indoor and outdoor certification, 600kg taken delivery of 10 new Grove 100 tonne GMK4100L All Terrain cranes, platform capacity and driveable at full height. One of the first of the new bringing the total number of Grove AT’s taken over the past 18 months production has been delivered to BAC Hoogwerkers. H.A.B ran into financial to 18. The other units being three 130 tonne GMK5130-2 and four 300 difficulties a year ago and put the main business into bankruptcy, while tonne GMK6300L delivered in 2013 and 2014. hiving off the intellectual property into a separate business just beforehand. The 10 new four axle 100 tonners are all equipped with seven section 60 The company has now re-started production of some products including big metre main booms but no extensions. The cranes were delivered by local scissors, tracked boom lifts and electric special scissor lifts. Grove distributor Equipment Company. Established in 2005 the Integrated Logistics’ fleet includes 500 cranes with mobiles from 25 to 1,200 tonnes, and crawler cranes from 50 to 1,600 Grove GHC launch tonnes. The company has more than 2,500 employees with operations Manitowoc launched the new Sennebogen-built GHC series of spread across the region. telescopic crawler cranes to dealers and customers at an event at its Shady Grove factory plant. Studdert, Summit and Spain All three models - the 50 tonne IPAF has appointed Andy Studdert of US based NES Rentals as its new GHC55, 70 tonne GHC75 and president with outgoing president Steve Couling having completed his 120 tonne GHC130 - were on two year term. show which was also attended by Sennebogen staff. Optional The ceremony took place at IPAF’s AGM in Washington at the end of March. equipment includes a pole claw, Nick Selley of AFI moves up to deputy president, while Brad Boehler of auger and working platforms. All Skyjack becomes vice president. The IPAF Summit/AGM was topped off three cranes have load charts for with the evening awards dinner. And the winners were….. working on slopes of up to four The new cranes were unveiled inside the Shady Grove R&D building • IPAF training Instructor of the year - degrees. Hansen Ng of BS Technology, Singapore • IPAF Training Centre of the year - A-Plant in the UK • Access Photograph of the year - Jonathan Till of GT Access in the UK 10 years to prosecute • Low Level Access product of the year - The HSE has delayed prosecution for the 2006 fatal Battersea, London, Faraone of Italy for the Elevah 40 Move tower crane collapse due to lack of Crown Court capacity. • Mast Climber/Hoist product of the year - The case involving Falcon Crane Hire Ltd and Doug Genge for alleged failings Maber of Italy for the MB A 2000/150 with maintenance and overloading has been scheduled for September 2016. • Vehicle Mounted product of the year - Crane operator Jonathon Cloke and local resident Michael Alexa were both Palfinger Platforms for the 48 metre P480 killed in the incident after the crane’s slew ring gave way, causing it to fall into the site and street below. • Self-Propelled lift product of the year - Holland Lift for the 27 metre Hybrid HL275 H25 4WD/P/N (L-R) Deputy president Terex launches new • Outstanding Customer Service - Nick Selley, new president Andy Studdert and outgoing NES Rentals of the USA president Steve Couling generation reach stackers • Contribution to Safe Working At Height - Terex Port Solutions has launched the Liftace 5-31 reach stacker, the HSS Hire of the UK for fitting secondary guarding on all of its boom lifts. first of its new generation lift trucks. Four models of the new Terex • Powered Access Pioneer - Herz Equipment Rental China Stackace empty container handler will follow in the spring. • Project of the year Award - Scanclimber, Scan Rent and With a wheelbase of 6,200mm the PMB Façade Technology of Malaysia. Liftace 5-31 can stack up to five high- • Access rental company of the year - Mateco of Germany cube containers in the first row. In addition to the Liftace-typical 45 tonnes The Lifetime Achievement award went to Raymond E. Smith Jnr who in the first row, the maximum load founded, built up and then sold several aerial lift manufacturing companies, capacity is 31 tonnes in the starting with Smiths Industries and then developed the Smith Mite-E-Lift second and 15 tonnes in the third row. range of push-around scissor lifts. He also holds numerous patents relating to aerial work platforms. Terex Port Solutions (TPS) has launched the Liftace 5-31 reach stacker, the first Next year’s IPAF Summit and awards dinner will be held in Madrid, Spain. of its new generation lift trucks.

8 cranes & access April/May 2015 c&a news First SCX1000A-3 in Holland Dutch engineering contractor Gebr. Gebr. De Koning’s Two Falcon spider lifts scheduled for delivery at Salalah and Muscat De Koning has taken delivery of the International airports new Hitachi- first 100 tonne Hitachi-Sumitomo Sumitomo SCX1000A-3 lattice boom crawler SCX1000A-3 Five Falcons for Oman crane in the Netherlands. crawler crane The Salalah and Muscat International airports in Oman have taken The new crane can be rigged with delivery of five TCA Falcon spider lifts with working heights of between up to 60 metres of main boom, or a 29 and 42 metres. combination of boom and 28 metre The lifts will assist with cleaning and maintenance work, making use of jib for a maximum system length their low ground pressure and good up and over capabilities. Brian Falck of 79 metres. Powered by a stage Schmidt, TCA Lift sales manager, said: “The Oman government’s initiative IIIB complaint engine, it has been to develop tourism necessitated the expansion and improvement of the ordered with an additional winch and airport facilities. In partnership with our local partners we developed a plan a wider skywalk on its main boom for to support this need.” enhanced safety and easier assembly. The crane will be used to carry out The crane will be used concrete, waterworks and foundation to carry out concrete, contracts. waterworks and foundations Datem’s new Potain MCT 205 flat top tower crane Gebr. De Koning managing director Leo installed on the Botanika van Dijk said: “We prefer to buy rather than rent our crawler cranes as they Nature Residences are used on most of our projects. We continue to choose Hitachi, because of development the competitive price, high quality and overall reliability of the products.” Tadano to expand Mantis plant Tadano is investing $2.5 million to expand its Mantis crawler crane plant in Richlands, Virginia, adding at least 25 new jobs. Based in Franklin, Tennessee, Mantis apparently considered adding capacity at either of its two locations but chose Virginia because it offered a number of grants and other financial aid. The announcement of the expansion was jointly made by Virginia’s governor Terry McAuliffe and Tadano’s chief operating officer Shiro Morita. “We are very excited about our Richlands plant expansion,” said Morita. “We can hire more workers from local communities and we can have more suppliers and vendors locally, too.” Mantis Canes was launched in 1979 after the manufacturing company Spandeck acquired the rights to the Turtle Telescopic cranes and introduced a nine and 11.9 tonne models. Spandeck was acquired by Tadano from the Datem goes topless Mitchell family in December 2008 The Tadano Mantis plant in Philippine construction company Datem has taken delivery of the first and is gradually being integrated in to the business. Richfields, Virginia Potain MCT 205 flat top tower crane in the country. The crawler crane line now ranges from 27 to 120 tonnes. The new 10 tonne crane has been installed on the site of the Botanika Nature Residences development in Alabang, Muntinlupa City, where it will be used to lift formwork, rebar and precast concrete sections weighing up to five tonnes to heights of up to 59 metres. At its maximum jib length of 65 metre it can handle up to 1.75 tonnes. IPAF publishes rental surveys The International Powered Access Federation has released its 2015 Rental Market Reports. The report estimates a worldwide rental fleet of 1.12 million aerial lifts, with the US market growing 10 percent, Europe by one percent and China by 25 percent. The two reports - North America and Europe - are available to purchase now and will be fully reviewed in the next issue of Cranes & Access.

April/May 2015 cranes & access 9 Manitou celebrates 500,000th machine Manitou has celebrated the production of its 500,000th machine with 80 limited edition MLT 735 telehandlers. The company developed its first Rough Terrain forklift in 1958 and now has revenues well above €1 billion. It manufactures Manitou, Gehl, Mustand, Edge, Loc telehandlers and access platforms at eight production facilities around the world. The limited edition telehandlers are painted in a special ‘500,000th’ livery with premium and elite packages included. First deliveries will take place this month and one will be on show at Vertikal Days in May. Manitou has celebrated the production of its 500,000th machine with 80 limited edition MLT 735 telehandlers. Two Groves for Ellis Gloucestershire, UK-based rental company Ellis Crane Hire took delivery of an 80 tonne Grove GMK4080-1 shortly after the the UK’s first 60 tonne, 43 metre boom Grove GMK3060 delivered at the end of last year. The GMK4080-1 has a 51 metre boom and can carry all of its 19.3 tonne ballast on board within the UK’s STGO rules allowing up to 16.5 tonne axle loadings. The (L-R) Andy Cahill of company currently runs a fleet of nine cranes and recently took Manitowoc with Bill and delivery of a 40 tonne Tadano ATF 40G-2 All Terrain crane. Simon Ellis of Ellis Crane Hire Hiresafe expands fleet UK rental company Hiresafe Solutions has ordered a number of new large Holland Lift scissors and several new boom lifts. The order is made up of 25 and a 32 metre Holland Lift diesel RT scissor lifts, a 135ft Genie Z135 and Genie Z45/25J 4WDs. The new machines will be supplied throughout this year by Holland Lift’s UK distributor AJ Access in a deal worth more than £1 million. Hire Safe Solutions operates a fleet of specialist access equipment from locations in Newton-Le-Willows, Gerard Jennings (L) of Hiresafe with the first Merseyside and Banbury, Oxfordshire. three units and Richard Onslow of AJ Access 140 Manitous for Morris Leslie UK rental company Morris Leslie Plant Hire has ordered 140 Manitou MT telehandlers taking the total number of units ordered in the past 12 months to 250. The new order includes a range of models from six metre compact units to 14 metre 4,000kg units. Telehandlers are now one if its principal product lines with a fleet of more than 700 units. In 2014 it purchased 400 new telehandlers with the order split between Manitou Morris Leslie has ordered 250 Manitou and JCB. telehandlers in the past 12 months

10 cranes & access April/May 2015 The four new Kobelco Four crawler cranes arrive Kobelco at the Weldex yard for Weldex UK-based rental company Weldex has taken delivery of four new Kobelco CKE G series crawler cranes as part of its ongoing fleet modernisation programme. The company purchased two 60 tonne CKE600G and two 80 tonne CKE800G cranes. Weldex chief executive Dougie McGilvray said: “We have a fleet of 120 cranes and aim to replace them every eight years which is why we are working with Kobelco to update and modernise our fleet.” First UK Explorer 5500 Glasgow-based rental company Leggat Plant - Scotland’s oldest crane hirer- formed 140 years ago - has taken delivery of the first 130 tonne Terex Explorer 5500 All Leggat Plant has taken delivery of a 130 Terrain crane in the UK. tonne Terex Explorer 5500 All Terrain crane The five axle 5500 features a 60 metre main boom with a 11 to 21 metre bi-fold swingaway extension, with up to 40 degrees offset. Leggat’s owner Eddy Donaghy, said: “Our last Terex, a Challenger 3160 has proved so successful and enjoyed such a high utilisation rate, that we had no hesitation in choosing this latest model from Terex.” Riwal supplies Prangl Dutch aerial lift and telehandler rental specialist Riwal and Austrian crane and access rental company Prangl have signed a five year framework agreement. The first transaction sees Prangl renting 79 JLG booms, (L-r) Norty Turner of Riwal with Markus Reitermayer of Prangl and Guillaume Getas of Riwal scissor lifts and telehandlers from Riwal on a three year contract. Prangl will add the machines to its rental fleets in Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Czech Republic. Teupen Leo24GT for Intermat German spider lift manufacturer Teupen launched the 24 metre Leo24GT spider lift at Intermat. Teupen’s 21 metre Leo21GT Based on the 21 metre alongside its new 24 metre Leo21GT, it offers an Leo24GT spider lift additional three metres working height, thanks to a longer riser. The two models share most features and dimensions including 12 metres outreach and 250kg platform capacity.

April/May 2015 cranes & access 11 news c&a Financials round-up

Lavendon edges up Carlyle exits China Crane UK-based rental group Lavendon has issued a trading statement Carlyle has sold its share of China Crane Investment Holdings, leaving indicating a one percent rise in first quarter revenues. After a slow Cargotec as the sole shareholder. China Crane had owned 18.75 percent of start the UK returned to growth in March. Strongest revenues Jiangsu Rainbow Heavy Industries but with the sale of Carlyle’s holding, this were in the Middle East with revenues up 11 percent compared to is reduced to Cargotec’s 9.19 percent stake. The joint venture focuses on 2014. In continental Europe sales were flat but France continues ship-to-shore cranes, rubber-tyred gantry cranes, rail mounted gantry cranes to improve, rising 13 percent, while Germany and Belgium slipped back. and marine specialty cranes.

11% lift for Manitou Successful IPO for Dingli Manitou has reported an 11 percent rise in first Dingli has successfully launched its Initial Public Offering quarter revenues to €323.1 million, thanks to strong on the Shanghai Stock Exchange Main Board. The improvements in North America. Revenues in the company offered 16.5 million shares at 29.56RMB ($4.70) Material Handling and Access division were up five percent to€ 199 million. representing 25 percent of the company’s equity raising RMB 487.7 million ($78.7 million) and valuing the company at almost RMB 2 billion ($315 million). Tat Hong profit warning Singapore-based Tat Hong has issued a profit warning for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year due to sluggish business Higher revenues but bigger conditions in Australia and substantial write-downs. The results in May will report a loss for the final quarter, although the year as a loss for Essex US-based Essex Crane has posted its 2014 results, whole will remain profitable. following a delay to review potential issues with past reporting. Total revenues for the year improved eight percent to $103.4 million, while its HSS boosts revenues while pre-tax loss increased from $14.7 million in 2013 slipping into the red to a loss of over $18 million in 2014. In the fourth UK rental company HSS achieved higher revenues - quarter however there were signs of improvement, with revenues growing up more than 25 percent to €285 million - but last year’s over 25 percent to $28.3 million, while the pre-tax loss was cut from $5.1 pre-tax profit of€ 2.6 million turned into a loss of €8.5 million to $4.5 million. million due to exceptional costs and higher borrowing costs. ...As the company looks for alternatives Haulotte improves 10% US-based Essex Rental is looking at ‘strategic alternatives’ for its Essex Haulotte has reported a 10 percent hike in first quarter Crane Rental crawler crane business. The announcement suggests that the revenues to 98.2 million, although the majority of this was € company is not currently planning to sell or change its Coast Crane mobile due to currency movements. Equipment sales improved by and tower crane sales and rental operation. two percent, while rental revenues dipped by the same amount. It has also agreed a liquidity contract with Exane BNP Paribas, which will run from this month through until the end of the year. Hewden raises £135m UK rental company Hewden has secured a new £135 million credit line from GAP refinances Bank of America and five other banks in UK-based rental company GAP completed a five the hope of increasing its presence in the year, £220 million refinancing exercise to fund further industrial and engineering market sectors growth. The company negotiated the competitive with additional asset-based facility with a four bank syndicate led by RBS and including products and services. Barclays, Wells Fargo Capital Finance and PNC Business Credit. Riwal doubles fleet investment Steady rise for Ruthmann Dutch/International rental group Riwal is planning to German truck mounted lift manufacturer invest €80 million in its rental fleet this year - double Ruthmann has reported a record year, achieving last year’s spend. The company will purchase more revenues of €109 million, five percent higher than 3,000 platforms and telehandlers from a range than in 2013. Shipments of truck mounted lifts were stable in unit terms - at of suppliers, including JLG, Genie and Holland Lift. around 500 machines - while service revenues have continued to post solid gains, and now contribute €13.5 million to the overall revenues. IPAF up 9.5% IPAF has published its annual report which shows revenues increasing 9.5 percent to £4.65 Ashtead acquires in New York million while pre-tax profit - or rather ‘surplus’ The Sunbelt Rentals operation of Ashtead group has - also increased 9.5 percent to £149,500. acquired Wilson Rental Center of Corning, New York. The Membership subscriptions increased 12.5 company offers a range of equipment including booms percent to £427,368, while the main source of income - the issue of PAL and scissors as well as trailer lifts and telehandlers. cards - rose nine percent to £3.26 million. Non-UK revenues also increased and now make up 36.8 percent of the total.

12 cranes & access April/May 2015 Major orders for JCB c&a news JCB has booked several large telehandler orders in the UK, this spring. The largest order, for nearly £9 million, came from Nixon Hire for 150 telehandlers, with lift heights ranging from seven to 17 metres. The order will go to work on a range of projects, including civil engineering works, major house building and warehousing schemes across the UK. Several units will also be sent to the company’s depot in Glasgow which opened Nixon Hire has ordered 150 JCB earlier this year. telehandlers in an order worth almost £9 million The second order from Surrey-based B&T Plant Hire, is said to be worth around £5 million, and comprises 100 machines of a similar size range, but it also includes five 20 metre 540-200 units which the company says are proving popular with customers working in the hotel construction sector. Deliveries are scheduled throughout the rest of this year. Xtreme Bigge Bigge Crane has taken delivery of the 31.7 tonne/12 metre Xtreme XR7038 heavy duty telehandler launched last year at Conexpo. However before it shipped, the rental company loaned Bigge’s latest the machine to EC Source - an Ahern Xtreme XR7038 Rentals customer - which needed to unload a large metal power pole section weighing 24 tonnes at its yard close to the Xtreme Manufacturing facility. The pole is destined for the project to widen Interstate 15 in Nevada. The XR7038 carried out the lift quickly and easily before it was loaded for shipment to Bigge, which now has 20 Xtreme telehandlers in its fleet.

Unloading the 24 tonne column was a breeze for the big telehandler

GAP opens access division UK rental company GAP Hire Solutions has officially launched its new London Tools & Access division to supply small tools and low level access equipment to customers within the M25. Two dedicated access depots will be located in Heathrow and Docklands areas and will offer alloy scaffold towers and low-level access platforms. The first five tool hire depots will open in Walthamstow, Wembley, Kentish Town, Heathrow and Docklands. A further five London locations will open during the rest of the year. The move follows GAP’s recent £220 million refinancing which raised further funds for expansion.

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c&a news News HIGHLIGHTS • David Beckett has been appointed •A-Plant - the UK rental business of the Ashtead • Michelin has launched two new sizes of general manager of US-based Group - has acquired temporary roadway Bibload Hard Surface tyre for telehandlers. SafeWorks Spider division. company TRAC. • UK-based rental company Prolift Access is • Tat Hong has sold the premises of is •The cranes in the Energy auction in Casper, the latest company to achieve IPAF Rental+ Malaysian crane rental operation in Wyoming fetched $35 million out of the overall accreditation. Kuala Lumpur. David $54 million total. Beckett • Imer Access has appointed City Lift as its • Italian manufacturer Bravisol •Chris Wrigley a director of UK-based rental distributor for Denmark, effective from May of has released a video highlighting company Sky High Access is to retire after 25 European accident statistics associated with years of service. this year. low level falls. •US wholesale rental company Acme • The Spider division of SafeWorks has • Carlsson & Co of Falkenberg, Sweden has Lift has appointed Molly Frank as appointed Sherry Wade as district taken delivery of an 18 metre Denka Lift DL18 director of strategic accounts. sales representative in Denver. telescopic trailer lift. •UK rental company Baldwins Crane • Stirnimann the Grove, Potain, and Danish rental company Del-Pin has taken Hire has taken delivery of a Liebherr JLG distributor for Switzerland has Sherry • Molly Wade delivery of two Versalift VTX-240 truck mounted LG 1750 lattice boom truck crane. Frank celebrated its 100th anniversary. aerial lifts from Time Danmark. •Three men died when a • Netherlands-based Collé Rental & Sales • US loader crane manufacturer mastclimbing work platform collapsed has taken delivery of a number of Iowa Mold Tooling has appointed in Raleigh, North Carolina. H.A.B scissor lifts from a new form Holly McCoy-Nelson as customer •Liebherr Africa has opened a maritime crane of the company. support manager. sales and service centre in Durban, South Africa. • Europe’s largest rental company Loxam • Thailand’s Siam Cement Group has Holly •UK-based Platform Sales & Hire has taken has acquired a stake in the Brazilian rental taken delivery of a new 130t five McCoy- delivery of two heavy duty beavertail truck equipment company Degraus. axle Grove GMK5130 -2 All Terrain Nelson bodies from Sterling GP. crane. • Rothlehner Arbeitsbühnen has appointed •The German association PartnerLift held its Lissner as the Denka Lift sales and service • Uruguayan port operator Montecon has ordered annual conference in Würzburg. the firstLiebherr LHM 800 configured for dealer for Denmark. container handling. •UK-based crane hire company Ellis Crane Hire • Platform Service & Repair (PSR), IAPS’ has taken delivery of a Tadano ATF 40G-2 All access service division, has taken delivery • Equipment sales company NIMAC has been Terrain crane. appointed as Potain and National Cranes dealer of 23 new service vans. for Nicaragua. •German crane and transport company Singapore-based crane rental company Fangmann Industrie has taken delivery of a • • A crane operator died after he was hit by a Liebherr LTM 1130-5.1 All Terrain crane. Asiagroup Leasing has ordered seven falling hook block which crashed into his cab in Manitiwoc cranes for its fleet. Hong Kong. •Australian port operator Patrick Stevedores has ordered four Liebherr ship to shore cranes. • Peter Allison, former export sales director at The Chaika Sanatorium on Russia’s Sakhalin Coles, Grove-Coles and Grove, has died age 90. • Haulotte CEO Alexander Saubot island has purchased a Palazzani Ragno TZX • Joe Dixon, previously with United 170 spider lift. has been elected president of UIMM, • the French industrial employers Rentals and JLG, has joined • UK access rental company Star Platforms has association. US/internet based rental taken delivery of its firstMontracon beavertail company BigRentz. truck body. •US-based wholesale rental company US Latvian energy provider Sadales Snorkel and Xtreme Manufacturing BlueLine Rental has acquired Area Equipment, Alexander • • Tikls has taken delivery of 15 CMC Saubot are adding new staff in order to Joe a rental company based in Cheasapeake, Virginia. PLA 190 truck mounted lifts. triple the combined North American Dixon • UK tyre manufacturer Cooper Tire & Rubber •Irish general rental company Dromad Hire has sales team. has taken delivery of two Valla pick & carry taken delivery of four aerial work platforms for cranes. • Bronto will bring a training simulator to its hire fleet. Vertikal Days next month to launch the • Irish rental company U Hire has taken delivery •Falkirk-based Horizon has taken delivery of Bronto Operator Challenge 2015. of the firstWacker Neuson TH522 telehandler its firstGrove crane - a 300 tonne GMK6300L in Northern Ireland. • Manitowoc has won its patent infringement All Terrain. case against Sany blocking some of its cranes • Erik Bengtsson, executive vice •The Bangkok government has ordered the first from the US market. president of Cramo Scandinavia Barin underbridge inspection platform in Thailand and MD of Cramo Sweden, is to - an AB 13/S. • Hiab has won an order from a Chinese rail leave the company. equipment company for 60 telescopic loader •Deutz rang the opening bell for the trading cranes. • Mammoet has won the heavy lift session on the Frankfurt stock exchange to mark and heavy haul contract for the Eric 115 years since it first listed. • Linden Comansa has taken 100% ownership Cameron LNG project in Hackberry, Bengtsson of its Chinese joint venture - Comansa JIE - Louisiana. •Markets has appointed Joe Seckinger as a regional and changed its name to Comansa • Liebherr Biberach has completed the account manager. Construction Machinery. acquisition of the Shiro tower crane division German crane and access rental company Rolf from Shriro group in Hong Kong. •German railway company Deutsche • Bahn has taken delivery of two Herbold has taken delivery of a new 70 tonne •US loader crane manufacturer IMT has added Versalift VT-145-F truck mounted lifts. Joe Liebherr LTM 1070-4.2. Kahn Truck Equipment to its distributor Seckinger network. •Scottish steelwork contractor J&D • Riwal UK has taken delivery of a JLG 1850SJ Pierce has taken delivery of a second Grove boom lift and a number of electric Skyjack •Austrian painting company Glatzhofer has GMK4100L and Grove GMK3055. scissor lifts. taken delivery of a second Easy Lift spider lift. •UK rental company Mr Plant Hire has moved • The city of Karlsruhe, Germany, has • Emerson Crane Hire of the UK has received into the telehandler market with two JCB 525-60 taken delivery of three Palfinger truck the first of two newLiebherr LTM1040-2.1 All Hi-Viz units. Terrain cranes. mounted platforms. Skyjack has completed the first of its planned UK rental company Emsley Crane Hire has • •Versalift UK has expanded its sales • 30 charitable support projects, as part of its 30th team for the UK and Ireland and Andy taken delivery of its firstT adano All Terrain anniversary celebrations. crane, an ATF 40G-2. appointed Andy Bray as sales director. Bray UK-based crane rental company Weldex has Magna Tyres has appointed Reifen Helm • •ALL Erection and Crane Rental has • added a Liebherr LTR 1060 telescopic crawler purchased 20 new JLG telehandlers and to distribute its OTR and MTP tyre ranges in to its fleet. Northern Germany. nine Terex cranes for its fleet. •UK access rental group AFI has opened its own • US dealer/rental company Associated Supply paint shop near its Liverpool depot. •The UK’s Access Alliance has launched a used (ASCO) broke ground last week on a new equipment listing for members’ equipment. facility in Tyler Texas. •Lack of Crown Court capacity in London means there will be at least another year’s delay before •UK-based rental company Nixon Hire has • Stuart Smith, founder and past owner of the prosecution into the fatal Battersea tower ordered 150 JCB telehandlers in a deal worth Peterborough Crane Hire, has died. crane collapse in 2006. almost £9 million. • Grupo Vertikal, the newly formed access •UK’s LTS Powered Access has moved into •Belgian rental company Cuypers Vorkliften rental company in Chile, has taken delivery the telehandler market with the purchase of has taken delivery of the firstT erex Liftace of its first truck mounted lift, a reconditioned several Genies. 5-31 reach stacker. Ruthmann T470. See www.vertikal.net news archive for full versions of all these stories

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16 cranes & access April/May 2015 Spiders c&a spider lifts spark into life Slowly but surely, the tracked spider lift is becoming more of a mainstream rental product as rental companies and end users appreciate its ‘jack of all trades’ abilities. Of all the aerial work platforms, spider lifts can deal with almost every type of ground condition with outriggers that can be set in different positions and with huge amounts of levelling ability, making them the ‘go anywhere’ platforms. And when fitted with non-marking tracks and using an electric power source, they are perfect for use indoors on most types of delicate flooring. When compared with self- Two issues ago we took an in- propelled boom lifts, spiders are depth look at hybrid technology much lighter and more compact and in particular how it is being for similar performance and with applied to scissor and boom lifts. features such as variable track Hybrid technology however is also becoming important in other access width are narrow enough to pass Platform Basket 22:10 through single doorways yet platforms, and most particularly, stable enough for tracking around spider lifts. One of the early pioneers site or from delivery truck to work of multi power source drives for place. Air and water outlets in the access equipment was Danish basket are also available adding manufacturer Omme Lift. It has been to their versatility. building aerial lifts for 35 years and produced its first bi-energy model - the Ommelift 2500EBD, a trailer mounted boom with diesel and battery power - in Harry Lorentsen, managing director of 1994. This platform OmmeLift with a hybrid drivetrain had a powerful like a generator and automatically metre working height Ommelift battery pack, which recharging the battery pack. 4200 RBDJ tracked spider - is its allowed independent largest lift to date and weighs in at and environmentally Using battery power rather than 6,900kg, while boasting a maximum friendly operation plugging into a mains supply eliminates the well-known ‘voltage outreach of 15.2 metres with a which was especially reduced platform capacity of 80kg appreciated in drop’ issue. However when operating on single phase AC even - 13.5 metres with its maximum residential areas. 230kg capacity. The hybrid power relatively short extension cords However it was pack allows cordless operation both can create a reduction in voltage, found that in certain outdoors using the diesel engine, which means the machine does not applications - such and indoors with its eight battery receive sufficient power to operate as tree work - the pack. Paramount Platforms of the effectively. Battery power therefore battery did not have UK, ordered one of the first units at provides better lift operation and enough capacity its Amsterdam launch last June. Lee without an inconvenient, potentially to work for the Kerr of Paramount Platforms said: whole day - and hazardous cable connection to the “We wanted a versatile machine this was more mains. that performs equally well on rough apparent when the Intelligent charging allows the terrain for phone mast work as it temperatures were operator to plug into the mains and would in a shopping centre putting low. The solution recharge the batteries while using up Christmas lights. The hybrid was to combine the machine. It can also trickle power train is a very important battery and engine charge when dormant, switching to criterion for our London work, along Omme’s latest 42 metre working height power creating, with full charge when the lift is in use. with lightweight and compact 4200 RBDJ is - is its largest lift to date the engine acting Omme’s latest hybrid machine - 42 dimensions for its height.”

April/May 2015 cranes & access 17 Although the Genie articulated boom spider lifts has more platform capacity and a c&a bigger basket it weighs almost three times than that of the Omme Spider Vs boom? versatility and autonomy can be truly exceptional. Given the reasonably similar working height and outreach, we Automatic lithium hybrid thought it might be interesting to Another spider lift manufacturer that briefly compare the main differences has been an early adopter of lithium/ between a large spider lift and hybrid is Italian company Bluelift self-propelled articulated booms which launched its lithium hybrid of the same working height. The system at Bauma two years ago. most obvious differences are that The company says: “Eliminating the spider is far more compact any trailing leads is one thing, and weighs about a third of the but offering uninterrupted and full self-propelled. Coupled with its power for drive and lift functions ‘go-anywhere’ tracked undercarriage actually transforms the use of such means the spider can access work equipment. There is still a little areas unreachable for the boom reluctance for people to embrace lift, particularly when the booms this technology as lithium batteries much heavier weight is taken into have had their share of bad press consideration. By virtue of its unique and some manufacturers’ systems levelling ability, the spider lift can do not perform as well as they also set up and work on steep claim. But this technology is a game slopes that no other platform could changer in the industry.” get near. How the 42m Ommelift compares with a similar-sized articulated boom - in this case a Genie ZX-135/70 Type Genie ZX-135/70 omme 4200 RBDJ Max. working height 43.15m 42 m Max. outreach 18.3m riser extended 15.2 m Platform dimensions 910mm x 2.44m 800mm x 1.25m Travel length 12.93m 8.9/8.3m Overall height 3.09m 1.99m Stowed width 2.49m 1.75/1.35m Operational width 5.03m 5.33/4.42m lithium battery with a combustion choose between either battery Max. platform capacity 272kg 230 kg engine with automatic switching power or combustion engine. mechanism between battery and Overall weight 20,502kg 6,900kg Bluelift uses a 90 amp hour engine power supply. While dual (200Amp/Hour on C22 model) Spider lifts are also leading the Platform Basket is another company power systems which combine a lithium, iron-phosphate battery pack charge towards the adoption of high that echoes this sentiment and conventional battery system and mounted directly to the machine capacity, quick charge, long life suggests that customers check combustion engine have been on which powers all functions in both lithium ion battery packs. Pioneered out the claims made by the the market for some self-propelled travel and lift modes. The battery by Hinowa, the lithium power pack manufacturers regarding the lifts and larger spiders, it has always lasts between six to eight hours provides enough grunt and life for suggested recharging times and been too much of a challenge to on one charge - claimed to be 20 the spider lift to work all day on also the amp hour rating on the develop a battery system small percent better than the average - rough terrain - cutting trees or on various battery packs. enough to fit on sub 29 metre and can be recharged to 80 percent high cycle indoor work - without the The new Bluelift Hybrid line claims tracked spider lifts. Consequently, of full capacity within two hours need for a back-up engine. However to be the first compact track even with the use of lithium battery when connected directly to mains add an engine and the mounted spider lift to combine a packs, the market has had to power of either 110 or 240V.

Another early adopter of lithium/ The Bluelift lithium battery system is hybrid technology is Italian company also detachable so it can be moved Bluelift which launched its system from one unit to another, offering at Bauma two years ago fleet owners greater flexibility

18 cranes & access April/May 2015 In Hybrid Auto mode, the BMS and it can be charged as and when (Bluelift Management System) convenient with no ill-effects with system monitors and analyses the maintenance-free lithium battery the operation of the platform in lasting up to three times longer than real-time to help select the most traditional lead acid batteries. power efficient usage at any time The addition of a small Honda when working in an application diesel or petrol generator which that allows both combustion and kicks in automatically when the battery modes. The operator simply battery power drops below 20 selects Auto, leaving the BMS percent means that the platform system to automatically decide can be used for extended periods which power source is the best for in areas where mains power is not any given function with the view available ie outdoors. The lithium to reducing fuel consumption and battery system is also detachable decreasing pollution as much as so it can be moved from one unit possible. If the operator for example to another, offering fleet owners is lowering the main boom the greater flexibility. This means that BMS system automatically selects depending on the battery/engine the electric power. If the operator usage, a fleet owner can share one raises the boom or drives the unit or two lithium battery systems (where higher hydraulic pressure is between a larger fleet of standard required) the system automatically units with only combustion engines. engages the combustion engine. Lithium innovator There is no battery memory effect The first manufacturer to offer and it can be charged as and when lithium powered spiders was, convenient with no ill-effects with as already mentioned, Italian the maintenance-free lithium battery manufacturer and spider lift market lasting up to three times longer than leader Hinowa, which launched its traditional lead acid batteries. first, all-battery powered tracked In Hybrid Auto mode, the BMS Goldlift 14.70 at the end of 2009. (Bluelift Management System) This it followed with a 19 metre system monitors and analyses version about six months later when

Hinowa is continually adding new models – its latest is the 26 metre working height, 14 metre outreach Lightlift 26.14 the operation of the platform in other manufacturers - such as CTE real-time to help select the most and its 17 metre Traccess spider power efficient usage at any time towards the end of 2010 - started to when working in an application follow suit. that allows both combustion and Hinowa is continually adding new battery modes. The operator simple models and its latest which will selects Auto, leaving the BMS be seen at Intermat will be the 26 system to automatically decide metre working height, 14 metre which power source is the best for outreach Lightlift 26.14 - the any given function with the view company’s largest platform to date to reducing fuel consumption and and which is also available with a decreasing pollution as much as lithium battery pack. Hinowa says possible. If the operator for example that the 230kg capacity 26.14 is lowering the main boom the will be compact and light enough BMS system automatically selects to transport as easily as its 23 the electric power. If the operator metre Lightlift, and as with the raises the boom or drives the unit smaller platform it will have a 72 (where higher hydraulic pressure is volt, three phase, 3500W electric required) the system automatically motor powered by a battery pack engages the combustion engine. containing 15 or 22 LiFePO4 cells There is no battery memory effect with battery management system,

April/May 2015 cranes & access 19 spider lifts c&a inverter, battery charger and DC-DC Hybrid at Vertikal Days in May. That cooling system. particular unit has been purchased It is now more than four years by Bradford-based Tracked Access since Hinowa signed its supply Platforms. The Spider 33.15 has agreement with JLG to build and sell 15.5 metres of outreach and 17 its spider lifts under the JLG brand metres up and over height. The name. While slow to get started, company will also show its 18.90 activity and interest from the wider Pro lithium and 13.80 Hybrid with JLG distribution network is now lithium power. gathering pace. Its latest platform, Platform Basket offers lithium also launched at Intermat is based battery powered options up to The new ATN is a 23 metre tracked spider lift on the new Hinowa 26 metre lithium 500Ah capacity as well as a with 230kg maximum platform capacity powered lift and becomes the selectable charging system input JLG X26J with 230kg unrestricted of between 10 to 23 amps and platform capacity. a charger with a capability of More new manufacturers up to 100 amps output - all key elements to be considered when Intermat was also the launch pad understanding recharging times. The for two new manufacturers entering battery used on the Spider 18.90 the market, with all-new spider Pro-E lithium is about one third lifts from established aerial lift lighter than a lead acid battery of manufacturers. The first is from French mast and articulated boom and scissor manufacturer The 33 metre Platform Basket 33.10 shown as a prototype at Bauma last year

Northern Italy-based rental company Viviani has a wide range of Palazzani spiders including its largest the 52 metre XTJ 52/C. CoMet is also entering the market with its first spider lift the 21.3 metre Leopard ATN and the other from Italian truck the same capacity and even under and van mounted lift manufacturer severe use, the lithium batteries CoMet. guarantee between 2,000 to 5,000 At the point of going to press just recharge cycles - up to five times before the show, ATN has not more than conventional batteries. revealed too much about the new They are also maintenance free platform - the MG23 - other than it and there is only a small level of is a 23 metre tracked spider lift with self-discharge - up to five percent a maximum platform capacity of - when not in use and by using 230kg. Overall length is 5.54 metres, single phase AC electric motors width 1.88 metres and it boasts a with inverter technology it efficiently gradeability of 32 percent. Like all manages battery use. of ATN’s other aerial products the An LCD display enables the user MG23 will be aimed at the rental to monitor real time information market, will be simple to operate on battery state, discharge rate, and easy to maintain. charge rate, current use and cycles Italian manufacturer CoMet is also etc. allowing constant and easy entering the market with its first monitoring of the batteries. When spider lift the 21.3 metre Leopard. charging in low temperatures, there The new machine has a classic dual is even a cell heating system to sigma type riser and two section improve efficiency. The intelligent telescopic boom with short jib and battery charger system allows pedestal mounted platform offering shorter charging times and use of a maximum outreach of 10.8 the platform during the charging metres. The platform capacity is cycle, thus reducing down time. higher than usual at 265kg and 60 During use the machine will alert degrees of platform rotation the operator by audible alarm when is standard. the batteries have discharged to 85 percent and will automatically shut 22.10 EVO (Evolution) which manufacturer which has introduced New Platform Baskets down the system equipment before is lighter (less than 3,000kg) and lithium-ion power on its TZX Ragno Another company offering lithium/ power is too low. has 30kg more basket capacity Exo Execution series, resulting in a hybrid power is Platform Basket, Platform Basket has also recently at 230kg. lower overall weight. The company which will launch the first lithium- updated its 22.10 launching the new Palazzani is another Italian spider has also improved the platform powered 33 metre Spider 33.15

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Stand 306/7 spider lifts c&a capacity. Discharging when not 980mm wide and 6.40 metres long, in use is said to be less than one which can be reduced to five percent a month and it does not metres when the detachable lose is recharging capacity when basket is removed. partial recharges are repeated. Slightly heavier at 3,300kg, the The manufacturer says that the Leo 24GT has the same height and estimated life cycle of the width adjustable tracked chassis, Teupen’s latest spider lift is LiFePO4 24V, 40 amp battery as well as the detachable and 180 the 24 metre Leo 24GT - the is more than 2,000 cycles with degree rotatable basket. Instead of bigger brother of the Leo discharge to 80 percent. A full the standard cable control set, both 21GT launched last year recharge takes four hours. models now have an optional with 120Ah of capacity. Charging the 25.3 metre working height S25 The CMC S19N achieves its the pack fully is said to take two and and 14 metre outreach. Weighing maximum 8.8 metres outreach with a quarter hours. 3,800kg the unit is 880mm wide by an up and over height of 8.5 metres Rapid spider expansion 5.95 metres long. Italian manufacturer CMC has Conclusion rapidly expanded its range of What is apparent at the moment is spiders over the past few years the healthy state of affairs for the and now has six models, ranging spider lift sector which has attracted from 15 metres to the six-wheeled several new manufacturers. 41 metre, 19 metre outreach S41. As more customers realise the Its latest model is the 18.8 metre benefits, the demand is growing CMC S19N (Narrow) which shares for machines that can work both the same structural configuration, indoors and outdoors. While slow control system and componentry to take off, the availability of the as the 14.9 metre S15. It will sit lithium battery pack has blossomed alongside the existing S19 model enormously over the past year and - now renamed the S19HD - which is now being offered by almost only has working height and control every manufacturer with hybrid system in common. power also growing strongly. Most of the recently introduced models The new model features a two are in the mid-range sizes - say 19 section telescopic boom with to 25 metres - with very few over articulating jib, giving an outreach 30 metres. Demand for the very of 8.8 metres and an up and over large spiders around 45 metres height of 8.5 metres. Maximum and above, remains a niche sector platform capacity is 230kg but this dominated by Danish manufacturer is reduced to 150kg to achieve TCA. Most machines of this size maximum outreach. are purchased for specific end user 24GT from 21GT Abitron (formerly Hetronic) radio Overall stowed dimensions are 4.48 applications, such as working in remote control. Teupen’s latest spider lift is the 24 metres long with basket removed, high atriums etc… However some metre Leo 24GT - the bigger brother The Leo 24GT also features a under two metres high and 780mm specialist rental companies - such of the Leo 21GT launched last year. new basket design allowing the wide - the original S19HD is 930mm as Irish company Easi-Uplifts - The Leo 24GT has an additional replacement of any of its constituent wide. The extended outrigger are offering them for short term telescopic section in the lower parts when damaged. The new footprint is 2.8 by 3.58 metres rental. For day to day rental, most boom/riser, adding three metres lithium battery drive option is now long and it weighs 2,500kg. Power companies and users will stay with to its working height. Both models in series production. Seen at the options include a Kubota Z482 diesel machines in the 15 to 25 metre have an outreach of 12 metres last Intermat on the Leo 21GT, the or Honda petrol engine with AC range, which would appear to cover and 250kg unrestricted platform battery pack fits into the same motor or a Lithium-ion pack. The most applications, and over the capacity. The 24GT also has housing as the combustion engine company has also said that a hybrid next year or two, will probably be exactly the same overall transport and consists of four Lithium-ion cells diesel/electric system should be mostly powered by lithium or hybrid dimensions at 1.99 metres high, which supply the 48 volt system, available shortly. Also new is technology. First Lithium-ion Hinowa for Avon Access UK specialist rental company and external work for abbeys and of the job.” The machine has an Avon Access of Bristol, has churches. These customers really unrestricted platform capacity, expanded its spider lift fleet, appreciate the benefits of the silent, of 230kg, and up to 9.7 metres with its first lithium-ion powered clean battery power provided by of outreach. The dual sigma riser machine an Hinowa Lightlift the Hinowa Lithium unit. It has provides a perfectly parallel lift, 20.10 Lithium, one of a number similar power and speeds to the ideal for working on walls, while its of Hinowa Performance IIIS regular diesel machines in our fleet, 800mm overall width and stowed machines. and offers five hours of continuous height of less than two metres, Lee Roberts, Avon’s founder and working before the batteries need allow it to pass through narrow Avon Access has added recharging, so we operate it with doorways. The easy-set outriggers its first lithium-ion managing director, said: “We do powered machine an increasing amount of internal complete confidence regardless include single button self-levelling.

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spider lifts c&a A Canterbury tale Conservationists recently inspected stonework and stained glass at Canterbury Cathedral in the UK - now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site - with a 42 metre Omme Lift tracked spider lift. The inspection and survey of the cathedral were required prior to the proposed conservation to the Nave roof, stained glass windows and West Towers, together The cathedral required a machine that could pass with stonemasonry to the upper Nave buttresses. through quite a narrow doorway, work inside and access the seldom-seen 25 metre outdoors, had low ground pressure and yet could reach heights of more than 40 metres The spider was high interior vaulting of the Nave, repositioned outside before repositioning the machine The Ommelift 4200 to inspect outside to inspect stonework on RBDJ, allowed the stonework the West Towers, requiring the cathedral’s expert on the West machine’s full 42 metres. team to easily Towers, access the seldom- requiring the The non-marking tracks spread the seen 25 metre high machine’s full machine’s 6,805kg weight, reducing interior vaulting of 42 metres ground pressure, avoiding damage the Nave to the Nave floor. The tracks also helped the machine work comfortably outdoors. The 4200 RBDJ has 15.2 metres outreach and 230kg platform capacity. Heather Newton, the head of Stone Conservation at Canterbury The non-marking Cathedral, said: “This particular tracks spread the lift was invaluable in facilitating machine’s 6,805kg a survey of the nave vault and weight, reducing ground pressure, The project - funded by a grant the exterior fabric of the western avoiding damage from the Heritage Lottery Fund towers. It enabled the Cathedral’s to the Nave floor (HLF) along with support from Surveyor to assess the condition of private individuals, charitable trusts the stonework and more accurately narrow doorway, work inside and Chelmsford, Essex in 2014 with and foundations - is part of The scope the work for the ‘Canterbury outdoors, had low ground pressure a fleet of spider and truck Canterbury Journey project which Journey’ HLF projects.” and yet could reach heights of more mounted lifts. The 4200 - the first aims to transform the accessibility Lee Kerr of Paramount Platforms, than 40 metres. The Ommelift 4200 in the UK - was purchased from and sustainability of the cathedral. which supplied the spider lift, said: allowed the entire inspection to be Omme distributor Access The Ommelift 4200 RBDJ, allowed “The cathedral required a machine completed within three days.” Platform Sales (APS). the cathedral’s expert team to easily that could pass through quite a Paramount was established in Four 32m Falcons in Bangkok airport Thailand’s Bangkok International Airport - formally known as Suvarnabhumi Airport - has taken delivery of four, 32 metre Falcon FS320Z spider lifts. The diesel/electric FS320Z offers up to 15 metres of outreach with its 200kg maximum platform capacity - 16 metres with 100kg - with an up and over height of up to 10 metres.

The new spider lifts will be used to working at the airport. Being selected maintain and clean the airport’s glass again after 10 years using our equipment facades both inside and out. is the best reference we can get.” Brian Falck Schmidt, sales manager at New Bangkok International Airport was TCA Lift, said: “We are very proud, once opened in 2006, and is one of the biggest again, to be the preferred supplier of airport terminals in the world. The airport Airport of Thailand. 10 years ago we won also has the world’s tallest free-standing a contract to deliver 10 Falcon spiders control tower at 132.2 metres. to the same customer and all are still

The new FS320Z spider lifts will be used to maintain and clean the airport’s glass facades both inside and out.

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BlowingBlowing c&a lifting wind turbines inin thethe windwind In spite of the fact that the European wind energy industry installed more than double the capacity of new coal and gas combined capacity last year - a total of 11,791MW compared to 3,305MW and 2,338MW respectively - there are some dark clouds on the horizon. Mark Darwin investigates. the long term price that is needed to bring forward investment in a given technology, known as the ‘strike price’. As well as reducing the cost of financing new projects, the CfD regime is intended to deliver value for money for consumers by encouraging competition between low carbon technologies. Unfortunately for onshore wind, the strike prices look set to encourage investment in renewable technologies with higher costs, Renewable power plants accounted with 120 metre diameter rotors. such as offshore wind and tidal, for 79.1 percent of new installations Rotors look set to get even bigger rather onshore wind and solar. during 2014. Today, grid-connected with turbine capacities of 15MW Strike prices for onshore wind have wind power is enough to cover and even 20MW being planned. A The aesthetically unhappy anti- been reduced to £95 per MWh, 10 percent of the EU’s electricity modern wind turbine is available wind turbine lobby is growing in with a further £5 cut in 2017. In consumption, up from eight percent to produce electricity between both Europe and parts of North comparison, large solar strike prices in 2013. Germany and the United 80 and 98 percent of the time, America, this combined with have reduced to £120 per MWh, Kingdom accounted for 59.5 but obviously produces different reductions in wind energy tariffs with a further £10 cut in 2017. At percent of the total EU wind energy amounts depending on the wind threaten the long-term future of the same time offshore wind has installations in 2014, at 5,279MW speed. A typical onshore turbine new onshore wind installations. seen a rise in the strike price to and 1,736MW respectively. typically generates around 24 percent of its theoretical maximum In the UK - currently Europe’s £155 this year. Bigger and better? second largest market in terms of capacity (41 percent for offshore With a significant and rising With improved technology, the new installations - reductions in the turbines) compared with 50 to 80 proportion of UK gas derived from output and size of turbines has also Department of Energy & Climate percent for a conventional power Russia/Ukraine, opposition to grown. In 1985 rotors were typically Change strike prices for renewable station. However when comparing renewable energy may be short- 15 metres in diameter, with turbine overall efficiency - the relationship technologies under the Contracts sighted. The last time Russia capacities under one MW. Today between energy in and out wind for Difference (CfD) regime, due to played power politics with gas in rotor diameters of 100 metres are fares much better with a limit of 59 come on stream in 2017 is providing 2009, prices jumped by 17 percent, not unusual, with an average of percent compared to 35 percent a major financial incentive to install and with UK imports expected to 2.5MW output and up to 7.5MW coal and 50 percent gas. new capacity sooner rather than later. account for around 70 percent of Because of these factors, the wind supply by 2020, the risks are clear. sector in both the UK and the rest of In 2012 Europe’s wind In the short term, the onshore wind capacity reached 106GW Europe, is set for a very busy period sector in the UK and Ireland looks over the next two years, however set to be very busy in spite of the what happens after that remains to anti-wind lobby. be seen. Figure it out In the UK the CfD is key in the Electricity Market Reform programme In 2012 Europe’s installed wind which is set to deliver £110 billion capacity reached 106GW - of capital investment up to 2023 to equivalent to the total electricity replace the country’s aging energy consumption of Sweden, Ireland, infrastructure. CfDs are long-term Slovenia and Slovakia combined. contracts which are intended to Driven by the EU’s binding target to provide stable and predictable obtain 20 percent of its power from incentives for companies to invest in renewables, with a target of 130GW low-carbon generation. This is done by the end of 2020 (European by paying a variable top-up between Wind Energy Association - EWEA - the market price and an estimate of estimate) and 735GW by 2050.

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The tagline teams have to control the blade assembly

Turbine heights there are a range of crane models available to erect the heavier and “At the moment there is limited Contractors working in the European guidance on lifting in wind.” wind sector - particularly outside of higher turbines, but the problem the UK - are now installing turbines is the extended periods of time with hub heights of up to 140 the larger components are on the metres, although this will grow to crane hook, increasing the risk of 150 and 160 metres. In the UK the problems from ever changing wind hub height is lower, partly due to speeds. There is the option of single pressure from the anti-wind lobby, blade installation to reduce the total but also because of the excellent surface area exposed to wind but wind farm sites still available. this is not a simple process and the Outputs from 60 metre towers are overall installation time is extended however significantly less than for which increases the risk of running 80 or 100 metre towers. The UK still into wind down-time. has many sites still to be developed Since Christmas, high winds across that can produce efficient energy Europe as a whole have seriously with 80 metre towers. affected turbine installation. The crane (500 to 750 tonne telescopic) interface. They are not concerned and can be left freestanding how the component moves and safely. This also allows for work behaves in the wind and how it to be carried out inside the lower affects itself. The newer type of sections ahead of installing the 100+ metre diameter rotors the remaining components. With wind blades are not fully pitched out strength and direction forecasts when lifted and may be set at five unpredictable at best, the next or six degrees so when the wind stage - the final tower sections and reaches about six metres a second nacelle and rotor - have to be fully and above, the blade starts to completed as an uninterrupted cycle oscillate and move. It will not affect until, at least, the nacelle has been the crane but it does affect the Are cranes available? mounted , or not at all. Once the tagline teams who have to try and Even though hub heights and main problem with the larger third tower section is started it is all keep control of it.” turbines are increasing in height turbines is that it may take up to or nothing. If the base section and Corrigan says there is limited and weight, crane development two days to fully erect a typical four two bottom sections are installed guidance on lifting in wind. “I have has largely kept pace, and there or five section tower, nacelle and one day then the remaining turbine asked ESTA to look into this because are cranes capable of erecting rotor. Predictions of wind strength components (with rotors pre- the largest turbines. A few years and direction may only be valid installed on the ground) may - in ago, the industry went through a for 24 hours in advance and are ideal conditions - be erected on the difficult phase including several never truly accurate for specific second day. serious incidents which resulted in locations. This means that by the Wind problems and guidance an industry gathering in Hamburg time the installation contractor has “At the moment there isn’t joined organised by ESTA. While this mobilised cranes, ballast, transport up thinking between the crane ‘contractor vs client’ open meeting and crew (a team of 20 - 50 people manufacturer and the installation aired industry grievances regarding depending on the scale of the contractor about lifting in wind,” pricing and safety, it would appear project) the whole erection process says Corrigan. “Crane manufacturers that very little has actually changed is entirely weather dependent and look at how a component affects since then. Although there have the key decisions lie with the crane the crane in a set configuration. been fewer serious incidents - supervisor. They consider the characteristics particularly in Europe. In a typical four section, 80 metre of the larger components i.e. One of the UK-based companies tower, the base and second section fully assembled rotor and wind operating in the European wind may be erected ahead of the final loading, the structural strength sector is Windhoist. Technical two tower sections, nacelle and and integrity of the crane and also manager Declan Corrigan says that rotor using a smaller capacity torque resistance within the slewing

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if you search for guidance on lifting were preparing to erect rotor, and lifting wind turbines c&a in wind there is the FEM document from 7am to 10am the wind was (based on a very good Liebherr three metres/second in line with document) ‘The influence of wind on predictions. Quite suddenly it gusted crane operation’ but little guidance to 20 metres per second when we anywhere else. Crane manufacturers were about to lift the rotor from will give the maximum wind speed the hub support. Except for the allowable to lift for a particular crane fact that the lift had been delayed configuration - say 10 metres a due to a technical fault with the second - but is it safe? The actual pitch system the rotor would have limit applied to the lifting operation been on its way up to the nacelle may often be much less than and the consequences could have this - up to 20 percent in some been catastrophic. Of late we have instances - based on a risk stopped relying solely on the crane assessment of the operational manufacturers for guidance when factors needed to maintain control lifting rotors because we were of the suspended rotor. having to down-rate some of the “In common with other contractors wind speed figures they supplied we have had ‘near misses’ as - primarily to keep control of the well. About 18 months ago we component during the lift.”

Despite tha anti-wind lobby the UK and Ireland looks set to be very busy over the next two years

30 cranes & access April/May 2015 c&a lifting wind turbines e.g. LG1750 may be assigned a higher limit - up to 11metres per second. However, if we cannot control the rotor in windspeeds in excess of 8 metres per second then the difference between both crane types is, in reality, only half a metre per second.” “From early 2013 we began to encounter more and more large Legislation and guidelines? to 13.5 metres per second! The rotors up to 101, 108 and 113 Single blade important factor here is that the metres on 80 metre towers. We “Under the legislation and guidelines installation is riskier we operate to, a risk assessment is decision to proceed with a lift is were told by the manufacturers that because of the required to de-risk the worst case not taken by the manufacturer’s their lattice cranes could install at extended time taken scenario and to build contingency engineer in Germany, but by the wind speeds of 10 or 11 metres per “Lifting in wind is a very inexact measures on how to deal with crane supervisor on the side of a second yet we were never able to science. Wind patterns are not stable it. When we apply a wind speed mountain. lift one when the wind speed was and the physical topography affects limit to a specific lifting operation Different crane types? more than eight metres.” each site differently, particularly our control measures must be “When components are of a certain So how dangerous is when working on a hill and whether sufficiently robust to ensure the size and scale, the type of crane turbine erection? there are trees or not. In the accident lift is completed successfully or lifting it - a telescopic, crawler “Since the ESTA wind meeting there in Brazil a few years ago, the rotor the component is made safe; our lattice or wheeled lattice - is a has certainly been more awareness was only a couple of metres off the risk analysis makes allowance for secondary consideration to the when carrying out lifts. When ground, but the load was still acting a potential 50 percent increase component itself. Cranes don’t make lifting a very large rotors onto 140 on the top of the boom having the in wind speed value and this has, mistakes, they have limitations. metre towers, it can take almost same result.” to date, not been questioned or Based upon their calculations 45 minutes to complete the lift rejected by anyone. So if the crane Liebherr will contend that a 1,200 itself and this means a higher risk Approach roads and manufacturers say a maximum of tonne LTR 11200 telescopic crawler, exposure period. Ultimately, you counterweight nine metres per second is OK for with luffing jib, lifting a 113 metre are relying on your people on the Another problem area for installation a specific lift is this acceptable? rotor onto an 80 metre tower can ground to say it is safe to lift, and contractors are the approach roads Must I then have sufficient work up to a maximum of 7.5 if circumstances change knowing and hard standing areas. “Major resources to control the component metres per second. On the other how to make the load and the clients are now first class at if the wind speed were to rise hand a heavy lattice boom crane crane safe.” providing appropriate road designs

April/May 2015 cranes & access 31 configuration needed to erect 140m to build secondary hardstanding.” lifting wind turbines c&a hub height turbines.” Future? “We are looking at 140 metre The UK will see unprecedented turbines now and where the turbine installation levels over stipulation is a wheeled crane, only the next two years and many are the Liebherr LG1750 can be used - worried that safety standards could there is no other wheeled crane in be pressurised as happened in this class with capacities to match the run-up to the ROC rebranding this machine on the SL12 boom. If deadline in 2013. With the Terex were to offer the CC3800 on downturn in construction post a wheeled carrier then it would be 2010 many contractors flocked to another option but I’m not certain the wind industry but, for larger Liebherr LR 1100 this is likely to happen anytime scale projects, there is still only a with Power Boom soon. select group - including Windhoist, “Going back 10 years the crane of Global Wind, Total Wind, BMS and choice for putting up turbines was Fairwind - that can realistically be the Terex TC2800 or CC2800NT, considered. The wind capacity which we have successfully used target by 2020 is For Windhoist the UK and Ireland 130GW in Morocco and now in Mauritania. is still its biggest market, followed When using a TC2800 if you put by Western Europe as well as other on more than 102 metre boom and countries such as South Africa, 12 metre fly you need derrick to Morocco and Mauritania. Its fleet is lift off the ground. The CC3800 can kept current with the addition of one lift 114 metre boom and 12 metre or more heavy cranes a year adding fly without derrick which would be a 1,200 tonne LTM 11200 in 2009 attractive if available on a wheeled followed by another in 2011, a Terex carrier. I am certain that there will CC2800 NT and Liebherr LTR11200 be demand for a 1,000 tonne class in 2013, and a Terex TC2800 last lattice boom on wheeled carrier year. This year two Liebherr LTM especially as hub heights increase in 1750s have been added. the UK but the size of the slew-ring “This sector of industry demands needed in this crane class may specialist cranes,” says Corrigan. exceed three metres in diameter “We generally chose Liebherr at and will pose a major problem for and construction, complying with As turbines get higher and cranes 500 tonnes and above, but smaller carrier design.” the relevant European codes for (and booms) become larger, more Grove, Liebherr, Terex and Tadano all bearing capacity etc…,” says counterweight is needed increasing Corrigan is obviously a big Liebherr have good quality and performance. Corrigan. “Small developers mobilisation and operating costs. fan. “The telescopic crane world We recently added a 300 tonne, 80 however are not so conscientious. For example a crane with a 150 changed forever when Liebherr metre boom Grove GMK 6300 for Each turbine supplier has its metre boom may need up to 400 brought out the LTM 1500. Many example.” tonnes of derrick ballast to raise it, still say it is the best telescopic own standard specification Erecting wind turbines is a hard and then it will continue to complete crane ever built,” he says. “The for the construction of roads difficult job, most of the time stuck the installation works with lesser Terex AC500 has very good duties and hardstanding which has in the middle of nowhere in very amounts of counterweight. The but the difference of the longer to be adequate not only during inhospitable locations, so finding problem then is the stability of boom was incredible. Liebherr the installation but for future staff is not easy. Training is onerous cranes with long booms in out of tried to grow the concept of the maintenance and decommissioning and has become very expensive. which may be in 20 to 25 service conditions, much more LTM 1500 into the LTM 11200. We years’ time.” consultation is needed between the have used the larger crane very “Installation contractors take on crane operator and manufacturer successfully but it isn’t an LTM an enormous amount of risk in the to ensure the crane is sufficiently erection phase of a windfarm,” he A Terex 1500, it is a far more specialist, CC8800-1 stable when left in an unladen niche crane. On larger turbines the said. “For example, a 10 turbine erecting condition and the boom is not size and weight of the tower base project over an eight week period a 7.5MW, lowered. There have already been section has increased significantly. can involve 20 to 30 crane journeys 170 tonne a number of high-profile incidents On a 110 or 115 metre tower the on freshly prepared roads, 40 to 60 Enercon where cranes have fallen over in out truck journeys, up to six lifts per E-126 base section may weigh up to 100 turbine of service condition. tonnes and you won’t lift that in turbine so you have very intense Big cranes with a 500 tonner - you now need activity levels in the first weeks of the lifetime of a windfarm…. “Higher hub heights result in a 750 tonne capacity crane and increased installation prices. one that can move quickly. The 750 However given the risks the Installation contracts are sub- tonner is also good for turbines with industry has a good safety record. divided between crane and the 80 metre hub heights. The base Standards in the UK wind industry labour costs. The number of man sections are well over 80 tonnes are far higher than in the general hours needed to erect an 80 metre which is also too much for a 500 construction industry. The biggest turbine might half that of a 140 tonner. This is the reason the LTM risks involve moving equipment. metre machine but the crane 1750 tonner is good, especially The industry did have issues with specification is markedly different where there is limited civils work cranes going off roads etc…but and the cost differential is much because you can add the luffing this has improved. Unfortunately greater. You could buy a 750 tonne jib from the existing hardstanding there is always the potential for an class lattice boom crane equipped without additional works, reducing incident because of human error but to install 100 metre hub height costs but also helping with planning, with training and experience this is turbines for half the cost of the especially if the client has no scope reduced to a minimum.”

32 cranes & access April/May 2015 c&a lifting wind turbines Grace Kelly On top of the 25m tower makeover The world’s largest spider crane - the 10 tonne capacity Unic URW-1006 - was used to replace the nine metre long blades of a 24 metre high E-3120 turbine named Grace Kelly, from Huddersfield-based turbine specialist manufacturer DC21. All the turbines manufactured by the company are given names - just along the road from Grace is Rita Hayworth…

The 10t capacity URW-1006C producing 200 to 850 MWh a year. To replace the blades, the URW- 1006 spider crane used its full 31.7 metre reach, more than enough to lift the turbine and rotor hub up to the top of the 25 metre tower. Each blade - which weighs 410kg - had to be installed facing down by an DC21 manufactures three turbine expert installer working at the top of Each blade weighs 410kg models. The Endurance E-3120 the tower. Once the blade is fitted, 50kW is its smallest but most the hub is rotated ready for the next popular, and designed for larger blade to be installed. Grace Kelly has farms, schools, hospitals, and offset 164,933kg worth of C02 since commercial sites producing 100,000 it was built in 2013. to 250,000 kWh a year. It is The URW-1006 is able to pick & carry available on towers of 24.6 and 36.4 loads up to 1.5 tonnes, more than metres and has a rotor diameter of enough to move the blades and the 19.2 metres. Slightly larger is the 500kg rotor hub. Its variable Endurance E4660, while the largest outriggers provided plenty of levelling is the 225kW X-29 wind turbine and stability on the uneven surfaces.

April/May 2015 cranes & access 33 lifting wind turbines c&a Boom Booster eases installation Belgian-based rental company Sarens used a new 1,600 tonne Terex CC 8800-1 crawler crane with Boom Booster kit for the first time on a job to erect an Enercon E-126 wind turbine at the Netherlands largest wind farm Windpark Noordoostpolder. metre wide access ramp with Erecting the a 2.5 percent slope to keep 170t Nacelle the maximum ground pressure under 10 tonnes per square metre. Because of this all assist cranes had to move on mats and final lifting locations had to be levelled. Trenches on both sides of the access road further complicated matters which meant it was necessary to form a special bridge to set up the booms. With a main boom length of 138 metres - including 72 metres of the Boom Booster - and an 18 metre LF extension, the CC 8800-1 had a total system length The Terex CC8800-1 Boom Booster kit of 156 metres. This was enough to lift the turbine components Main boom is 138m to a hub height of 135 metres, while using an offset of 20 degrees. To do this, the crane was equipped with 295 tonnes of superstructure counterweight, The kit consists of five 10 metre wide 60 tonnes of central ballast and 400 folding inserts and two adapters and tonnes of superlift counterweight. can be built up to 72 metres long. It is “We were very pleasantly surprised 50 percent heavier than the standard that the team was able to set up boom and is designed to increase the CC 8800-1 crane with the Boom capacities at short radii and long Booster kit and a BSSL and LF boom lengths- by up to 60 percent - configuration in a similar time to the by reducing lateral deflection, making normal boom,” said Sarens project it ideal in the installation of large wind manager Hendrik Sanders. “Once turbines. the crane was set up the rest was Enercon’s preferred crane - Sarens’ a routine job. Two assist cranes Terex CC 9800 - was not available erected the E-126’s tower and the for the job, so the CC 8800-1 with CC 8800-1 then installed the 170 The 72m long Boom Booster the Boom Booster kit was offered as tonne, 7.5MW nacelle at a radius of an alternative. Terex Cranes used 12 40 metres. The 260 tonne generator delivery trucks to deliver the Boom was installed at a 36.5 metre radius Booster kit directly to the work site and the 375 tonne hub at a radius of from its factory in Zweibrücken. The 33 metres. The three fiberglass rotor frame was partly pre-assembled blades, each weighing 40 tonnes allowing Sarens to save time on site. needed a working radius of 23.5 Almost 120 vehicles were needed metres.” to transport all the hardware and This whole process will be repeated supporting materials, including 48 for another 37 wind turbines, trucks to transport the crane. meaning that the CC 8800-1 crane Work conditions on site were unusual will be staying at the site for up to a and involved creating a three metre year, working alongside a CC 9800 raised work platform and a seven crane from Enercon.

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ThisThis year’syear’s c&a vertikal days bigbig showshow It is hard to believe, but Vertikal Days goes into its ninth show as Europe’s - and possibly the worlds - largest crane and platform event this year! It certainly has more crane and aerial lift exhibitors - and a larger People, meetings Catering number of machines on display - than any other show and seminars Vertikal Days is unique in that being held in 2015. Hopefully the spring weather will If you are associated with the lifting visitors really do get a ‘free lunch’. be kind, and help make it the best Vertikal Days so business but not as passionate Our caterer Barry Miles is back far in terms of visitors. Pre-registrations are up again, about the equipment as some, no with his largest team so far, and problem! You can focus on the many will be roasting 15 free-range, large with a good number of first time visitors registering, other aspects of the event from white porkers from Bovingdon, alongside hundreds of regulars. meeting your peers to informative Hertfordshire, barbecuing over a This year the range of exhibits event even more productive and workshops, seminars and meetings. thousand sausages from the same is substantially wider than ever enjoyable. Typically more than 80 percent of supplier and several thousand beef before, ranging from batteries A year of changes the UK and Ireland’s specialist rental burgers. Once again there will be companies will attend over the a vegetarian option or two, tasty and tyres to some of the largest The 2015 event will maintain the cranes on the market. two days, along with an increasing salads and a cheese bar. And for popular format of free parking, free number of large end users, which those who prefer something really One thing is absolutely certain, hospitality and a friendly informality, together represent the vast majority quick, you can get a freshly made if you have any interest in lifting but will also see the introduction of of the region’s annual buying power. sandwich or baguette at the popular equipment of any kind, this year’s more changes and improvements This gives ample opportunity sandwich bar. A big change this event is an absolute must. As than ever before, in an attempt to to network and exchange ideas year is the doubling up of the main usual you have the chance to see significantly upgrade the visitor with others. There are also more serving stations, now available at all of the world’s major crane and experience without spoiling the short meetings and seminars this both ends of the larger Catering access manufacturers without most popular aspects of this unique year, including the CPA hosting Marquee. having to walk miles and in a event. Changes include relocating a Strategic Forum meeting and setting where exhibitors are not and expanding the Marketplace, several IPAF events. It all adds up to distracted by thousands of gawkers doubling the main food serving allowing more time for your visit. or side shows. You can be sure that stations in the Catering Marquee everyone else at the show - both and separating the barbeque and visitors and exhibitors alike - share sandwich bars, all aimed at reducing your interest and are involved in a the food queues at peak times, not similar business to yourself, helping an easy task when you are feeding make what is already a very social well over 1,500 people each day. Lunch menu Miles’ famous hog roast If you haven’t already pre-registered you can do so at Barbecue stall with burgers and www.vertikaldays.net - You can also print out your sausages own badge to speed your passage into the show. Vegetarian chilli Salad selection Marketplace Cheese board including Spierings’ Cornish Gouda In a new location and bigger again with more exhibitor stands, the Fruit basket Marketplace is the place to have a Sandwich/baguette bar for coffee and meet up and check out those in a hurry a whole host of suppliers providing training, replacement parts, batteries, software and safety technology, finance and legal services.

April/May 2015 cranes & access 41 handling attachments and is likely which will be equipped with the vertikal days & to have a number of Sanctuary Zone company’s new ACS secondary c a products on display. guarding system. Also ask about its Affordable Access: Stand 101a new 23 metre spider lift launched at Intermat. The Co.Me.t distributor will showcase its 26 metre Eurosky 26 Avant Tecno: Avant’s new articulated truck mounted lift fitted Stand 410 Leguan 135 with 17 inch super single rims and Avant will show tracked platform tyres, which effectively makes it its new wheeled suitable for off-road applications. and tracked Leguan It will also have the new Eurosky 135 self-propelled 22/2/10JIB mounted on a Fuso platforms. Offering Canter on the stand, along with the an outreach of new Eurosky 14/2/6/HQ mounted on 6.8 metres, auto So what’s to see a Ford Ranger. The company was levelling and a at the show? recently appointed agent for Goanna 140kg platform Track’s super single rims for Canter, capacity, the new The following is the full listing Isuzu & Iveco and will launch the machines will be of exhibitors grouped by major product at the show. joined by the 16 product sectors. There is also a full metre Leguan 160 spider lift and alphabetical listing on page 52. the five metre Leguan 50 telescopic Evening event Access Equipment mast platform attachment for a & Telehandlers front-end loader. It will also have a Wednesday evening is the annual number of compact tool carriers and Vertikal networking event. This year Access Industries: Stand 107 attachments on display. sees some significant changes as The 26 metre Stand 510a we implement stage one of a two See Multitel Pagliero Co.Me.t Eurosky 26 fitted with 17 Big Astor: inch super single rims and tyres year transformation of the event, As well as showing its Pedestrian Ruthmann’s TU285 which started in 2007 as a simple Tunnel and modular pedestrian truck mounted lift Stand 212 evening meal with entertainment Airo: footpath, Big Astor will be showing for about 150 exhibitor staff and See Aerial and Handling Services its first People Lift push around the odd customer or two. In recent AJ Access Platforms: Stand 203 scissor - the four metre working years it has grown to a point where The largest scissor lift at the height Genius MAK1. With numbers have had to be limited to show - a 83ft Holland Lift Hybrid guardrails removed it has a stowed 750 for space and safety reasons. HL-275 H25 4WD/P/N with 27 height of just 520mm and weight This year the menu is being metre working height and 1,000kg of 94kg. Overall dimensions are expanded to include a hot buffet platform capacity - can be found 1160x790mm and has a height of with more selection and variety and on the AJ Access stand. Also on 1620mm when fitted with rails. most importantly, more seating. The the stand will be a selection of Bizzocchi: Stand 303 musical interlude will be provided refurbished aerial lifts for sale, while See CTE by the highly popular Roller Coaster, several Holland Lift specialists will Böcker: Stand 103/4 back after a two year break. Tickets Access Sales International: be on hand to offer information and See Kranlyft will be supplied to exhibitors first, Stand 401 advice on its products. with any additional tickets offered Bronto Skylift: Stand 100 The UK distributor for Ruthmann, Almac: Stand 105/6 on a first come, first served basis Truck mounted lift manufacturer Access Sales International will to those who want them. You can See Skyking Bronto will use the show to debut have a wide selection of truck put your name on the waiting list by APS: Stand 306/7 the first 47 metre S47XR in the UK. mounted lifts on the stand including emailing: [email protected]. See IAPS Mounted on a 26 tonne Volvo FM the recently launched 28.5 metre chassis with full sleeper cab and TU285, mounted on Ascendant Access: Stand 102 rear steer axle, it has been fitted Practical details a 7.5 tonne chassis. British truck and van mounted lift with a newly redesigned rotating The unit offers 20.5 manufacturer Ascendant Access Venue: camera cage. The company will metres of outreach and will have a number of van and truck Haydock Park, Newton-le-Willows, WA12 0HQ, also exhibit a fully-specified 56 a platform capacity of mounted lifts on its stand, including off junction 23 of the M6 metre S56XR, fitted with a CW-400 230kg. Other models its 22 metre A22, 18 metre A18, Show dates and times: cage winch, 1,100kg boom winch, include a 22 metre 12.5 metre VM12.5 and its Urban Wednesday 13th May: 10.00-17.30 lighting rigs and camera pods as TBR220, a 63 metre Artic unit and trailer. Following a Thursday 14th May: 10.00-16.30 well as a 90 metre S90HLA mounted T630 and a 72 metre partnership agreement between on a Volvo FM rear steer chassis. Coffee, tea and snacks served in the T720. Ascendant’s parent company Be sure to also visit its stand in the Marketplace all day. Redwood and truck manufacturer Aerial and Handling Marketplace to test your skills on its Lunch is served in the Catering Marquee: Iveco, there will be representatives Services: Stand 212 latest training simulator. 12:30-14:30 from the Italian-based company on As the Airo dealer in the the stand. Networking Event: (tickets required) UK, Aerial and Handling Wednesday 13th May: 18.30-11.00 Services will have a total ATN: Stand 310 How to Register: of seven Airo platforms ATN will show a selection of on show including three machines, including its new 10 • Pre-register online and print out your badge, articulated boom lifts metre PIAF 1000R mast boom, 8.1 • Bring along a completed invitation and swap and four scissor lifts. metre PIAF 810 tracked mast boom for a badge, or just turn up with a business It will also exhibit its and the four-wheel drive Zebra 16 The Bronto S47XR card and swap it for a badge. deckRailXtra material articulated Rough Terrain boom lift, will bemaking its UK debut

42 cranes & access April/May 2015 vertikal days c&a CMC: Stand 201 Easylift: Stand 105/6 See Ranger Equipment See Skyking Co.Me.t: Stand 101a Facelift: Stand 102 See Affordable Access Sharing a stand with Ascendant, Cormidi: Stand 312 Facelift is one of the UK’s leading access rental companies. See GGR Falcon: Stand 404 CTE UK: Stand 303 See TCA Lift CTE will display the new compact 20.7 metre Zed21.2JH which is Faraone: Stand 308 the highest self-propelled aerial lift significantly lighter than its previous Italian aerial lift and scaffold IAPS Group: Stand 306/7 on the showground with its 180ft model due to a new design, manufacturer Faraone will use IAPS’ three divisions - IPS, APS and SX-180 boom lift. Alongside it will new high-strength materials and the show to launch the Elevah 40 PSR - will all be represented on its be its newly launched electric 33ft redesigned sub-frame and outrigger Picking, a self-propelled lift/stock stand this year. IPS will launch a Z-33/18 boom lift, the 62ft diesel assembly. Mounted on a 3.5 tonne picker. Similar in shape and size to new range of parts consumables Z-62/40 boom lift, a battery electric Nissan Cabstar chassis it offers its Elevah 40 Move, an added lifting including its own branded chemical GS4047 scissor lift with enhanced an outreach of 10 metres and an shelf allows objects weighing up to and lubricant sprays, plus its Genie Smartlink control system and unrestricted platform capacity of 40kg to be lifted to a height of three Power series of deep cycle traction a compact GTH-2506 telehandler. 280kg. The company will also have metres. With an overall weight of batteries. It will also display new its 26 metre Zed26JH on show just 180kg, the battery powered Genius: Stand 510a products from its Outriggerpads mounted on a 7.5 tonne chassis. lift offers a four metre working See Big Astor division as well as showcasing the Cumberland Platforms: height and a 150kg maximum Giraf Track: Stand 312 Thermoil range of battery additives platform capacity. for the first time. PSR will have a Stand 407 See GGR new mobile service van on display Recently appointed as the UK GSR: Stand 105/6 while APS will show a range of distributor for Imer Access/Iteco, See Skyking machines from the manufacturers Cumberland will have four Imer it represents which includes Genie, scissor lifts on the stand, with Hinowa UK: Stand 305 Isoli, Niftylift, Ommelift, Wienold Lift working heights from 6.5 to 14 The new 26 metre Hinowa 26.14 and Youngman BoSS. metres, as well as the company’s Lightlift Performance IIIS spider lift 18.7 metre IM R19 and 12.8 metre will make its UK debut at Vertikal Imer: Stand 407 IM R13 spider lifts. The company Days after being unveiled at See Cumberland Platforms will also display two 13.2 metre Intermat. The company and its IP Forktrucks Socage A314 truck mounted lifts UK dealer APS, will also showcase UK rental company IP Forks will not mounted on a Toyota Hilux and an a number of other Hinowa spider be exhibiting at the show however it Isuzu D Max chassis. lifts including some from its is supporting the event by providing Lithium range and a selection one of its forklifts. of tracked dumpers. Isoli: Stand 306/7 Hinowa’s new 26.14 See IAPS Faraone will launch Performance IIIS the Elevah 40 Picking spider lift Iteco: Stand 407 See Cumberland Platforms Faresin: Stand 101d JCB: Stand 406 See KAM Trading JCB will have the largest fixed frame France Elévateur: Stand 101c telehandler at the show with its 20 See Utility Equipment metre 540-200 powered by an EU Gehl: Stand 205 stage IIIB/Tier 4 Interim engine. Also See Manitou on the stand will be the new 525-60 Genie: Stand 608 Hi Viz Loadall powered by a Kohler Tier 4 engine, along with a series of Imer’s 6.5 metre Genie is almost certain to have IM 4680 MC scissor lift features a models from JCB’s telehandler line. 360mm lateral deck extension The company will also have staff Genie’s on hand to discuss its finance and Custom Equipment: Stand 403b 180ft SX180 Holland Lift: Stand 203 boom lift insurance offers. See HY-Brid Access Platforms See AJ Access Platforms Dingli: Stand 101d HY-Brid Access Platforms: See KAM Trading Stand 403b

Dinolift: Stand 411a Custom Equipments’ UK distributor JCB’s new 525- Dinolift is exhibiting at the show Hy-Brid Access Platforms will 60 HI Viz Loadall directly for the first time as it looks have a range of low level access will be on to obtain feedback on its products platforms on show including the show - which include booms, trailers and recently CE-marked 5.66 metre spider lifts - with an eye to adapt HB1230CE self-propelled scissor them to suit the UK/Ireland market. lift and the 3.6 metre HB-P3.6 push Do stop by and give them the around. benefit of your experience.

44 cranes & access April/May 2015 KAM Trading will JLG: Stand 408/9 Liftlux: have a 11.5 metre vertikal days Vertikal Days will be the first Dingli AMWP11.5- Stand 408/9 c&a chance for many to see JLG’s 8100 mast boom See JLG will be the unique Titan Boom - half on show. new, top of the line mast boom - Manitou: Stand 205 mega deck scissor lift and half the 12 metre Toucan 12E+ with Celebrating the recent sale of its boom lift with a bit of telehandler telescopic jib. Other products will 500,000th machine, Manitou will DNA thrown in for good measure. include models from its RS rental exhibit a limited edition MLT 735 Ask about plans for its new simple range of slab scissor lifts and a 60ft telehandler painted in a special 60ft boom. 600AJ boom lift equipped with the benchmark livery. The main Multitel Pagliero: Stand 107 company’s SkyGuard secondary attraction however will be its new Multitel and its UK dealer Access guarding system with reverse 12 metre Man’Go boom lift that Industries will exhibit three new functionality. The system is now was launched at Intermat. available to retrofit to all JLG diesel truck mounted lifts, as well as booms manufactured since 2004. a number of updated products. A limited edition Launched at Intermat, the 16.2 Finally the company will show the Manitou MLT 735 metre straight telescopic MT 162 new 26 metre X26J Plus tracked KAM Trading: Stand 101d telehandler EX truck mount offers an outreach spider lift with 230kg unrestricted KAM Trading now represents Dingli platform capacity. of 11.1 metres and a maximum platforms, Manotti platforms and platform capacity of 300kg. The cranes and Faresin telehandlers - second new product is a MJ 201 so expect a very full stand. Dingli mounted on an Iveco Daily chassis, products on display include an while its third is a new 30 metre 11.5 metre AMWP11.5-8100 mast SMX 300 HD spider lift which boom along with several of Dingli’s will feature increasingly popular electric slab alongside its JLG’s 12 scissor lifts. KAM Trading will also Manotti: Stand 101d existing 25 metre launch the 20 metre Manotti double See KAM Trading metre SMX 250 Toucan pantograph GDX20E truck mounted 12E+ MEC: Stand 202 spider lift which lift on a Nissan Cabstar chassis, mast MEC, now distributed by APS, will only weighs boom as well as showing three Faresin 2,770kg. telehandlers - the FH6.25, FH14.42, exhibit a number of its innovative and FH17.40. machines including the 60ft 6092RT Multitel will Rough Terrain and hybrid 4069ERT feature a new Leguan: Stand 410 scissor lifts together with a 30ft spider lift with See Avant Tecno a 30 metre Speed Level. Most notable though working height.

April/May 2015 cranes & access 45 vertikal days c&a Nationwide Platforms: Stand 400 Visit the Nationwide Platforms stand and take a ‘selfie’ from the top of a 28 metre Ruthmann T285 truck mounted lift. Share the picture Oil&Steel’s on social media using the hashtag 14 metre #selfieatheight for a chance to win Octopus 14 spider lift a prize. Niftylift: Stand 301/2 The Niftylift stand always has a wide selection of boom and trailer Palfinger Platforms:Stand 105/6 Pecolift. Wind rated versions of both lifts on show. This year the star See Skyking products are also available and will of the show is its re-engineered be on display. 17 metre HR17N Hybrid boom lift Platform Basket: Stand 209 See Promax alongside its 86ft HR28 Hybrid self- Oil&Steel: Stand 101b Power Towers’ Pecolift and propelled articulated boom. Other Sharing a stand with sister Pop-Up Products: Stand 411 Ecolift will both feature self-propelled models include a 63ft at Vertikal Days company the PM Group, Oil&Steel While not attending the show HR21 Hybrid, a 43ft HR15 4x4 and will highlight its 14 metre Octopus itself, Snorkel UK represents the a 33ft HR12NDE. The company’s 14 spider lift, as well as its new 20 manufacturer of low level market-leading trailer lift line will metre Snake 2010H truck mounted scissor lifts. be represented by a 14.7 metre lift which has been redesigned to Power Scissor: Stand 403 150TPET model. be more lightweight and compact See The Access Platform Company as well as featuring H-style Power Towers: Stand 304 outriggers. The company will also show an 18 metre Scorpion 1812 Power Towers will exhibit a number which offers an outreach of 12 of models from its Power Tower, metres and a maximum 225kg Nano SP and Eco ranges. The platform capacity. highlight of the stand will be the new 4.2 metre Ecolift, big brother Niftylift’s HR28 Hybrid Ommelift: Stand 306/7 self-propelled boom lift to the company’s highly successful See IAPS

46 cranes & access April/May 2015 Promax Access: Stand 209 a two section telescopic boom and Promax - the Platform Basket, an articulating jib, the S19N offers c&a vertikal days Reedyk Compact Cranes and an outreach of 8.8 metres and a Faraone distributor - will have a maximum platform capacity of wide range of products on show 230kg. It is also only 780mm wide including a new lithium powered allowing it to pass through regular Spider 33.15 and a new 22 metre single doorways. Spider 22.10 with 230kg platform ReechCraft: Stand 403 capacity, both from Platform See The Access Platform Company Basket. Also on display will be Ruthmann: Stand 401 the 4.25 tonne Reedyk C3412 See Access Sales International articulated mini crane and a Skyaces: Stand 105/6 number of innovative low level access platforms from Faraone’s See Skyking Elevah range. Skyjack: Stand 412 Ranger Equipment: Stand 201 Skyjack will have a wide selection The UK distributor for CMC spider of models on show, but the star of the stand is the all-new 86ft while it competes exceptionally will also be on display. lifts will demonstrate the 14.9 well against the other products SJ86T telescopic boom lift. Its dual Skyking: Stand 105/6 metre CMC S15, alongside the on the market, it incorporates new 18.8 metre S19N spider lift. capacity range offers a maximum Skyking has expanded the line platform capacity of 341kg and Skyjack’s simple reliable Featuring a twin sigma-type riser, technology. Other key products of access products it distributes, include the SJ12/16 vertical mast which now includes GSR and Palfinger Platforms truck mounted The newly launched lifts, alongside a number of units CMC S19N spider lift from its popular DC and RT scissor lifts, Easylift spider lifts and Almac ranges including the 32ft hybrid tracked scissor lifts. The company SJ6832RTE Rough Terrain scissor will have no less than 10 machines lift. Its new range of material on its stand with working heights handling devices - Accessoryzers - ranging from 7.5 to 90 metres! Key new products to look out for are the 7.5 metre Almac Bibi Skyjack’s new 850BL tracked scissor lift and SJ86T will be Palfinger’s 48 metre P480 truck making its UK mounted platform. Pay particular debut

April/May 2015 cranes & access 47 vertikal days c&a attention to this Spiderlift: Stand 201 machine’s jib and See Ranger Equipment platform rotation TCA Lift: Stand 404 capability which has also been TCA Lift will be showing the 33 incorporated metre Falcon Spider FS330Z. With a into the 19 metre outreach and 11 metre up manufacturer’s and over height, the tracked spider new 55 metre lift has a double articulating jib and P550 truck 200kg basket capacity. Track width mount. is variable from 1.1 to 1.5 metres and wireless remote control is Snorkel: standard. Stand 411 Terex Utilities: Stand 407 Snorkel will use See Cumberland Platforms Vertikal Days to Teupen: Stand 309 launch its all-new An Almac Bibi 630 German spider and truck mounted range of electric tracked scissor lift slab scissor lifts lift manufacturer Teupen will exhibit for the European market. Painted its latest 24 metre Leo24GT spider Utility Equipment: Stand 101c in the updated Snorkel livery, the lift. Launched at Intermat and big new 19ft S3219E and 32ft S4732E brother to the 21 metre Leo21GT, As the ATN, France Elévateur and include new heavy duty steel decks, the new machine offers an outreach Oil&Steel distributor in the UK and dual side component chests, a new of 12 metres and a platform capacity Ireland, Utility Equipment looks like scissor arm and bearing design of 250kg. It also features a newly another exhibitor which will have a and several other rental friendly designed modular platform busy show. New van and chassis innovations. The show also marks allowing users to replace sections mounted platforms from France the launch of its enhanced Snorkel of a damaged platform rather Elévateur include a 142TPFe with UK operation, which has recently than the whole. class leading overall length and expanded its team with three new short rear overhang and the 131F.2 appointments and additional service mounted on a 3.5 tonne chassis. vehicles. New for the UK is the 24 metre Versalift plans to introduce a range of 284TBE truck mount on a 3.5 tonne tracked vehicles in the near future. Teupen’s new chassis. The company will also have Leo24GT a refurbished scissor lift on show. Cranes and Lifting Versalift: Stand 208 AGD Equipment: Stand 501/2 Time Versalift will launch a number The UK and Ireland distributor for of new platforms at the show as Marchetti and Sennebogen cranes, well as a number of improved AGD will feature the new 50 tonne models. The new 14.3 metre Making its Sennebogen 653E telescopic crawler ETM38F joins the ETM van mount European crane on the stand, as well as a range as big brother to the newly debut - 60 tonne Marchetti MTK60 truck Snorkel’s improved 13 metre ETM36F which mounted crane which will be making S3219E will be unveiled on a 3.5 tonne van its UK debut. In addition to its sales chassis. The 24 metre VTX240 is The Access Platform Company: operation, AGD runs one of the mounted on a 3.5 tonne chassis Stand 403 largest crawler crane rental fleets in and the 14.5 metre VT145 mounted The Access Platform Company the country. on a five tonne van. Finally it will will exhibit its widest range of low unveil its 13 metre ETL36F on a 3.5 level access equipment to date, tonne van chassis and a 13.3 metre including the recently launched five LAT135H mounted on a 4x4 Isuzu metre Skywinder 300 AT which D-Max single cab pick-up chassis. features large rough terrain tyres Socage: Stand 407 The company also plans to introduce and outriggers for outdoor use on See Cumberland Platforms a range of tracked vehicles for the challenging terrain. Also on show utility market in the near future so Speedy Services: Stand 204 will be a The new Skywinder don’t be surprised to see one or two Speedy is once again supporting range of hand 300 AT on the stand. You can also take this the show by providing all of the powered lifts chance to meet the new sales team power generation equipment and including the now headed by sales director cabling while also supplying and Quickstep, Andy Bray. The Marchetti MTK60 truck mounted installing all of the perimeter fencing Powerscissor crane which will be making its UK debut. and pedestrian barriers around the and Powerlift. Wumag: Stand 105/6 showground. As one of the UK’s Toucan: See Skyking (Palfinger Platforms) Artic Crane: Stand 108 leading providers of rental equipment Stand 408/9 Xtreme: Stand 411 See City Lifting and other associated services to See JLG See Snorkel Autoguide Equipment: Stand 300 the construction, infrastructure Youngman: Stand 306/7 Autoguide Equipment will exhibit its and industrial sectors it is certainly See IAPS Terrain Master TC600 pole erecting worth a visit.

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The Terrain Master TC600 configured as a pole erection unit

Crowland Cranes will exhibit a range of crane outrigger racks and Power-Pads unit fitted with an Autoguide Cormidi: Stand 312 40,000PXV variable speed auger and See GGR a new loader crane mounted pole grab. The tracked TC600 has been Crowland Cranes: Stand 603 specifically designed to carry either Crowland Cranes, which now sells a nine metre/tonne loader crane, and services Grove cranes, will or a 20 metre aerial work platform. exhibit a 40 tonne Grove RT540E The company will also show a Rough Terrain crane and a 20 tonne range of specialised equipment Yard Boss YB5520-1 industrial for the utility market. crane. The company has a range of Böcker: Stand 103/4 other products on display including See Kranlyft its Power-Pads outrigger mats and outrigger racks, while highlighting Broderson: Stand 612/13 its range of repair and See Tadano UK refurbishment services. Cautrac: Stand 504b Galizia: Stand 312 Located in Colchester and Bolton, See GGR Cautrac will highlight the advantages GGR: Stand 312 of rubber tracks with a Morooka crawler carrier equipped with a This year GGR will have a larger PM loader crane. Fitted with a pole display with a number of its Unic carrier, a front mounted winch and a spider cranes, including its 10 tonne blade system the Morooka utilities URW-1006. It will also launch a support unit offers exceptionally low range of auxiliary products which ground pressure, ideal for boggy or it hopes will increase the possible challenging areas. applications for spider cranes still further. Other products represented City Lifting: Stand 108 include Cormidi spider cranes and Comansa flat top tower crane dealer platforms, Galizia industrial cranes, City Lifting will have an eight tonne Paus aluminium cranes and Giraf Comansa 11LC 160 tower crane on Track cranes and telehandlers. show. With a maximum jib length of The company is also hinting at 65 metres, the crane has a compact one or two other surprises which slewing platform design, a new trolley system and a semi-automatic trolley cable tensioning system. The company also represents Artic Cranes and its Raptor articulated jib tower cranes, while running an extensive crane rental fleet of fixed Be sure to visit the and mobile tower cranes and a GGR stand for one or range of All Terrains. two surprise models...

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The Maeda MK1033CW-1 spider crane might include its recently launched Jekko: Stand 504 Kranlyft: Stand 103/4 three and five axle GMK All Terrains hydraulic luffing jib designed for its Italian mini crane and spider lift European master distributor featuring the new CCS control Unic spider cranes. manufacturer Jekko will showcase for Maeda spider and mini system with the production version Giraf Track: Stand 312 its 2.7 tonne SPX527 and 1.2 tonne cranes, Kranlyft will show the of its Crane Star tracking and remote See GGR SPX312 spider cranes alongside its new MK1033CW-1 articulated management system. The Potain tower crane line will be represented Grove: Stand 604/5 two tonne MPK20 pick&carry crane. boom spider crane. Featuring a by the IGO M14 self-erecting crane, See Manitowoc It will also have a number of its three section main boom plus a vacuum lifters on show. three section articulated jib, the featuring integrated 80km/h fast-tow Hird: Stand 211 equipment, built-in generator and John Taylor Crane Services: MK1033CW-1 has a maximum lift Valla Crane and Winlet distributor counterweight which the company Stand 213 height of 11.3 metres and working Hird will have two new Valla radius of just under 10 metres. The says finally offers a single package As Hoeflon’s UK agent, JT Cranes pick&carry cranes on its stand this company will also have a range tower crane product for easy will highlight the new 1.5 tonne C6 year, with the 12 tonne 120ES and of Böcker aluminium boom truck transportation, erection and use on compact spider crane. It will once 18 tonne 180ES. Both cranes feature mounted cranes on show with small sites. again demonstrate its novel 1.5 a newly designed five section fully lifting capabilities of between Marchetti: Stand 501/2 tonne D12 tracked carrier as well as hydraulic boom and a hydraulic 800 and 6,000kg. See AGD jib that luffs to 40 degrees. The launch the D40. Big brother to the Liebherr: Stand 606/7 Morooka: Stand 504b cabs have also been modernised D12, the D40 can carry loads up to and include load systems from four tonnes. Liebherr will have an impressive See Cautrac 3B6 - another brand it represents. range of mobile cranes at the show Also expect to see a Winlet glass including the first UK appearance handling robot. of the five axle 160 tonne LTM 1160-5.2. Also on display will be the six axle 350 tonne LTM 1350, 300 tonne LTM 1300, the 90 tonne LTM 1090, 60 tonne LTM 1060 and the unique 45 tonne LTC 1045 city NMT will probably have the largest type All Terrain crane. Completing crane on show with its new 700 tonne the line-up will be the 60 tonne Terex AC 700 Hird’s Valla 180ES LTR 1060 telescopic crawler crane. NMT: Stand 511/12 pick&carry crane Visitors will also be able to see UK crane rental company NMT will Hitachi-Sumitomo: Stand 506 demonstrations of the company’s show one of the largest cranes on Variobase outrigger set-up system See NRC site with its new 700 tonne Terex AC JT Cranes’ 1.5 tonne D12 tracked as well as a range of its model Hoeflon:Stand 213 carrier at last year’s show 700 All Terrain crane, complete with cranes in the Entrance Marquee. the crane’s escort vehicle and a new See John Taylor Crane Services Kato: Stand 103/4 150 tonne DAF tractor unit and five Hook-Up Solutions: Stand 207 See Kranlyft axle TSR ballast trailer. Alongside Hook-Up will show the production Kobelco: Stand 513 will be the company’s second Terex version of its 1.5 tonne Hooka Challenger 3180 All Terrain crane. Exhibiting at Vertikal Days for the pick&carry crane designed to move very first time Kobelco Cranes will NRC: Stand 135A bulk building materials. Mounted have a 135 tonne CKE1350G crawler UK Link-Belt and Hitachi crane on a Hinowa tracked chassis and crane on the stand. Offering a distributor is going ‘green’ this year powered by a Honda engine, the maximum combination of 61 metre with its all new Tier IV final Hitachi- ride-along pick&carry can lift loads main boom and 30 metre jib, the Sumitomo SCX800A-3. It will also up to 1.5 tonnes, or one tonne Vertikal Days will be the first UK showing G-Series model is fitted with a Stage exhibit a Tier IV Link-Belt TCC1100, pallets/bags of loose material to a of Liebherr’s new LTM-1160 5.2 IIIB (Tier 4i) engine and an auto idle/ along with a 50 tonne Linkbelt height of 2.65 metres. Weighing stop system which the company Link-Belt: Stand 506 TCC500, which is making 1.25 tonnes it only measures one claims reduces fuel consumption by See NRC its European debut. To celebrate metre wide. up to 25 percent. Maeda: Stand 103/4 its green credentials the See Kranlyft company has also Manitex: Stand 101b redesigned its logo. See PM Group NRC will be Manitowoc: Stand 604/5 showcase the new Hitachi- The Manitowoc Crane group will Sumitomo Hook-Up Solutions’ recently Kobelco will exhibit at Vertikal exhibit several models from its SCX800A-3 launched Hooka pick&carry crane Days for the very first time Grove mobile crane line including

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April/May 2015 cranes & access 51 vertikal days c&a Meetings and Semimars Wednesday 13th May 2015 Times Meetings, Seminars & Workshops Location All day inspHire - Customer 1-2-1s Newton Stand - Café 10.00 start CPA Strategic Forum Plant Safety Group ‘Outreach Meeting’ Haydock Park - Jubilee Suite (ground floor) 10.30 - 14.30 IPAF - Manufacturers Technical Committee Update Meeting & FEM MEWP Product Group Meeting Leverhulme Room 3 14.30 - 17.30 IPAF - CAP Meeting Davies Room 2 Thursday 14th May 2015 Times Meetings, Seminars & Workshops Location All day inspHire - Customer 1-2-1s Newton Stand - Café 10.00 - 12.00 IPAF - Rental Plus Meeting Whittle Suite

Exhibitor and brand listing Lifting Gear UK Stand 611 Red Plant Stand MP6 Liftlux Stand 408/9 ReechCraft Stand 403 Exhibitors/brands Falcon Stand 404 Link-Belt Stand 506 Reedyk Compact Cranes Stand 209 Access Industries Stand 107 Faraone Stand 308 Load Systems UK Stand 509b Ritchie Bros Auctioneers Stand MP1 Access Sales International Stand 401 Faresin Stand 101d Maeda Stand 103/4 Ruthmann Stand 401 Aerial and Handling Services Stand 212 Five Arrow Business Finance MP39 Magna Tyres Stand 507 Safetyliftingear Stand 509a Affordable Access Stand 101a France Elévateur Stand 101c Magnetek MP11 Sanctuary Zone Stand 212 AGD Equipment Stand 501/2 Galizia Stand 312 Manbat MP32 Sennebogen Stand 501/2 Ainscough Training Services MP15 Gehl Stand 205 Manitex Stand 101b Shawtrack Services Stand 402 Airo Stand 212 Genie Stand 608 Manitou Stand 205 Shield Batteries Stand MP25 Air-Seal Products MP34 Genius Stand 510a Manitowoc Stand 604/5 Skyaces Stand 105/6 Skyjack Stand 412 AJ Access Platforms Stand 203 GGR Stand 312 Manotti Stand 101d Skyking Stand 105/6 Alfa Access Services MP22 Giraf Track Stand 312 Marchetti Stand 501/2 Snorkel Stand 411 Almac Stand 105/6 Glasboy Stand 312 MarketBook MP30 Socage Stand 407 AlturnaMats Stand 503 Goldhofer Stand 601 MEC Stand 202 Society of Operations Engineers MP4 Amber Valley Stand 614 Ground-Guards Stand 503 Mentor Training MP10 Solum Europe MP35 Andover Trailers Stand 601 Grove Stand 604/5 Michelin Tyres Stand 210 APS Stand 306/7 GSR Stand 105/6 Speedy Services Stand 204 Millennium Personnel Services MP37 Speedy Training MP18 Artic Crane Stand 108 HEMS Entrance Marquee Mitas Tyres Stand 505 Spiderlift Stand 201 Ascendant Access Stand 102 Higher Concept Software MP8 Morooka Stand 504b Spierings Stand 602 ATN Stand 310 Hinowa UK Stand 305 Multitel Pagliero Stand 107 Sumner Lift Stand 311 Autoguide Equipment Stand 300 Hird Stand 211 My Future My Choice Newton Stand Syrinx Stand MP8 Avant Tecno Stand 410 Hitachi-Sumitomo Stand 506 Myerscough College MP38 Tadano UK Stand 612/3 Big Astor Stand 510a Hoeflon Stand 213 Nationwide Platforms Stand 400 TCA Lift Stand 404 Holland Lift Stand 203 Bizzocchi Stand 303 Niftylift Stand 301/2 Tecnomagnete MP17 Böcker Stand 103/4 Hook-Up Solutions Stand 207 NMT Stand 511/12 Terex Cranes Stand 609/10 Broderson Stand 612/13 HY-Brid Access Platforms Stand 403b Nolim Stand 510 Terex Utilities Stand 407 Bronto Skylift Stand 100 IAPS Group Stand 306/7 Nooteboom Stand 101e Teupen Stand 309 Carl Stahl Evita MP17 Imer Stand 407 NRC Stand 135A The Access Platform Company Stand 403a Cautrac Stand 504b inspHire MP28 Oadby Plastics MP23/4 The Lighthouse Club CEAsia Project Logistics MP3 Interpump Hydraulics UK MP2 Oil&Steel Stand 101b The Tackle Store Stand 509a CGS Tyres Stand 505 IP Forktrucks Ommelift Stand 306/7 Timbermat Stand 413 City Lifting Stand 108 IPAF Stand 101f Orlaco Stand MP27 TMC Lifting Supplies Stand 603 CM Labs Simulations MP31/33 IPS Stand 306/7 Ormig Stand 603 Top Service Stand MP16 CMC Stand 201 Isoli Stand 306/7 OTR Wheel Engineering MP13/4 Toucan Stand 408/9 Co.Me.t Stand 101a Iteco Stand 407 Palfinger Platforms Stand 105/6 Trackunit Stand MP9 Continental Tyres Stand 505 James Troop & Co MP26 Paus Stand 312 Trelleborg Stand 206 Trojan Battery MP5 Cormidi Stand 312 JCB Stand 406 Platform Basket Stand 209 TVH UK Stand 134 CPA Stand 508 Jekko Stand 504 Platinum Batteries MP5 Unic Stand 312 Cranesafe MP27 JLG Stand 408/9 PM Group Stand 101b UniMat Stand 500 Crowland Cranes Stand 603 John Taylor Crane Services Stand 213 Pop-Up Products Stand 411 Universal Crane Mats Stand 500 Crown Batteries MP25 KAM Trading Stand 101d Potain Stand 604/5 US Battery MP32 CTE UK Stand 303 Kato Stand 103/4 Power Jacks MP7 Cumberland Platforms Stand 407 KFS Special Vehicles Stand 600 Utility Equipment Stand 101c Power Scissor Stand 403 Valla Stand 211 Custom Equipment Stand 403b King Trailers Stand 105/6 Power Towers Stand 304 Versalift Stand 208 De Lage Landen Leasing MP20 Kirkby Tyres Stand 206 Power-Pads Stand 603 Vertikal Press Marketplace Dingli Stand 101d Kobelco Stand 513 Probst Handling Equipment Stand 200 Wienold Stand 306/7 Dinolift Stand 411a Kranlyft Stand 103/4 Promax Access Stand 209 Winlet Stand 211 Double Coin Tyres Stand 206 LEEA MP12 PSR Stand 306/7 Wumag Stand 105/6 Easylift Stand 105/6 Leguan Stand 410 QWheels Stand MP19 Xtreme Stand 411 elebia MP6 Liebherr Training Services MP29 Ranger Equipment Stand 201 Youngman Stand 306/7 Facelift Stand 102 Liebherr Stand 606/7 Rayco-Wylie Systems MP10a Zoomlion Stand 603

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KEY ACCESS NEWTON STAND Haydock CRANES MEETINGS Meeting Rooms TELEHANDLERS My Future COMPONENTS/ My Choice ELECTRONICS/ FIRST AID OTHER

ORGANISERS

OFFICE

RACE COURSE BBQ/ Sandwiches Demo Area Lunch MARQUEE CATERING Nationwide 12.30-14.30 Platforms KFS Universal Amber Mats Valley Probst Autoguide Andover Trailers 400 500 600 614 200 300 601 Bronto 100 Access MARKETPLACE Sales Int. Spierings Affordable Access Ranger AGD 401 Ainscough Training 101a Equipment 602 Air-Seal Products 201 Niftylift PM Group Shawtrack Crowland Alfa Access Services MEC Bronto Skylift (simulator) 101b 402 501-502 Cranes 603 Carl Stahl Evita 202 301-302 Access Ground-Guards Utility Equipment Platform Co. 403 503 CEAsia Project Logistics 101c AJ CM Labs Simulations CTE HY-Brid KAM Trading Access Access 403a Cranesafe Jekko Faresin/Dingli/ 203 303 Manitowoc De Lage Landen Leasing Manotti 101d TCA 504 Five Arrows Business Finance Nooteboom Speedy Power Lifts Cautrac Higher Concept Software 101e Towers 404 504a 604-605 inspHire 204 304 TVH Mitas Interpump Hydraulics UK Manitou Hinowa James Troop & Co 101f 405 505 Liebherr Training Ascendant 205 305 LEEA Access Kirkby JCB Magnetek 102 Tyres Manbat 206 IAPS 406 MarketBook Group Mentor Training Hook-Up Solutions Millennium Personnel Services Kranlyft Liebherr Myerscough College 207 306-307 Demo Area Oadby Plastics 103-104 OTR Wheel Engineering Versalift Platinum Batteries Power Jacks NRC QWheels 208 Skyking 506 Liebherr Rayco-Wylie Systems Cumberland Magna Red Plant Platforms 105-106 Tyres 606-607 Ritchie Bros 407 507 Shield Batteries Multitel Society of Operations Engineers Genie Solum Europe JLG 508 608 Speedy Training IMA Safetylifting 107 spa 509a Top Service 308 Trackunit 408-409 LSI 509b Big Promax Teupen Avant Astor 510a Terex 209 309 Tecno Nolim MARKETPLACE 410 510b Michelin ATN Tyre 609-610 210 310 Snorkel Hird Sumner 411 Lifting Lift Dinolift NMT 411a Gear UK 211 311 611 Aerial Lift Skyjack & Handling GGR 412 511-512 212 312 Tadano Faun

City Lifting JT Cranes Timbermat Kobelco 108 213 413 513 612-613

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April/May 2015 cranes & access 53 Other Exhibitors – vertikal days c&a Service, Safety, Training Electronics & Components etc…

This year the event has more providers of ancillary products and services than ever before, many of them located in the expanded Marketplace. While visiting the stands of equipment manufacturers is of course highly important, do not miss the opportunity to check out the wide range of tyre, outrigger mats, temporary roadways, software, training, and safety equipment suppliers. This might mean a second day at the show or bringing along a colleague to make sure that you do not miss out on making a contact that could significantly help your business. Ormig: Stand 603 Ainscough Training Services: See Crowland Cranes MP15 Paus: Stand 312 See GGR Ainscough Training Services is one of the UK’s largest independent PM Group: Stand 101b training providers for lifting The PM Group is now part of operations. The CPCS and CSkills Manitex, which includes PM loader Award accredited test centre cranes, Oil&Steel truck and spider Spierings will have specialises in training, technical mounted lifts, Valla, Ferraris port two self-erecting testing, NVQ’s and Experience equipment and Load King heavy mobile tower cranes on its stand this year Worker Practical Assessments as duty fork trucks. On the stand will well as Enhanced Learning Credits be a new DAF CF510 FAX super at a maximum hook height of 64.2 (ELCAS) and Career Transition space 8x2 truck fitted with the new metres. Partnership (CTP) for the Ministry PM53025 Platinum Crane with 13.8 of Defence. metres outreach lifting 3,070kg. Tadano UK: Stand 612/3 A 220 tonne Terex Explorer 5800 Alongside you will find a PM65026 Tadano will have five models from Ainscough Training its ATF All Terrain crane range on Services provides a range of training for PM’s PM53025 its stand which currently has lifting Platinium Crane lifting operations mounted on a new capacities ranging from 40 to 400 DAF CF510 FAX 8x2 tonnes. Two new cranes making chassis their worldwide exhibition debut are the 70 tonne four axle ATF 70G-4 and the 100 tonne four axle ATF100G-4 which is powered by a Euromot 4 engine. You might also ask the company for more details on its new flagship ATF crane, which with a maximum outreach of 15.30 will be unveiled next month. metres and lift capacity of 3,270kg. Terex Cranes: Stand 609/10 Potain: Stand 604/5 Terex will show its 220 tonne five See Manitowoc axle Explorer 5800 All Terrain crane, Reedyk Compact Cranes: which it claims is the strongest and Stand 209 most compact All Terrain crane in its See Promax class. Joining it this year will be a Sennebogen: Stand 501/2 six axle 350 tonne AC350-6, a 100 See AGD tonne four axle AC100/4L and a 60 tonne three axle Challenger 3180. Spierings: Stand 602 Staff will also be on hand to discuss Spierings will feature two self- the company’s service, support and erecting mobile tower cranes this finance offerings. year - its five axle SK599-AT5, which Unic: Stand 312 can lift 1,900kg to a radius of 50 See GGR metres at a maximum height of 56.3 metres as well as its six axle Valla: Stand 211 SK1265-AT6. Fitted with a Euro 6/ See Hird Tier IV engine, the SK1265 can lift Zoomlion: Stand 603 Tadano’s 70 tonne ATF 1,700kg to a radius of 60 metres See Crowland Cranes 70G-4 All Terrain crane

54 cranes & access April/May 2015 Air-Seal Products: MP34 will be launching its ‘Office in the Air-Seal’s range of tyre sealants Sky’ simulator challenge. c&a vertikal days can prevent up to 95 percent of all Scheduled to tour the UK following punctures up to 30mm and claims the show, all operators are welcome to stop all rim, bead and other slow to enter the competition, with air leaks. Suitable for a wide range the winner being awarded a trip of equipment including cranes and to Bronto’s production facility in telehandlers, a single treatment Tampere, Finland. can cost less than one tyre repair Carl Stahl Evita: MP17 and reportedly lasts the legal life UK lifting and hoisting equipment of the tyre. specialist Carl Stahl Evita will display Alfa Access Services: MP22 the latest permanent lifting magnets Established in 2009, Alfa Access from Tecnomagnete which have Services specialises in the repair, lifting capacities of between 125kg service, training and LOLER and two tonnes. inspection of aerial work platforms A Tecnomagnete as well as bespoke installations. MaxX lifting magnet It is also the UK service partner for Teupen providing original spare parts, training and technical backup.

CEAsia Project Logistics: Alfa’s fully-equipped vans allow it to MP3 provide its services throughout in the UK. CEA offers a range of transportation, AlturnaMats: Stand 503 shipping and project logistics See Ground-Guards services throughout Southeast Asia. Amber Valley: Stand 614 It also has a range of six CEA Surelift Vehicle safety equipment modular spreader beams which manufacturer Amber Valley will have lifting capacities from 50 have a range of new devices on to 400 tonnes. show including secondary guarding CGS Tyres: Stand 505 warning alarms, the GreenEyes See Mitas Tyres seatbelt monitoring system and MP31/33 its own Blue Alarmalight and CM Labs Simulations: Overloader Alarmalight systems. Making its show debut, virtual It will also have a range of newly simulation specialist CM Labs will designed LED striplights which are have two highly sophisticated available in varying sizes. training simulators set up in the Marketplace. The first is designed Andover Trailers: Stand 601 for training on crane and heavy Andover Trailers provides bespoke equipment and features five display transport solutions for the access, screens, a motion platform and real lifting and construction equipment machine controls and joysticks. The industries. As such, it will be second is its desktop-sized Vortex exhibiting its latest rigid plant body Trainer crane and heavy equipment and sloping semi-trailer range along simulator which typically comes with a range of safety and securing with one HD flat panel display, a equipment. As the UK distributor for touch screen for the equipment LMI Goldhofer Trailers it will also exhibit and controls, and joysticks. an extending four axle, power- steered step-frame trailer.

CM Labs will have An 18 tonne two training access body from simulators Andover Trailers providing virtual Bronto Skylift (simulator): crane, tower MP36 crane and excavator Bronto can also be found in the training Marketplace this year where it

April/May 2015 cranes & access 55 enhancements to its inspHire or custom build specifications. vertikal days c&a Mobile which allows users to Kirkby Tyres: Stand 206 add parts, capture engineers The UK distributor for Alliance, BKT, signatures, record the time a job Double Coin, Longmarch, Malhotra, was completed, add labour costs Sailun and Trelleborg, Kirkby Tyres is and notes to workshop jobs directly one of the UK and Ireland’s leading from an Android device as well as suppliers of tyres and wheels. The complete LOLER examinations. Be company also offers bespoke wheel sure to visit the stand for a free manufacturing solutions and off-the- tailored demonstration on its hire shelf factory finished wheels. software and mobile solutions. LEEA: MP12 Interpump Hydraulics UK: MP2 The UK-based Lifting Equipment Making its Vertikal Days debut, Engineers Association (LEEA) is Interpump Hydraulics UK offers seeing the continued geographic a wide range of hydraulic and spread and distribution of its mechanical components, including sole traders. As well as providing authoritative Code of Practice for Continental Tyres: Stand 505 power take-offs, hydraulic pumps, finance for the purchase of new the Safe Use of Lifting Equipment See Mitas Tyres directional control valves, split assets or refinancing assets to (COPSULE) and range of training Stand 508 shafts and power packs. The CPA: generate additional cash flow it courses, delivered by its member company also supports a range The Construction Plant-hire offers commercial finance solutions companies. It will highlight these of Interpump Hydraulics brands Association helps members with for mergers and acquisitions, MBOs along with the latest edition of its including Hydrocar, Muncie, Galtech, issues including employee health and Management Buy Ins (MBIs) for User’s Pocket Guide and ‘TEAM Hydroven, Panni and IMM. and safety, machinery standards mid-market to larger businesses. card’ registration scheme for IPAF: Stand 101f and emission control, skills and Glasboy: Stand 312 qualified technicians. employment. It will also hold its See GGR IPAF’s focus this year will be on Liebherr Training Services: Strategic Forum Plant Safety Group its new eLearning courses. Visit Goldhofer: Stand 601 MP29 Outreach Meeting on the first day the stand to learn more about the to discuss operator competence, See Andover Trailers course and the benefits of remote Liebherr’s UK training division offers medical fitness, the public health Ground-Guards: Stand 503 eLearning for both operators and qualifications, assessments and responsibility deal, telehandlers and Ground-Guards will use Vertikal Days managers. The federation will also training for a wide range of skills, suspended loads, and the recently to launch its MaxiTrack temporary be demonstrating the new practical including appointed person, crane published guidance on ground roadway system on the UK market. test from the IPAF Operator course. supervisor, slinger & signaller, crane conditions. operator, aerial work platforms, This latest addition to its range of IPS: Stand 306/7 LICCON planner, the influence of Cranesafe: MP27 plastic ground protection systems See IAPS wind on lifting operations and NVQs Tower crane anti-collision specialist combines extra heavy duty strength, James Troop & Co: MP26 in relevant disciplines. It also offers Cranesafe - part of the SMIE group - with a special lightweight design Based in Runcorn, UK, James training on Liebherr’s new mobile will display a range of anemometers, that enables them to be easily Troop is a family-run company crane VarioBase system. wind speed alarms and Orlaco hook- handled. Weighing just 1kg more that specialises in diesel engines, view/winch-view crane cameras. than its standard Ground-Guards, supplying new engines, parts, Liebherr offers The company will also demonstrate the company claims the MaxiTrack servicing and repairs for a wide training on its new the latest version of its ProSite crane are twice as thick and three times mobile cranes range of market sectors. Its management system which now as rigid. The company is also VarioBase system franchises include Deutz, Volvo incorporates a 3D aspect. supporting the event by providing all of the ground mats for the show. Penta, MTU and MAN. Crown Batteries: MP25 KFS Special Vehicles: Stand 600 See Shield Batteries HEMS: Entrance Marquee Low loader vehicle specialist KFS De Lage Landen Leasing: MP20 Heavy Equipment Model Show (HEMS) will have a collection of will exhibit its latest Plant & Go International asset finance miniature crane, heavy haulage and transporter aimed at construction provider De Lage Landen will have construction equipment models on equipment rental companies. specialists on hand to discuss display in the Entrance Marquee and Mounted to a 3.5 tonne van chassis, tailored financial solutions for will be promoting its show, which the Plant & Go removes the need equipment manufacturers, dealers is being held in Blackburn on 26th for a trailer and provides a low floor and distributors as well as special October. height of 530mm, ribbed aluminium solutions for rental companies. floor for grip and two metre Higher Concept Software: MP8 Double Coin Tyres: Stand 206 aluminium ramps as standard. See Kirkby Tyres Rental management software Drop sides and a full tail gate are producer Higher Concept will also available. elebia: MP6 showcase its Syrinx technology and See Red Plant The latest KFS Plant & its latest features which include Go transporter Lifting Gear UK: Stand 611 Five Arrows Business Finance: PDA access, Android driver app, Lifting and handling rigging Bi-Dashboard, customer extranet MP39 equipment specialist Lifting Gear and its innovative field sales tablet Asset based finance and invoice UK provides a wide range of heavy applications. It will also offer solutions company Five Arrows lifting equipment for hire or sale complimentary one-to-one training Business Finance (FABF) - part of as well as providing LOLER sessions for Syrinx customers the Rothschild Group - provides King Trailers: Stand 105/6 inspections and certification attending the show. short-term financing to complete Sister company to Skyking, King services. The company also has funding packages for the entire inspHire: MP28 Trailers offers a wide range of a lifting projects division which spectrum of public and private inspHire will demonstrate its rental specialist equipment, general plant specialises in contract lift limited companies, partnerships and software solutions, including the trailers and truck bodies to standard work and heavy lifting equipment.

56 cranes & access April/May 2015 vertikal days c&a operator and lifting personnel recruitment specialists in the UK. With a database of more than 8,000 crane operators, it finds jobs for hundreds of its operators every week. Mitas Tyres: Stand 505 Mitas Tyres is the sole manufacturer of Mitas, Continental and Cultor branded tyres. Visit the stand to find out more on the Mitas CR-01 All Terrain crane tyre which it says provides high speed capabilities of up to 85km/h, excellent traction and grip as well as restricting tread movement/shuffle. The tread is also regrooveable, offering extended tyre life and lower costs. Myerscough College: MP38 Myerscough has a specialist engineering department that runs dedicated courses for crane, access and general plant service engineers. Load Systems UK: Stand 509b Magnetek: MP11 claims delivers enhanced battery My Future My Choice: The latest products from the Magnetek will exhibit its full line performance, better charging Newton Stand UK division of Load Systems of wireless controls for lifting capacity and more durable characteristics. My Future My Choice works with International includes its range equipment including its Flex Pro school children to show them of wireless under hook load cells proportional control transmitter and MarketBook: MP30 the possibilities of a career in which can be used with the load cell its new line of ‘mini’ wireless MarketBook is the online destination engineering. Sponsored this year by communicator software to provide controls. for truck, farm and heavy equipment Liebherr, it will set up in the Newton real time readings from a PC. Also buyers and sellers. Stop by the stand Stand organising several workshops on display will be the company’s to preview its website and pick up a for local school children in order to RCI-8510 rated capacity limiter and free publication! help ignite an interest at an early crane control which is ideal for both Mentor Training: MP10 age. As part the workshop it will original equipment manufacturers take the children on a guided tour of and easy retrofitting. As one of the UK’s leading training providers Mentor Training delivers the show exploring the principles of IPAF, PASMA and ALLMI accredited pneumatics, hydraulics, gears and courses, either from its centres pulleys. Keep an eye out for what or from customers/delegates own might be the future of crane, access Magnetek’s new mini-PGT transmitter. premises. Visit the stand to discover and telehandler people! the benefits of onsite accredited Nolim: Stand 510 Manbat: MP32 operator training courses. Founded in 2007 Nolim provides a Battery distributor Manbat will Michelin Tyres: Stand 210 wide range of outrigger pads and launch US Battery’s XC2 range of mats made from a lightweight and Load Systems’ RCI-8510 manages six-volt and 12-volt batteries to the Michelin will show its range of all aspects of the crane and has an crane tyres, including its high-quality plastic - HMPE-500R extensive load chart memory. UK market. Specifically designed (High Molecular Poly Ethylene) - for deep cycle applications such X Crane+ 525/80 R 25 and X Magna Tyres: Stand 507 Crane+ 445/95 R 25 tyres. which are suitable for cranes and as aerial lifts, the new range aerial lifts. It also offers several Another company making its incorporates synthetic tetrabasic Millennium Personnel methods of stowing outrigger Vertikal Days debut, Magna Tyres lead sulphate (TTBLS) into the Services: MP37 pads which can be bolted to a will promote its specially developed production of its plates and benefits MPS is one of the largest crane vehicle chassis. crane tyre - the Magna MA03. from a uniformly fine crystal plate Available in 385/95R24, 385/95R25, structure, which the company 445/95R25 and 525/80R25 tyre sizes, Terex has been using the MA03 tyre on its All Terrain cranes since 2010.

As well as offering outrigger pads and mats Nolim Magna tyres being also offers used on a Terex All stainless steel Manbat will launch US Battery’s XC2 Terrain crane holsters range of batteries to the UK market.

58 cranes & access April/May 2015 c&a vertikal days Nooteboom’s three axle exMCOS-48-03(EB) step frame trailer. Nooteboom: Stand 101e Dutch transport trailer manufacturer Nooteboom will exhibit its three axle exMCOS-48-03(EB) power-steered step frame trailer. Its many features include a hydraulic raising platform, manual override steering and flip-toe hydraulic rear loading ramps. Oadby Plastics: MP23/4 Oadby Plastics will introduce its new range of Crane Pads and mats, cable sheaves and track plates. The company also offers one of the largest plastic machining facilities dedicated to bespoke CNC routing, milling turning and fabrication. Orlaco: Stand MP27 Platinum Batteries: MP5 You can see the latest from the Platinum Batteries is the exclusive boom nose camera manufacturer master distributor for Trojan Battery on the Cranesafe stand. in the UK. Its services include next OTR Wheel Engineering: day nationwide delivery, guaranteed availability, no minimum order MP13/4 quantity or delivery charges and full OTR Wheel Engineering designs, technical support and field sales manufactures and supplies a wide support. range of wheels and tyres for all Power Jacks: MP7 kinds of industrial and construction machinery. The company also has British electro-mechanical lifting a service exchange programme for positioning and load monitoring Oadby will Platinum Batteries is the UK solutions manufacturer Power introduce its new replacement wheels, tyres and fill. distributor for Trojan Battery range of Crane Pads.

April/May 2015 cranes & access 59 working in the construction or vertikal days off-shore sectors including overload c&a systems and load monitoring indicators. Red Plant: Stand MP6 Red Plant will once again set up in the Marketplace with its range of elebia automatic crane hooks, allowing operators to remotely attach and release a load without needing to handle rigging to release or connect the load or climb onto a truck bed. The hook is available in three sizes capable of lifting five, 10 or 20 tonnes and recently the company had been working on incorporating load scales into the hooks. Ritchie Bros Auctioneers: Stand MP1 Last year Ritchie Bros sold more than $4.2 billion worth of equipment at 349 auctions throughout the world. Its next UK auction is scheduled for July 14th from its site in Donington Park. Anyone looking to buy or sell equipment should definitely stop by and have a chat. Safetyliftingear: Stand 509a Safetyliftingear provides an Jacks will showcase its latest load PSR: Stand 306/7 extensive range of lifting, fall cells, load pin shackles and winch See IAPS protection, material handling and monitoring systems. A Probst block grab QWheels: Stand MP19 Safetyliftingear Power Jacks will QW Wheels for Lifting and Access, will have a number showcase its a division of UK-based wheel of new products latest load cells, including a load pin shackles manufacturer QWheels, offers a battery and winch wheel refurbishment programme powered monitoring for old wheels which recovers electric systems them in new polyurethane. Able to chain provide a number of different tread hoist. patterns, the centre of the wheels can also be painted in a choice of colours and styles. Rayco-Wylie Systems: MP10a Safety systems and sensors materials handling equipment within manufacturer Rayco-Wylie provides the UK for 30 years. On its stand this solutions for all types of cranes Power-Pads: Stand 603 year will be a range of both vacuum See Crowland Cranes and mechanical kerb lifters which Probst Handling Equipment: eliminate bad manual handling Ritchie Bros has more than 40 practices while helping contractors auction locations around the world Stand 200 work to the latest health and safety Probst has been a supplier of regulations.

A selection of QW’s refurbished polyurethane coated wheels

60 cranes & access April/May 2015 Niftylift will be out in force load restraint products as well as full after sales service including inspection, testing and repair. As well as offering its G-Force, LiftinGear, Strap-on and Loadsurfer brands, the company is also the master distributor for Elephant hoists, Force Chain, Boscaro Site Handling and Lifting Equipment. Sanctuary Zone: Stand 212 See Aerial and Handling Services Crown batteries are proving increasingly popular with aerial lift manufacturers. Shawtrack Services: Stand 402 UK custom truck bed manufacturer such as thicker plates, more Shawtrack will exhibit its latest type headroom for electrolyte and built-in approved, beavertail body designs, Pro Eye to monitor levels. Shield mounted on both 7.5 and 26 tonne has been targeting the replacement chassis. In the past couple of years, market for aerial lifts for several the company has gone through a years and is happy to demonstrate number of changes, selling its rental the benefits of its service. fleet and completely changing its SOE: MP4 management team - so definitely The Society of Operations Engineers worth a visit to find out what the (SOE) works to advance operations company is up to. engineering through education, Shield Batteries: Stand MP25 training, study and research. Shield Batteries is the UK importer Through its professional sectors for Crown deep cycle batteries of IRTE, IPlantE and BES, SOE which are proving increasingly has a direct influence on the road popular with aerial lift manufacturers transport, plant and engineer and fleet owners. Crown has surveying sectors, developing best invested heavily to add value to its practice and improving compliance deep cycle batteries with features across the board.

Shawtrack beavertail body mounted on a 26 tonne Mercedes chassis

April/May 2015 cranes & access 61 62 cranes & access April/May 2015 Used in a number vertikal days of different c&a arrangements Solum’s crane outrigger pads can spread loads of up to 100 tonnes.

Solum Europe: MP35 TMC Lifting Supplies: Stand 603 The company will offer free credit TVH will hold Solum is exhibiting its innovative See Crowland Cranes information and credit control a raffle for advice at the show. Be sure to stop the chance temporary foundation and crane Tecnomagnete : MP17 by if you have any questions on to win a outrigger mats, which have been See Carl Stahl Evita child’s Linde credit information, company and forklift. designed to deliver the perfect The Lighthouse Club: balance between strength and director monitoring, chasing letters, weight. Available in a range of sizes The Lighthouse Club is a charity debt recovery, pre-litigation and all they can be used in a number of that provides support for services relating to credit control. arrangements to spread up to 100 construction workers and their Trackunit: Stand MP9 families. Collection boxes for tonnes of load pressure. Last year Danish fleet management donations can be found in the resources in the sector. It plans system and telematics provider Speedy Training: MP18 Entrance Marquee and on the TVH to hold a business card raffle at Trackunit opened its first UK branch With over 100 experienced stand. the show for the chance to win trainers at more than 200 locations in Reading. The company will return The Tackle Store: Stand 509a a child’s Linde forklift. It will also nationwide the training division of to Vertikal Days with two solutions have a range of parts and will See Safetyliftingear Speedy Hire offers a wide range of suited for access platforms, towers introduce customers to its recent IPAF and PASMA operator, safety Timbermat: Stand 413 and cranes with its SmartID and MyTotalSource program that is and skills courses. Stop by its stand Timbermat will exhibit its range of DualID. Compatible with IPAF Smart available 24/7. in the Marketplace and have a chat. temporary roadways and walkway cards or with unique PIN codes, the software can help eliminate US Battery: MP32 Sumner Lift: Stand 311 solutions at the show. These See Manbat include Timbermat hardwood and untrained operation by only Returning to Vertikal Days, Sumner Ekki tropical bog mats, heavy duty allowing use depending on level of Vertikal Press: Lift has moved to the outside area crane mats and outriggers, and training received. Marketplace to demonstrate its entire range Emtek timber mats which provide Trelleborg: Stand 206 International specialist of steel and aluminium material certified loading and deflection See Kirkby Tyres publisher and provider lifting equipment and portable calculations. Trojan Battery: MP5 of information on aluminium gantries, as well as a the lifting industry, Top Service: Stand MP16 See Platinum Batteries new prototype counterbalance the company is material lift, which is currently Credit information provider TVH UK: Stand 134 responsible for Cranes being assembled in the UK. specialist Top Service operates the TVH has been active in the UK for & Access and Kran & Bühne Syrinx: Stand MP8 most extensive credit checking 25 years, offering a wide selection magazines, the online news service See Higher Concept Software system in the construction and of replacement parts, products, and information database Vertikal. equipment related industries. services and accessories to the net, and is also the organiser of Sumner Members provide unique input telehandler, aerial work platform Vertikal Days and other events. Lift will on slow payers, which offers a and agricultural sectors. Its demonstrate Wienold: Stand 306/7 unique background to a potential specialist powered access business its entire customer in comparison with the See IAPS range of has been growing at a rapid pace in material standard credit checking systems. recent years as it invests additional Winlet: Stand 211 lifting See Hird equipment

Timbermat will have a range of temporary access solutions including a number of tropical Ekki hardwood mats

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Summit c&a IPAF summit in DC This year’s IPAF Summit was held in Washington DC close to the Pentagon, the second time it has

been held in the USA since 2013. While the number The networking event of delegates attending was substantially down on last year’s meetings in Windsor, the event was well organised and the content of the presentations to a high standard, with some very stimulating and informative content. recruitment of 72 new members, taking the current total to 1,109, and a 7.9 percent increase in the number of people trained to 137,429 a new record. He also reminded those present that when he started his two year term one of the aims was to increase the federation’s focus on its original objectives and principles. The re-incorporation of those objectives is, he hopes, just the start. Other business included the adoption of the accounts for Andy Studdert of NES Rentals takes over the IPAF presidency from 2014, which show a 9.4 percent Steve Couling increase in both revenues - to £4.65 million - and profit margin/surplus What started out as a short - to £149,500. Cash reserves also The Summit AGM and networking lunch has increased 9.5 percent to £530,600. now almost blossomed into a The accounts were approved the warning is not heeded. A GPS also include a GPS device, allowing two day event which kicked off unopposed. transmitter within the vest would the operator to map an obstacle on Tuesday night with a two The AGM was followed by the keep a live record of who is on site found in his pre use ground check, hour networking session at the Summit, with presentations and where, while warning drivers such as a kerb, the machine would National Press Club, a prestigious covering a variety of safety of any workers to look out for, while then automatically avoid it should venue close the White House. and technical issues. Particular the wearer would be warned to look the operator forget. Time however was a little short, highlights included Frank out for an approaching machine. Finally he referred to the adoption of especially given how far many Nerenhausen of JLG with a talk Head up displays built into platform or boom mounted robotics had travelled, and how many entitled ‘Gimmicks or the next safety glasses and/or a helmet, allowing work to be carried out from people attending had never reality’. His presentation was providing all manner of data, the ground, eliminating human work met before. Most would have not only stimulating, but also starting with the pre-use checks - a at height entirely. benefited from another hour or so. exceptionally well researched and simple glance at hydraulic and fuel Stefan Ponea of Industrial Access, The Annual General Meeting next illustrated. He raised three key reservoirs for example would show Romania, gave a fascinating insight morning was surprisingly well areas where technology might play their precise levels, etc. They might into gangs of thieves and fraudulent attended although the number of full a significant role with powered members entitled to vote seemed access. to be a little thin on the ground. The Wearables - including a hi-viz accounts were approved, while vest with built in harness and Andy Studdert of NES Rentals an embedded RFID chip that was elected as the new president, automatically communicates taking over from Steve Couling who with the machine, identifying the had completed his two year term. operator, his level of training and Nick Selley of AFI took over from approval to use the machine, as well Studdert as deputy president and as obliging him to attach his lanyard Brad Boehler of Skyjack assumed and all before the machine will start. Selley’s position as vice president. Proximity devices built into the vest All positions were unopposed. would also warn him of overhead Couling spoke on the achievements obstacles or the presence of power in 2014, which included the lines, cutting the machine out if

April/May 2015 cranes & access 67 Frank IPAF summit Nerenhausen of c&a JLG floated some innovative ideas for the future

entertaining manner that captivated the audience at a time when they might otherwise have been ready Tim Whiteman with lifetime achievment award to doze. winner Ray Smith and Alastair Robertson Jordan Barab, deputy assistant secretary of Labor and second in command at OSHA, updated And the winner is: delegates on the organisation’s efforts to reduce work place injuries and fatalities. Around 13 workplace All motions were carried fatalities occur every day of the unopposed year in the USA. This has dropped from 10 deaths per 100,000 in 1974 to 3.4 today, there is still a long Brad Boehler wanted to give the Americans a scare with way to go and increased economic “the British are coming” activity has raised the death toll in the past year. Recent initiatives have included the reinstatement of transactions in a market where a requirement for fall protection on there is little respect for the rule of residential construction and the new law. The solution includes training requirement for companies to report staff to use their instincts, greater all employee hospitalisations. checks and telematics technology After the Summit it was on to the awards dinner. Hosted this year He also pointed out how workplace by comedian Sean Collins - who not only had everyone laughing but that alerts the team to theft accidents lead to inequality, within the first hour of an irregular also maintained audience attention through the fairly long awards as contrary to most people’s presentations. movement. He also relayed how he perception, around half the cost of tracked down a team of international an injury is borne by the employee This year’s winners were: criminals from Ireland and managed himself and secondly the state, • IPAF Training Instructor of the Year - to recover his equipment. while Workers Compensation Hansen Ng of BS Technology, Singapore Norty Turner of Riwal not only schemes only cover around 11 • IPAF Training Centre of the Year - A-Plant in the UK provided a candid presentation percent of the cost. The state is • Access Photograph of the Year - Jonathan Till of GT Access in the UK of the challenges involved with effectively subsidising companies opening rental operations overseas, that are not properly protecting their • Product of the Year - Low Level Access - especially in the developing world, employees, while injured employees Faraone of Italy for the Elevah 40 Move but did so in a theatrical and take a hit to their finances. • Product of the Year Mast Climbing Work Platforms/Hoists - Maber of Italy for the MB A 2000/150 The vehicle mounted • Product of the Year Vehicle Mounted - Palfinger Platforms for product of the year the 48 metre P480 went to Palfinger’s • Product of the Year Self-Propelled - Holland Lift for the 27 metre P480 truck mount Hybrid HL275 H25 4WD/P/N • Outstanding Customer Service - NES Rentals of the USA • Contribution to Safe Working At height - HSS Hire of the UK for fitting secondary guarding on all boom lifts in its fleet. • Powered Access Pioneer - Herz Equipment Rental China • Project of the year Award - Scanclimber, Scan Rent and PMB Façade Technology of Malaysia. • Access Rental Company of the year - Mateco of Germany • International Lifetime Achievement award went to Raymond E. Smith Jnr who founded, built up and sold several aerial lift manufacturing companies, stating with Smiths Industries which he bought from his father, developing the Smith Mite-E-Lift range of push-around scissor lifts in 1969. He also registered numerous patents relating to aerial work platforms during his career, many of which are still current.

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This is in contrast can also be lifted using a separately and there is no lateral reach without having to “hanging work baskets” material winch. awkward on-site assembly. to be retracted, getting stuck that are also available on the MK1033C Knuckleboom Crane • Hydraulic 6-section luffing boom and jib Consider the Possibilities! • 0.995t lifting capacity • 11.3m lifting height • Serious “up and over” capacity for glass handling, roof work etc • Multi outrigger positions • Optional self-detachable electric motor • Super slim body width (750mm) • Optional 820kg winch with hydraulic disc brake [email protected] Call Us On:- www.maedacranes.com 0117 9826661 c&a CPA The ground A Liebherr LTM1500 which overturned in Scotland after the ground under one you work on... of its outriggers gave way As well as being aware of everything happening on site, all contractors need to know and understand the ground they are working on. Failure to do so can have serious and life-changing consequences. The load that machinery places also hide drains, culverts, tunnels on the ground is in many cases and other underground features that simply the weight of the machine. can seriously affect the strength of But it can also include the weight the ground. of a load being lifted – for a mobile Whenever a machine loses control crane, this can mean a massive or overturns, there is always the increase in the forces being applied possibility of serious or fatal injuries through the outriggers, which to the driver, and those working in will change as the load is moved. the area. Even if no injury occurs, The force exerted on the ground there will be serious losses, as can also be a lot more than the not only is production disrupted, weight of the machine and load. but the recovery operation can be For example, an excavator pulling a difficult and costly. Research work sheet pile also has to overcome the by the HSE found that for every friction/gripping force of the ground £1 recovered through insurance holding the sheet. These loads are following an incident, a further £8 increased by the natural forward to £36 could not be recovered. tipping movement of the excavator, The principal contractor in charge of transferring weight and force to the site has ultimate responsibility the front of the tracks – often close for assessing and managing the to the edge of the excavation it is capability of the ground. They working on. must work with equipment machine. This may mean that the account of changes in the task If the ground gives way, the companies, sub-contractors and machine needs to be changed, being done, but also changes to site machine could move unexpectedly, ground engineering specialists as or that the job needs to be done conditions as a result of rain, snow, or completely overturn. This necessary to minimise the risk of differently, or that work needs to flooding or other influences. be done to improve the ground’s The Strategic Forum Plant Safety strength. Group recently published new Information about the ground guidance on Ground Conditions, itself may already be available in conjunction with the HSE, from previous assessments, or Temporary Works Forum and other records, plans and specifications industry bodies. The new work from work which has already been emphasises the importance of the completed. Sometimes, however, principal contractor’s coordinating investigations on site are required. role, and that by ensuring that the This may involve digging trial supply chain communicates and pits, or a collection of samples works together, overall levels of risk using bores. The level of detail can be driven down. When sectors in the ground investigation and work in isolation, responsibilities assessment needs to reflect the and liabilities are frequently complexity of the job, the reliability displaced to others, without of the information, and the margins actually reducing the overall risk of safety that result from the level. selection of machinery. Monitoring The new guidance can be and management of ground downloaded from the CPA website conditions needs to continue as at: www.cpa.uk.net can be caused by something as ground failure. Assessment and work progresses, not only to take simple as an outrigger punching management of ground conditions through a tarmac surface, or a must be part of the planning more complex failure of soil strata process with two key areas some metres below the surface. considered. One is the selection of The types of ground that need to machine and determining the nature be taken into account are as varied and scale of the loads and forces it as construction sites, and includes will apply to the ground. The second natural undisturbed ground, areas is to gather information about the that have been worked in the past ground and its bearing capacity. or as part of the current project, When sufficient information is embankments, spoil heaps, gathered, an assessment is made roadways, car parks, docks, and as to whether the ground will take other structures. The surface can the loads imposed by the selected

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Manitowoc is providing preventive maintenance training for operators in South America Virtual simulators provide a cost effective and safe method of training Operator training Virtual training for from Manitowoc Manitowoc has introduced a training programme for South America, aimed at providing operators with preventive maintenance training 3,200t crane for its cranes. Available in both Portuguese and Spanish, from facilities in Brazil, Chile, International heavy lift company Mammoet has installed a custom-built Mexico and other locations in South and Central America, the three to five PTC simulator at its training centre in the Netherlands to provide virtual day courses provide specific instructions on crane operation, diagnostics, training on its largest crane - the 3,200 tonne PTC 140/200 DS. maintenance and repairs. They also emphasise electric, hydraulic, pneumatic, The simulator has been designed to precisely replicate the real crane and and mechanical theory and practical tests. Once completed, trainees receive features the same operating system, cab, server rack, crane control cabinet a technical certification endorsed by Manitowoc. and an instructor station. High definition screens and multiple speakers provide realistic visuals and sounds of the crane and its surroundings, while its programming also provides an almost endless number of training Repeat offences costs $184k scenarios. Variables range from the configuration of the crane to the size and Jacksonville, Florida, roofing contractor Great White Construction was weight of the load and different weather conditions. fined $184,000, after its employees were caught working on sites The simulator also provides operates with the chance to practice real-life without fall protection last September and October. lifts, as well as serve to demonstrate the proposed lift to clients by using a Since 2012, OSHA has inspected Great White sites five times and issued virtual model of their facility and the component being lifted. Furthermore, multiple citations for repeated and serious violations of fall protection and the software can be used to make an extensive risk assessment as well other safety standards. Other violations have included not training employees as practice the lift under various circumstances, providing Mammoet with in how to use fall protection systems. more time to prepare the operation in detail. The entire crew is also able see Brian Sturtecky, OSHA area director in Jacksonville, said: “The crew what the job entails, how long it might take and identify potential hazards. leader told the inspector that he was given proper equipment and training and knew the regulations, but chose to ignore them. OSHA will continue to cite violations and issue penalties when employers fail in their responsibility MOM steps up crane to protect workers.” inspections My Future My Choice Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower has launched an enforcement Education charity My Future My Choice will host two ‘Lifting Aspirations’ operation targeting crane and lifting operations following seven workshops at Vertikal Days, with the aim to encourage and inspire reported incidents since January. school children on the benefits of working in the crane and lifting sector. Chan Yew Kwong, MOM director of the Occupational Safety and Health Sponsored by Liebherr UK, and using volunteers from the construction Inspectorate, said: “I am dismayed that we have seen six accidents involving industry, the children will work together to construct a cardboard crane cranes in less than three weeks. This is totally unacceptable. Our preliminary or robotic hydraulic arm, whilst exploring the principles of pneumatics, findings indicate that many of these cases could have been prevented if lifting hydraulics, gears and pulleys. plans were properly implemented and regular functionality checks on crane’s They will also learn the lifestyle safety devices were conducted. Safety is paramount. Employers must play opportunities available in the lifting their part in taking the necessary preventive measures to put an end to unsafe and access industry, while having lifting operations.” a fun learning opportunity. The MOM has had a number There have been seven workshops will be followed by a of such ‘crackdowns’ crane related incidents supervised tour of the exhibition. since new crane rules since January were published in 2011, My Future My Choice will once again be the latest of which took exhibiting at Vertikal Days this year. place last November. Each time it takes action against around 80 companies. Some claim Who trained that in between the public crackdowns, them then? the ministry comes under pressure to Spotted in Australia, a man ‘back-off’ its using a step ladder on a inspections. sloping roof to reach an antenna.

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NASC launch safety report c&a CISRS/NASC focus NASC has launched its 2015 Safety Report, documenting all accident statistics from its contracting members. The report, which is available to download from the NASC website, compiles all accident data from 2014, submitted by NASC contracting members as part of its membership requirements. The report includes: • Injuries and fatalities to employees, members of the public and third parties • Accident causes and types • Detailed analysis of accidents • Comparison of HSE/NASC accident statistics • What the NASC does to support safe scaffolding practice Although no fatalities were recorded within the membership last year, the total number of accidents increased by nine percent to 105, from 96 in 2013. This however corresponds with a nine percent increase in the total number of member employees, which now stands at 14,988. The report also shows that there were 24 falls from height, with the highest reported fall being from NASC staff will be on hand to a height of six metres. Nine of the falls were from scaffolds and working discuss membership, auditing, platforms, while seven falls were from ladders. NASC publications and scaffold inspection training In 2014 41 percent of accidents occurred to operatives aged 21 to 30, followed by 23 percent to to those aged 41 to 50, accounting for 64 percent of all accidents. For the 16 to 40 age group, slips, trips and falls were the Health & Safety Scotland highest cause of accidents, with 23 incidents, followed by 16 falls from height, 13 manual handling incidents, and two incidents resulting from falling On 22-23rd April, the NASC and CISRS will exhibit materials. For those aged over 41 years old, slips, trips and falls were also at the Health & Safety Scotland event and seminar at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre the major cause of accidents, accounting for 16 incidents. These statistics in Glasgow. As well as using the event to follow a very similar pattern to those reported in the 2014 NASC Safety Report. highlight the 2015 Safety Report, NASC will Further analysis shows that the most common injuries suffered were to the actively promote the planned launch of its feet, toes and ankles, followed by injuries to the hands, fingers and wrists. SG4:15 safety guidance and new safety Multiple injuries to the rest of the body were also documented. The NASC guidance on slips, trips and falls. also identified a decrease in the number of incidents related to trainees. NASC staff will be on hand to NASC managing director, Robin James said: “Once again, the annual NASC discuss membership, auditing, NASC Safety Report has delivered positive numbers for the membership and publications and scaffold inspection provided engaging analysis, which can be used to raise standards and levels training, as well as providing live of safety in the scaffolding and access industry. We will be encouraging demonstrations of the TG20:13 tube members to continue to work towards reducing accident figures.” and fitting technical guidance eGuide. Sharing the stand, the Construction To receive a copy of the 2015 Safety Report contact NASC directly, or view Industry Scaffolders Record Scheme it online at www.nasc.org.uk/safety_reports (CISRS) will demonstrate the latest information on Scaffold Inspection Training (SITS) and CISRS Operative Training scaffolding courses, along with information on changes to Part One, Part Two and Advanced scaffolding courses, following the launch of TG20:13 in February. NASC Managing director, Robin James said: “The confederation is hoping to kick on from successful exhibitions in 2014 at the S&H Expo at ExCeL London, and the Health and Safety North event in Bolton. There is a huge amount of interest in what the organisation is doing, especially in TG20:13. And we expect a similar interest in the 2015 Safety Report, forthcoming SG4:15 safety guidance, and other new and revised publications designed to promote scaffolding best practice. We are looking forward to attracting more Scottish and Northern Irish scaffolding members.” SG4:15 update In addition to the Safety Report, the NASC Health and Safety Committee has asked members to get in touch regarding any aspects they would like considered in the current review of its core health and safety guidance, SG4. Work is underway on the update, SG4:15, scheduled to be launched in the Autumn. New Slips Trips and Falls guidance and other new and revised safety publications is also scheduled to be launched in 2015.

For more details visit: www.cisrs.org.uk or www.nasc.org.uk Or email: [email protected] or [email protected]

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c&a IPAF focus AGM results point to steady growth Outgoing IPAF president Steve Couling and chief executive Tim Whiteman presented the federation’s latest results at its annual general meeting, held on 26th March, in Washington, DC. IPAF’s revenues increased 9.4 percent to £4.65 million in 2014, while its surplus increased by 3.2 percent – which will be re-invested in safety, membership and training activities in line with the aims of the not-for-profit federation. (l-r) IPAF chief executive Tim Membership increased by 6.9 percent, and a record number of 137,429 Whiteman with Steve Couling people were trained by IPAF-approved training centres in 2014. This is an and Andy Studdert increase of 7.9 percent compared with the 127,365 people trained in 2013. Further details are available in the IPAF annual report 2014 available at the ‘publications’ section of: www.ipaf.org IPAF elects Numbers on the up new president The worldwide aerial work Andy Studdert, chairman of USA-based NES Rentals, has been elected platform rental fleet has grown to the new president of IPAF, succeeding Steve Couling, managing director 1,120,000 - an increase of eight of IAPS. Nick Selley, group business development of AFI-Uplift, was percent over the previous year. elected deputy president, while Brad Boehler, president of Skyjack, For more vital facts and figures takes over as vice president. featured in the 2015 IPAF Powered Studdert said: “I would like to thank Steve Couling for his commitment to and Access Rental Market Reports for leadership of IPAF during the past two years. Steve is a difficult act to follow. Europe and the US, visit: His leadership and vision have been remarkable and inspiring. The ongoing www.ipaf.org/reports push to eLearning will be a major theme of IPAF’s activities in the next several years. This new technology will change the learning experience for operators and drive the safety message home in a very positive way. New operating A second major area of focus will be embracing, handling and implementing change. We need to look at what we’ve done in the past and ask ourselves if that is still relevant.” rules adopted Members of the IPAF council have agreed to adopt new operating JLG president rules aimed at placing more autonomy and responsibility with the IPAF A call for Frank Nerenhausen country and regional councils, and refocusing the mandate of the main speaking on smart council on providing the longer term strategy and direction for the smart technology at the federation. IPAF Summit Under the new rules, the main council will comprise the chairpersons of technology the country and regional councils, the chairpersons of the international Imagine a work environment committees, the board members, and five elected members. The new where smart vests can operating rules complement the legal federation rules as registered with the communicate with aerial work UK’s Financial Conduct Authority. The rules take effect immediately and can platforms to warn operators be viewed at the members only section of: www.ipaf.org that their harness/lanyard is not connected to the anchor point. Or a world where a machine equipped with sensors can contribute to collision avoidance Save the date and detection... The Europlatform access rental conference will be held on 8th October in At the IPAF Summit last Copenhagen, Denmark. Watch for details at: www.europlatform.info month, keynote speaker Frank Nerenhausen, president of JLG, showed the audience how wearables, augmented reality and remote operation could be harnessed in a powerful system of prevention and control. At the same time, he also underlined the value of human education and intervention and stressed: ‘Training must continue to play a prominent role as our industry advances’. During the discussion following Nerenhausen’s presentation, IPAF chief executive Tim Whiteman revealed that a new category for innovative UK member event technology would be introduced at the next International Awards for The IPAF UK member event, combining discussions on safety and good Powered Access, which will be held with the IPAF Summit on 17th March practice with networking in a relaxed setting, will be held on 15th October 2016, in Madrid, Spain. Watch for event details at: www.iapa-summit.info 2015. Details at: www.ipaf.org/events

April/May 2015 cranes & access 79 80 cranes & access April/May 2015 BS7121 Part 4 c&a ALLMI focus up for review As nearly five years have passed since the release of BS7121 Part 4: 2010, the British standard for the safe use of lorry loaders, the British Standards Institute is now considering whether any amendments are required. As a result, ALLMI recently engaged with its members and training providers in order to obtain their views on the subject, before submitting a uniform response on behalf of the association. A BSI working group will consider whether any amendments are required on BS7121 Part 4: 2010. AP Training - Further membership growth five years on The past 12 months The ALLMI Appointed Person training course has also reach the five produced another year milestone in 2015. With many hundreds of candidates having excellent result for successfully completed the training since its introduction, the ALLMI in terms of course has had a significant impact on practices within the membership growth, with a good balance lorry loader industry. of new members ALLMI technical director, Alan Johnson, said: “The demand we’ve seeing all of the experienced for the AP training not only reflects the quality of the course association’s divisions and the fact that it’s the only one of its kind available in the UK, but increasing in size. The also the continuing growth in awareness within the wider lorry loader total membership is now close to 200 companies, which consists of manufacturers, service repair businesses, fleet owners and a diverse industry. The revision of BS7121 Part 4 clarified the roles within the lifting affiliate category. team hierarchy and reinforced the need for formal lift planning. Since the launch of that document in 2010, ALLMI’s AP course has been vital ALLMI chief executive Tom Wakefield, said: “One of the key drivers for this in educating fleet owners on this subject and helping them to train the demand is the service that we are able to provide for members. ALLMI relevant members of their workforce to the highest standard available.” membership status also adds a great deal of credibility to any company in the industry, whether in relation to training, crane installations, service and As one of the first candidates to go through the training nearly five years’ repair, or the running of a lorry loader fleet.” ago, Andrew Hollingsworth, group fleet manager for Travis Perkins, will soon be renewing his AP card by undertaking refresher training and One company to recently join the Association is Martin Williams (Hull), assessments. In referring to the training he received and its usefulness a commercial vehicle bodybuilder based in Hull. National sales manager, in his job, he said: “Becoming an ALLMI accredited appointed person Jon Cooper, said: “As a loader crane installer, we know that membership of has been a valuable experience. The standard of the course content ALLMI will assist us in continually developing and improving our already high was excellent, as was the level of instruction, and the expert support I standards, and it will be invaluable in our efforts to keep abreast of technical have received since gaining the qualification has been fantastic. Having and legislative developments.” now had five years’ experience of putting the knowledge acquired into practice, it has become even clearer to me just how important it is to attend an AP course that is totally focused on lorry loaders, and how this can bring significant benefits to lifting operations in terms safety, BS7121 Part 1 update efficiency and professionalism.” The BSI working group, MHE/003/11 has held its third meeting in six The ALLMI Appointed Person course is the UK’s only accredited AP months, in order to make further progress on the revision of BS7121 programme dedicated to lorry loader lifting operations and to be fully Code of Practice for the Safe Use of Cranes - Part 1: General. compliant with the requirements of BS7121 Part 4. The course content The majority of the meeting was spent clarifying parts of the previous draft, was developed by a group of experienced representatives from a variety to ensure uniformity with some of the key changes and additions already of manufacturers, fleet owners and training providers, as well as the made. The latest revision has since been proofed by the British Standards UKCG and HSE. Institute in order to update the cross- referencing to other standards and the next meeting is planned for late April. It is anticipated that a ALLMI’s AP training course draft for public comment was launched will be released shortly five years ago after that meeting.

April/May 2015 cranes & access 81 82 cranes & access April/May 2015 c&a PASMA Working Well Together Throughout 2015 the association will be collaborating with Working Well Together (WWT) - the Health and Safety Executive’s construction industry initiative - which holds Safety and Health Awareness Days on specific topics. The latest event focusing on working at height was held in March at Pontefract Racecourse, West Yorkshire, where PASMA chairman, Chris Blantern, was on hand to discuss the benefits of mobile access towers. Blantern took the opportunity to explain the importance of only buying or renting a tower that conforms to European standard EN 1004. ‘Not on your life!’ - an ongoing PASMA campaign backed by the HSE - warns of the dangers of using incomplete and unsafe tower scaffolds that do not comply with the standard. It follows in the wake of HSE’s growing concern about the number of incidents involving the use of sub-standard, poorly constructed and, in some cases, downright dangerous towers. There are numerous examples of people whose falls PASMA has published could have been prevented by using a safe tower, a free leaflet on the which is why PASMA has published its benefits of EN 1004 ‘Choosing a safe mobile tower’ information leaflet, which is available from: www.pasma.co.uk Maarten de Vries PAS 250: joins PASMA The next step PASMA has appointed Maarten de Vries to PAS 250 is the publicly available specification sponsored by PASMA the newly created post of head of operations, and developed in collaboration with the British Standards Institution communication and innovation. Based in (BSI). It specifies minimum safety and performance criteria for low Glasgow, and reporting directly to managing level work platforms, commonly referred to as podiums or pulpits. director, Peter Bennett, he will be responsible First published in 2012, PASMA has now submitted a business for managing the key projects required to case to BSI for it to be developed into a full British standard. deliver the association’s development plans - both in the UK and overseas - and ensuring Maarten de Vries PAS 250 is important because up until now designs for this type of that members enjoy the highest levels of service and support. equipment had been introduced in the absence of any formal standard. Without specific design criteria it was clear that some products were No stranger to the mobile access tower industry, Maarten was employed inherently unsafe and open to misuse and abuse. The importance that the by PASMA member Turner Access in the late 1990’s where he was directly association attaches to PAS 250 is reflected in the fact that PASMA involved in tower manufacture and the design, development and marketing members must only supply PAS 250 compliant equipment, and starting of new tower products. For the last 12 years he has been a consultant and this year, manufacturing members must have their podiums certified as management trainer and tutor involved in a wide variety of projects. These compliant by a recognised independent inspection body. have ranged from website design to the development of complete back- office applications. The standard covers, amongst other things, strength and stability requirements and material specifications, together with the design A fellow of the Institute of Consulting and a member of the Association requirements for the working platform, side protection, access, mobility, for Project Management, de Vries has considerable experience of project labels and user guides. and programme management. He is also a PRINCE2 and APMP accredited trainer, and a programme tutor for a CMI diploma course in project PASMA technical director Don Aers said: “PAS 250 addresses all these management, and holds an undergraduate certificate in engineering and a issues in a pragmatic, practical way and users should be aware of the risks degree in business computing. they run by specifying non-compliant equipment. It really is the first thing they should check, and that’s why all PASMA members now comply He said: “Designing a successful tower product was already a career with its requirements.” highlight. I’m therefore delighted to be back at the heart and nerve centre of the industry where I look forward to applying my experience for the benefit of PASMA members and the tower sector at large.”

PASMA diary dates For details of PASMA • Safety & Health Expo, 16-18 June, ExCeL, London standards, guidance and • IOSH Conference, 16 June, ExCeL, London training, including free PocketCards and posters, • PASMA AMM, 3 July, Coombe Abbey, Warwickshire www.pasma.co.uk visit: www.pasma.co.uk • HAE Convention, 22-23 September, Loughborough University

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Dear Sir, I was sorry to read the letter, Plea for Help, from the crane driver you Dear Sir, carried in the latest Cranes & Access that arrived today. It is a sad day In spite of the availability of new technology, the theft of plant when hard working people are driven to make a cry for help in such and equipment continues to rise, with around £800 million of a public way and should not be part of a modern mega million pound industry. I did think that it suggested that this was a problem we have equipment taken annually. As a result a group of eight leading in Scotland and not anywhere else in Britain. I have driven cranes for hire companies are now working together to beat plant theft. many Scottish crane hire companies and can honestly say that this has not ever happened to me. I have not heard of it happening to others that A Plant, Brandon Hire, GAP Hire Solutions, HSS, Nationwide I have worked with either. Platforms, Speedy Solutions and VP, recently collaborated But I do know that there are one or two people in the industry that are to discuss ways in which the theft of plant machinery can quite capable of things like this and who have a reputation for this sort be reduced. The majority of equipment theft occurs at of thing. We all know who they are. But this is not a Scottish problem it happens in England too maybe even worse. It would be nice if someone construction sites, rather than at depots. Items such as like the CPA had a phone line to report this sort of thing because a driver mini-excavators regularly go missing from sites, which has in control of a big crane being blackmailed into taking risks of cutting considerable cost implications attached as well as the repair of corners or working beyond safe hour limits is bad for everyone and could kill an innocent person. It could also be good for reporting other unsafe any damage done to access the site. things like doing a crane hire job for companies who have no knowledge The meeting followed the seventh annual Combined Industries of managing a lift. I think that this matter has connections with the letter Theft Solutions (CITS) conference held at JCB headquarters in last month’s magazine from Tim Proud and I am amazed that you did not get some letters from other crane hire owners about that. It’s like the in Rochester, Staffordshire last November. The conference mafia - all silent! pinpointed key steps that the construction and associated Can you please not publish my name - as it could be difficult for me. industries should take to ensure a proactive stance in Name withheld as requested combating the issue, with around 92 percent of construction and hire companies experiencing plant theft from sites across the country. All eight companies attended the CITS I agree with the comment that the letter we published last month ‘A plea for help’ was dreadfully sad and suggests a practice that has no conference and decided to expand upon the original meeting place in a progressive industry like ours. What we don’t know is if by joining forces to share information, ideas and best practice. this case is related to one bad depot manager or a bad company. We should not forget that fact that when reading both letters. ettersThe inaugural meeting was held at GAP Hire Solutions Bullies turn up all over the place and I do not think that the aerial lift Headquarters in Glasgow in February. and lifting industries are any worse or any better than others. However we do still have a tendency for secrecy in some areas - as do the The meeting was a great success and several options to construction and heavy engineering industries - when things go wrong, reduce theft were discussed, including increasing depot and which tends to support and even breed such bullying habits. Compare site security measures. It was also suggested that each of the this to the aviation industry where technical problems, accidents and the like are openly placed and debated in the public domain for all to companies should begin strengthening relationships with local see and learn from, while we attempt to both hide such information, police forces in order to gain better support. Whilst utilising then deny it and ‘strong-arm’ those who are brave or foolhardy enough communicate or publish it. resources such as trade bodies to promote and lobby the issue I do think that industry associations such as IPAF, CPA, ERA, DLR, of plant theft is on the agenda going forward. ARA, EWPA, NASC, HRIA, PASMA, ALLMI etc…etc…. could have a L The next meeting will be held during Vertikal Days at Speedy confidential hot line number for the reporting of abuse and safety issues etc… Perhaps better still they could have a shared service with other Services, headquarters in Haydock this May. similar associations in their regions? It is hard to see what objection a decent and open minded company/member could have against such Mark Anderson, a proposal, as long as the procedure of dealing with such calls was GAP group sound and aimed at resolving or mediating the situation without the fear of prosecution etc… Ed. April/May 2015 cranes & access 87 letters c&a Peter Allison 1925 - 2015 Peter Allison, who was a key part of the Coles Cranes export sales team in the 1960s and again in the 1980s, export sales director for Grove-Coles and Grove, died at the end of March. Readers He was 90. His funeral was held in Bournemouth on Monday April 20th and was attended by more than 25 members of Cobblers, the Coles’ former employees association, of which he was the honorary secretary for the past eight years. A full obituary will be published in the next issue of Cranes & Access.

Stuart Smith 1948 -2015 A lovely guy with a great sense of humour, and an original Mod!! Stuart Smith, the founder and past It’s been a pleasure knowing you Stuart. owner of Peterborough Crane Hire, Peter Burwell has died, following a long battle with Cancer. He was 67. Smith started the original Peterborough A true gentleman and always a pleasure to be in his company. Crane Hire with the purchase of a 25 It was so good to see and spend time with him at Vertikal Days last year. tonne crane, before building up a fleet His warmth made me feel like a long lost brother. of around 20 units over the years. The company ran into difficulties, and after the company ceased Terry Marnock trading in the recent recession, he joined mini crane and crane service specialist JT Cranes. JT Cranes said: “Stuart was well known in the industry as being a true gentleman Stuart was a great man and will be sadly missed by all the crane industry, and will be greatly missed by all that knew him.” The funeral the first time we meet was at Kato in Sweden 1988 and Stuart was was held on April 15th in Peterborough. fantastic on the stage playing his guitar, Dream-Dream, he brought down Dear Sir, the house with applause. Sad day! He will always be in my thoughts. You asked for more information about the late Stuart Smith. Alan Stowell He served his apprenticeship as a plant electrician with Mitchell Construction Kinnear Moodie Group at Wharf Road, Peterborough. It was always a pleasure to meet and talk with Stuart. He would bring stories to life with anecdotes and some pretty good impersonations. His elder brother Trevor also did an apprenticeship with Mitchells One genuine good guy sadly missed. as a plant fitter. Trevor Jepson As was usual at that time Stuart would have gone on electrical breakdowns on all manner of equipment, tower cranes, hoists and Stuart was a such a great man to deal with. batching plants. When Mitchells went bust I am not sure if Stuart stayed The industry has lost one of the best!! on after Tarmac bought parts of the group, but I know that he later worked Darren Jackson for Tarmac in Egypt on the Cairo Waste Water scheme. He also worked for Dowmac Plant & Transport erecting Kroll and Pignon I knew Stuart for over 40 years and he will be greatly missed by so many tower cranes all over the UK. Stuart worked in Saudi Arabia, later moving people whose lives he touched by his kindness, generosity and friendship. to Germany to run the German office, returning, I believe to buy a mobile He really was one of the good guys. A true gentleman. crane and start Peterborough Crane Hire. Robert Nugent From when I first knew him he played electric guitar and was a member of local Peterborough rock bands with his son Nick, playing for many So sad to here Stuart had passed away. local charities and raising thousands of pounds. He was a member of the Always the gentlemen, such a nice man. Peterborough Branch of the CMPE, becoming branch treasurer and branch Tim Ambridge chairman. He sponsored many youth football teams. He was generous with his time and interest. He will be sadly missed. Sad news indeed. Stuart was a Gentleman in every sense of the word, Many others in the industry also left tributes to a man who was clearly a real loss to the Crane industry. liked and widely respected. Here are a few of them: Andrew Foster A true gentleman in every sense of the word, taken too early and will be sadly missed by all who were privileged to know him. Stuart fought an A fantastic man, always had a professional approach to our Industry. illness for many years with little complaint, a brave man indeed. A pleasure to deal with. He will be sadly missed. Rest in peace Stu. David Slack Bill Green

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Powered Access Engineer Versalift, the world market leader in Vehicle Mounted Access Platforms now require a Regional Sales Manager to Premier Platforms is currently recruiting a cover the South of the U.K. Powered Access Engineer for our Cannock Depot Versalift manufacture a broad range of van mounted platforms, including high and low voltage insulated products. We are the Key attributes preferred choice for a broad spectrum of blue chip customers including utility companies, telecoms, local authorities, contractors The successful applicant will have experience within the Powered and hire companies. Access Industry, a good knowledge of Hydraulic systems, The Role Diesel/LPG engines and electric machines and competency in You will be required to manage and develop existing accounts, plus fault finding as the role will include attending breakdowns on site. identify and secure new business throughout the southern region. The successful individual will be self-motivated with the drive and CAP qualification would be beneficial. Must have working ambition to maximize the market potential. knowledge of Genie, Skyjack, JLG and Niftylift scissor & Key skills and experience boom Lifts and have competent IT skills. • Capital sales experience. (Manufacturer preferred, but not essential). • Business development – market growth & territory Responsibilities development experience. • Understanding of government/local authority procurement Routine service, maintenance and repair of access machines, along systems (tendering etc). with PDI and refurbishment as and when required. Liaising with • Access industry experience would be an advantage. customers and representing the company. • Ability to communicate & influence at all levels. • Enthusiastic and self motivated with a willingness to travel. Benefits A competitive remuneration package will be structured around An attractive Salary is available for the experience and skills, combined with sales commission and a company car. Applicants must have a full, U.K. driving licence. right candidate, along with a company The next step vehicle and membership of a Private Suitably qualified and experienced candidates, with the health scheme. enthusiasm & energy to further drive this market-leading brand should submit a letter of application with curriculum vitae to: Andy Bray, Director, Versalift (U.K.) Ltd, Please forward cv: 1 Altendiez Way, Latimer Park, Burton Latimer, Gerry [email protected] Kettering, NN15 5YT or email: Platform House Norton Canes Cannock WS11 9UH Tel: 01543 271443 Fax: 01543 276444 [email protected] RECRUITMENT. • RECRUITMENT • RECRUITMENT RECRUITMENT • RECRUIT MENT RECRUITMENT.

90 cranes & access April/May 2015 RECRUITMENT • RECRUITMENT • RECRUITMENT • RECRUITMENT • RECRUITMENT c&a recruitment RECRUITMENT • RECRUIT MENT RECRUITMENT. • RECRUITMENT Foreman Fitter £27.5k+ pa, depending on experience +VAN Permanent The company: Rapidly growing plant/access platform Rental Company servicing North of England and Midlands based in Sandbach Cheshire. The role: Due to rapid growth over the last 18 months we are seeking to recruit a foreman fitter to be responsible for the day to day man-management of a busy plant/access platform service department. Prioritising service and repair within the branch and mindful of all health and safety requirement. Your background: Preferably 3 years experience within plant/access industry. Ideally in a senior engineer/foreman role. You have a minimum of an IPAF / CSCS qualification/ certification for access platforms, cap tested (loler) on either access platforms/telehandlers/forktrucks would be an advantage. More importantly, a customer focused man manager from the hire /rental industry would be an ideal candidate. To apply, please call us on 01270 757140 or email your CV to [email protected] www.ipforktrucks.co.uk

Field Service Engineer

Skyjack is seeking to employ a Field Service Engineer to provide Service assistance in the South of England. The ideal candidate will reside in the Home Counties, within easy access to London and the South, although travel to other parts of the UK will be required from time to time.

A background in engineering, either apprenticeship or NVQ is required and ideally the candidate should have experience from within the Access Industry.

A good understanding of hydraulic and electrical systems is essential.

Please send CVs to: Tom Moloney Skyjack UK Ltd. Maesbury Road Industrial Estate. Oswestry. SY10 8NN

April/May 2015 cranes & access 91 recruitment c&a RECRUITMENT • RECRUITMENT • RECRUITMENT • RECRUITMENT • RECRUITMENT junior sales executive Mobile Engineer (Powered Access) Circa £30,000 per annum DOE + Van + O/T + On Call + Phone The European master distributor for (Potential earnings £40,000+ per annum) Maeda mini cranes and the UK and Ireland distributor for Bocker aluminium truck Shift pattern: Monday-Friday with variable start and finish times and trailer cranes are looking to employ and weekend working on occasion a junior sales executive to further promote Job Role its sales activities in Wales and the South We are looking for an experienced Engineer to work out of our Erith depot, servicing, repairing and providing a break down West of England. service for our fleet of powered access equipment. Ideally, applicants will reside in the area and previous This challenging position requires someone with experience of knowledge of the crane industry will be an advantage. mechanical, electrical and hydraulic systems on Cherry Pickers, Scissor lifts, Booms, Mobile elevated work platforms and Full ongoing training on both product ranges will be given powered access equipment. to the successful applicant at our Avonmouth premises You will need a flexible approach, logical thinking and good and at our suppliers facilities in Germany and Japan. interpersonal skills whilst liaising with site managers, customers and colleagues to keep the fleet in action. Salary commensurate with experience, commission Key responsibilities structure, company car, laptop, mobile phone. Servicing and repair all types of powered access equipment, This is an opportunity to join a company with a first class attend breakdowns and complete repairs onsite. reputation within the industry and to be rewarded for hard Experience work and achievements. Hydraulic, Electrical and Mechanical systems, LOLER would be an advantage but not essential and an IPAF would be beneficial. Interested applicants to forward their CV with a covering letter by post to:

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Crane Company for Sale Tessenderlo, Belgium Including property, all inventory and stock I am selling my company purely due to my age and having no one to follow me. My company has over 40 years experience in installing and erecting cranes of all kinds We have 40 tower cranes of all sizes in our rental fleet, along with all of the logistics - trucks, material and experienced staff - required to support and service them. We also own an industrial building with 63 acres on a site close to the main highway. Price on request

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