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Skyjack debut for Hong Kong hospital
Skyjack is helping to build Hong Kong’s first public children’s hospital along with several other notable construction projects. It is also the first time a SJ63 AJ boom has worked in Hong Kong
DIY solution from PartnerLift's Kuhnle
Kuhnle has provided truck mounts through the PartnerLift organisation in Germany to protect a 15-store DIY chain from damage caused by pigeons
LiuGong appoints new president
Chinese multinational construction machinery manufacturing company appoints Huang Haibo as new president
Chainsaw carving for charity
Facelift Access Hire is auctioning an intricate 3m wood carving, created at height from a trailer mount by chainsaw, for charity
Festive lifting from 4 Hire
This year's Christmas lights in St Helier, Jersey, went up in record time this year thanks to 4 Hire and its Haulotte HA16 RTJ Pro
AFI at high speed
Two booms were hired by Littlehampton Welding to erect and dismantle a 40 m sculpture at the UK's Goodwood Festival of Speed
EIB’s Swedish infrastructure plan
€200 million funding for infrastructure in Uppsalsa amid proposals for wider €315 billion European Investment Plan
Land sold for €2.5 billion Paramount Park
Construction tenders due this year for major UK theme park attraction
Turkish hospital secured with EBRD financing
Project worth €542 million set to kick-start national medical building programme
Mills makes quick work in Sao Paulo
The rental company supplied a mast climbing solution to Santander Theatre in Marginal Pinheiros, part of the Vila Olimpia district of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Uplifting the Kelpies
Easi UpLifts, one of the largest rental companies in the UK and Ireland, provided eight Genie articulating and telescopic booms to help build The Kelpies, a two headed horse sculpture in Scotland
UK outlines €451 billion infrastructure plan
Construction industry claims it may look good on paper, but this spending plan must deliver
Ommelift enables bumper fir cone harvest
The first 37 m crawler lift sold in Denmark has solved a unique working at height challenge: harvesting 20000 litres of seed cones in just a fortnight, from six acres of giant fir trees.
Facelift in festive film
UK rental company has a played a part in supermarket chain Sainsburys’ 2013 Christmas television advertising.
Gerken on call with Ruthmann T 720
German rental giant Gerken has been using its new 72 m Ruthmann Steiger T 720 truck mount to help upgrade the country’s mobile phone mast network
Snorkel shopping in Uruguay
Uruguay-based EBITAL rented eight Snorkel TL37J trailer-mounted booms for the construction of a mall, before purchasing four of them.
UK construction output falls again
May 2012’s output was 6.3% lower than last year, with sharp falls in public housing and infrastructure output
Congress approves US Highway Funding Bill
“Long overdue” US$ 105 billion legislation will provide two years of market certainty
Growing support for Intermat Middle East
Organisers of the Intermat Middle East exhibition report growing support for the fledgling show in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Speedy opens depot at massive Cairo project
Speedy has established an on-site rental depot at the massive Cairo Festival City development in Cairo, Egypt. It is the UK rental company’s first major contract in North Africa.
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