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  • Manitou in friendly tender for Gehl shares

    Today (September 8 2008) French material handling and access equipment manufacturer, Manitou, has launched a friendly public tender for all the outstanding shares of Gehl common stock ...more

     

  • More reductions at JLG

    JLG Industries decided in the last week of August to make additional layoffs of its North American production workforce. Access International just recently learned of the reductions. ...more

     

  • Hertz enters China

    Hertz Equipment Rental set up subsidiary Hertz Equipment Rental China and began operations in July in Shanghai. The move, according to the US-based company, makes it "the first...global equipment rent ...more

     

  • GAM to open up in Mexico and Brazil

    Spanish rental company GAM is to establish rental businesses in Mexico this month and in Brazil before the end of the year. The new openings are part of the internationalization strategy that has alre ...more

     

  • Platform Sales Europe grows sales offerings and staff

    Distributor and trading company Platform Sales Europe will offer the full range of scissor lift specialist Holland Lift in all 20 countries it operates, Arjan Roelse told AI. Platform Sales has ordere ...more

     

Equipment News

  • Link-Belt expansion

    Link-Belt has opened its expanded production facilities in Lexington, Kentucky, USA ...more

  • Around the sale

    Auctioneer Ritchie Bros had unprecedented interest in its recent equipment auction in Queensland, Australia. Brent Stacey reports from the event where he talked to the major players. ...more

  • Indian site for Pegson and Powerscreen

    Hosur in India is to be the site for a new Terex Pegson and Powerscreen manufacturing plant. Located 75 km from Bangalore near Chennai, the plant is to be the first part of what is planned as a campus ...more

  • Gardner Denver buys compressor maker CompAir

    US compressor and vacuum products manufacturer Gardner Denver Inc has acquired UK compressor manufacturer CompAir for US$395 million in cash and assumed debt. The acquisition, announced on 21 July, wi ...more

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