Winners of 2012 IAPAs announced in Rome
Brazilian rental company Mills Rentals was the winner of Rental Company of the Year at this year's International Powered Access Awards.
Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to Gerhard Hillebrand, IPAF's Italian representative and, posthumously, to Lars-Petter Godenhielm who was a past president of IPAF and managing director of Dinolift.
The award ceremony took place on 29 March at the Sheraton Hotel in Rome, Italy and was attended by over 400 industry professionals from all over the world including Europe, North and South America, Russia and the Far East.
Other winners included Alimak Hek for the Access Project of the Year on the Garibaldi Porta Nuova project in Milan and Nationwide Platforms for Contribution to Safe Working at Height.
The four Product of the Year categories were won by Manitou for the 280TJ telescopic boom; Edmolift for the Air; Ruthmann for theT330 truck mount and Geda for the Multilift P18S hoist.
The IPAF Safety Champion Austin Baker of AFI-Uplift, while the award for After Sales Service was won by TVH.
The IAPAs are jointly organised by Access International and IPAF. Headline sponsor for the awards was Italian manufacturer Co.Me.T Officine; supporting sponsors were Henderson Insurance, Hinowa and Platform Basket while Genie sponsored IPAF Training Instructor of the Year and JLG sponsored the IPAF Safety Champion of the Year.
The IAPA awards also include two awards targeted at IPAF members only.
In these categories, the winners were Kevin O'Shea of Mastclimbers LLC (IPAF Training Instructor of the Year), and Spanish company Maquinarias Paco (Best New IPAF Training Centre).
The new award for Access Photograph of the Year was won by Uwe Schneider of German rental company Mateco for a shot of one of the company's Teupen XTG 230s cleaning the glass roof of the Medical Association building in Hanover, Germany. The work is being carried out by Hayko May Cleaning Company, based in Einbeck Germany.
The event is jointly organized by Access International and the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) and will take place on the evening of the IPAF Summit conference.
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