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Chicagoland's rental house Metrolift has appointed Danielle Kendall and Chris Brown to its staff.

PAC (Powered Access Certification) the UK, company specialising in machine certification and technical advice has a new technical officer, David Johns B.Sc.

Armin Rappen has been appointed to the executive board of Mateco AG. Mr Rappen will join the board from 1 March 2009 and will assume some of the responsibilities of the chairman Wolfgang Roth: including: sales, marketing, technology and purchasing.

Andreas Schwer has been appointed senior vice president of global engineering and innovation at Manitowoc Cranes

Mark Scutt, formerly of Access Rentals, has recently joined Loxam Access as the branch manager of the company's UK London East branch. Mr Scutt has worked in the access industry for many years.

Axel Leijonhufvud has been appointed senior vice president, product supply, at Cargotec. He is now a member of the executive board and reports to Mikael Mäkinen, president and CEO

Peter Jones, head of UK Group technical services is set to leave Lavendon at the end of the year to pursue an independent career in engineering and operational management consultancy.

Rico Trapletti has joined Schuler & Schloemmer, UpRight's distributor in Switzerland, which is expanding its operations in response to major changes to the aerial lift market. Previously, Swiss law allowed working at heights over 3.5m to be carried out using baskets on fork lift trucks. All of this type of work must now be carried out using access equipment.

Christian Caleca has joined Manitou as chief operations officer, a new position. Mr Caleca now leads the company's industrial, domestic and international commercial, purchasing and logistics, and quality departments, as well as its research and development activities.

Don Hatch will be responsible for Spider's Midwestern clients.

RSC Equipment Rental has promoted Gordon McDonald to vice president of managed services, in charge of RSC’s ‘Total Control’ equipment management software. He was previously director of managed services.

IPAF (The International Powered Access Federation) has appointed Pascal Deher as its new representative in France with immediate effect.

David Smith has been promoted to vice president, operations, for Snorkel International.

UK company Enigma Vehicle Systems PLC, has appointed David White sales manager for the UK and Ireland. Mr White has 15 years experience in the industry and has joined the company from Trafficmaster, where he was dealer account manager. His appointment is part of a rapid expansion at Enigma where staff numbers have doubled in the last year to meet customer demand.

David Brotherton has been appointed product manager for the Genie articulating boom product line at Genie Industries. He will report to Alan Lofurno, global general manager, aerial boom product line.

David Brotherton takes the company's post of articulating boom product manager.

Stu Cohen and Santi Araya has been appointed to Instant UpRight’s sales team.

Trojan Battery Co. has announced a new COO and vice president of Renewable Energy and New Business Development.

Alan Dotts has been appointed to the new position of manager of aerial work platform specialist for Toyota Material Handling, U.S.A., the sole distributor of Aichi Aerial Work Platforms.

Chicagoland rental house appoints two new people to its staff.