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The company using written-off Tesla batteries to power construction sites
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Allye Energy’s Alistair McNeil on using repurposed Tesla batteries to make battery energy storage systems which can power construction sites
Case bets on electrification, autonomy and rental expansion to navigate market headwinds
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Fabrizio Cepollina, head of construction equipment for EMEA, CASE Construction, talks autonomy, electrification, and why preference is shifting towards rental.
Webs of opportunity: why access manufacturers are focusing on spiders
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A round up of the latest developments in the spiderlift market
Trump admin shifts stance, backs union labour pacts for federal construction with exceptions
In a reversal, the Trump admin now supports the use of PLAs on federal projects, with exceptions
Working at Height conference speakers confirmed
Sunstate’s Norty Turner heads line-up for Nashville event, October 15-16
Oshkosh highlights industrial technology strategy at Investor Day
JLG leads construction-sector innovations for Oshkosh Corporation’s 2025 Investor Day
IPAF launches industry fundraiser with cancer charity
PAINT scheme sees percentage of rental donated to Weston Park Cancer Charity
Five things we learned from Renta Group’s sustainability report
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Renta Group publishes latest sustainability report
Going local: JLG president on how tariffs are speeding up regional production plans
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JLG president Mahesh Narang on the challenges of 2025
US construction safety in limbo as Trump admin shutters federal agency
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The Trump administration is dissolving a 54-year-old health and safety agency
Caterpillar adds collision warning, payload options to medium wheeled loaders
World’s largest OEM releases collision warning, payload options for wheeled loaders
EquipmentShare expands apprenticeships programme
Commercial driver training now offered in three States
IPAF launches new training options for N. America
Two new MEWP training solutions aim to offer cost-effective and scalable MEWP certification
Norty Turner to keynote Working at Height Conference
Sunstate Equipment President and CEO to kick off 2nd annual Working at Height Conference & Awards in October
New IPAF campaign focuses on overturns
The Stop Overturns – Safety Starts on the Ground campaign has been informed by IPAF’s global Accident Reporting Portal
The quiet hunt for non-compliant construction equipment at Bauma
CECE takes part in VDMA task force on the lookout for non-compliant machines and equipment
L Lynch plant hire fined £80,000 over abnormal load notification
L Lynch fine by police for incorrect abnormal load notification
Boels survey highlights safety concerns in construction
Quarter of respondents skeptical about eliminating fatalities 
Which rental jobs carry the greatest risk of injury?
People working these rental jobs experience the most accidents. What are they? 
‘MEWP safety changes take too long’, says Loxam’s Paul Rankin
IPAF Summit hears plea from MEWP rental executive
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