Volume Twenty Four I Issue Five I August-September 2017 A KHL Group publication I www.khl.com/ai The world’s largest access equipment rental companies Official magazine of IPAF INTERVIEWS: CHINA | APEX ASIA PREVIEW | ONSITE IN INDIA | SCISSORS Access 08-09 2017 Cover.indd 1 21/08/2017 09:09:00 SJ85AJ LAUNCH READY! CLASS LEADING 85’ (25.91 m) PLATFORM HEIGHT DUAL CAPACITY RATING OF 750/500LBS (227/340 kg) 34’ (10.36 m) UP AND OVER CLEARANCE Launching the newest addition to its growing boom lineup, the SJ85AJ Articulating Boom fills out Skyjack’s offering in the core 40’, 60’ and 80’ boom classes. Like all Skyjack booms, the new SJ85AJ is engineered with simple reliability in mind. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT WWW.SKYJACK.COM IRN MAR 2017 indd 1 2017-01-30 10:08 AM Untitled-1 1 22/08/2017 08:19:46 commentFROM THE EDITOR Volume 24 ■ Issue 5 August-September 2017 STAFF LIST Changing gears Editor Euan Youdale e-mail:
[email protected] t has been a year of change in the world of access and, as I write, we Staff Writers are still well within the third quarter, meaning there is still plenty Many Chinese Lindsey Anderson, Alex Dahm, I of time for more major industry news to develop. Steve Ducker, Sandy Guthrie, In this issue of AI we have the access50 listing of the world’s manufacturers Mike Hayes, Joe Malone, “ biggest rental companies, ranked by fl eet size, which very much refl ects Cristián Peters, D.Ann Shiffl er Consultant these changes.