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UK powered access rental firm Nationwide Platforms has expanded its fleet by more than 100 new units in the past two months as part of its 2012 investment programme.

Italian manufacturer Bravi Platforms has delivered a second consignment of Leonardo HD work platforms to Norwegian rental firm Uco.

Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) NV (HCME) shipped the 50000th mini excavator from its assembly location in Oosterhout, The Netherlands in September.

UK rental firm A-Plant is to have a one-day machinery sale of fleet on 5 December 2012.

UK-based construction machinery and industrial equipment auctioneer, Euro Auctions, is expanding into the US with the acquisition of a new auction site in Newnan, near Atlanta, Georgia.

Nationwide Platforms has taken delivery of its latest large truck mounted platform, a 70 m Bronto S70 XDT. This follows the investment in an 84 m Bronto before the summer.

UK rental firm Eve has invested almost £1 million in 70 new lighting towers and delivery services as part of a three-year expansion plan for its recently acquired Brightlights rental division.

Speedy Hire is to double its electric scissor lift fleet with a £4 million investment in Skyjack scissors.

Netherlands based rental company HWS Vehuur has invested in 45 JLG aerial work platforms purchased from Riwal. The purchase consists of a range of machines: scissors and booms including 28m working height telescopic booms.

Ahmed Kanoo, a senior manager from Kanoo Machinery of Saudi Arabia, was visiting the Vertikal Days exhibition as part of a trip to the UK. This was primarily arranged in order for him to see the production facility at Snorkel's Vigo's Centre and view Snorkel's new A62JRT articulated booms.

UK rental firm adds six new JCB JZ140 tracked excavators to its fleet of zero tailswing models

UK access rental giant Nationwide Platforms - part of the Lavendon Group - will be adding nearly 1700 new machines to its fleet by September. The cost of the investment is £23 million (€28.4 million) and a substantial proportion of this investment will go towards replacing 14% of Nationwide Platforms entire fleet by the close of the year.

Deal with Texada expands Chinese equipment manufacturer’s presence in US market

Romanian rental company Industrial Access has added the first JLG self-propelled telescopic boom lift to be made in Romania to its fleet of 800 units.

Russian sales and rental company LTECH-Lifting Technology, is planning to renew its telehandler fleet with machines from the Italian manufacturer Merlo.

UK rental company Generator Power has ordered 10 new Atlas Copco QAC 1250 transportable 1 MW generators.

Streif Baulogistik in Germany has bought a pair of Zoomlion tower cranes and signed up as sales and service agent for Germany and Poland

Yanmar Construction Equipment Europe has taken over retail sales of its products in France from former joint venture partner Amman, although Ammann will continue to sell Yanmar to key accounts and big rental companies in the country.

Easi UpLifts said it has started a “substantial capital investment programme for 2012” and has confirmed orders with JLG and Teupen. Most of the new machines will be based at the company’s UK branches.

UK rental company Fork Rent has ordered 600 JCB loadall telescopic handlers as part of its 2012 expansion programme.