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Online auctioneer IronPlanet has been growing dramatically over the past 18 months. Tom Cornell, the company’s managing director for Europe, tells Murray Pollok why the online model works.

The German rental market for Alimak Hek's mast climbing equipment is growing against a backdrop of construction downturn in the country, said Frank Klessens in an exclusive interview with Access International.

The policy of Bravi UK is to listen to potential users of access machines and help them improve profits. Maria Hadlow talked to Andrew Fishburn and Stuart Honeywood about their long term approach to access sales.

Chinese aerial platform manufacturer Zhejiang Dingli Machinery Co is building a new 46000 m2 facility to produce an extended range of large self propelled booms, targeted mainly at the Chinese market. The RMB20 million (€2.06 million) investment is part of a strategy to refocus on domestic sales in response to a decline in Dingli's traditional export markets, including Europe.

LiuGong Machinery Corp. is to open a Latin American headquarters in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Current market conditions may not make it an enviable time to take over the presidency of a trade association, but new NFDC president David Darsey is firm over the direction in which he is hoping to steer the Federation

United Rental's CEO Michael Kneeland talks to Murray Pollok about managing United through the recession.

IRN Editor Murray Pollok interviewed Loxam managing director Gérard Déprez during the Intermat exhibition in Paris.

Olof Persson, the president and chief executive of Volvo Construction Equipment says the company is focusing on developing new technologies, despite the difficult market conditions.

JCB Inc's chief executive officer defines business units and announces new telehandler model

In the depths of the worldwide credit crisis and its insidious knock on events there have been a few regions which we have held up like shining beacons of hope: China, South America, Eastern Europe and, the most glittering of all, the Middle East.

Holland Lift is about as far as you can imagine from the world of the major manufacturers - in machines, in manufacturing and in outlook - and that's the way that Menno Koel likes it.

Terex is to roll out a new structured product identification and process development system in the next two weeks to bring new equipment to market quicker and more efficiently.

What will Manitou do with its newly acquired Gehl business? Murray Pollok asked Manitou’s Bruno Fille to explain the strategy.

Iceland has been one the countries hardest hit by the credit crisis. Access International, Jon Geir Sigurbjornsson updates us on the market and the progress of his company, set up to support the country's equipment suppliers.

It is one of the scaffolding industry's biggest success stories of the last decade: how a Chinese MBA student built one of the biggest sellers of scaffolding in North America. And now, Wei Chen, the 37 year-old founder of Sunshine Enterprise, has his sights set on Europe.

Jon Geir Sigurbjörnsson believes that he was responsible for bringing the first new scissor lift into Iceland: his father had been importing second hand machines but Mr Sigurbjörnsson encouraged him to buy new.

Web Exclusive: Korean AWP manufacturer, Junjincsm, plans to use the expertise gained in the shipbuilding industry to expand into other markets.