All Appointments Articles

William J. Pulte to stand down after 60 years in the house building business.

IPS, the UK based International supplier of replacement parts and aftersales services has announced a partnership with Spanish company IGS (Icaro Global Solutions).

UK access platform distributor Powerlift was showing an ATN Piaf 810 tracked, vertical mast machine with jib at the Executive Hire Show held in the first week of February. Powerlift added the ATN range of equipment to its offering in January and will sell the complete range, which includes the Piaf machines and the Zebra articulated boom with a scissor range anticipated.

JLG has announced a change to its distribution in Spain: from 1 February JLG Iberica, located in Barcelona, will supply the Spanish market directly with access equipment, telehandlers, parts, financing, training and service.

Harsco Infrastructure has appointed Paul O'Kelly as regional managing director for Europe. Mr O'Kelly will be responsible for Harsco's access and formwork businesses in Europe that previously operated under the SGB and Huennebeck names.

Grindex has appointed Joakim Cronstrand as its managing director, replacing Peter Schmidt, who is now manager of the dewatering business unit at ITT Water & Wastewater, Grindex’s sister company within ITT.

François Desbriere has taken over as powered access manager at Manitou, replacing previous access manager Christian Lajous who has moved to head up Manitou’s pricing department.

Palfinger appoints Cory Hanlon as its new sales manager for the company's Crayler truck-mounted forklifts.

Kishore Sidhwani has been appointed vice president of Chicago Pneumatic Construction Equipment. He is currently general manager of Atlas Copco’s Construction & Mining Technique Customer Centre in India and will start his new job on 1 February, located in Nacka, near Stockholm, Sweden.

Imer's distributor for The Netherlands and Belgium market, Kemp, has already taken delivery of over €750000 worth of the Iteco range of products - the company was appointed to distribute the range in December last year.

Former Loxam executive Carole Cossu has joined Wynne Systems as business development manager for Europe.

Italian vehicle-mount specialist, Isoli has enjoyed a record year in France with its dealer Time France.

CEO joins Supervisory Board following changes in shareholder structure.

Caterpillar's Gwenne Henricks has been appointed to the UK's recently formed Automotive Council.

Ex-Aggreko executive Hendrik Jan Molenaar has joined Netherlands rental company Workx as its new chief executive officer.

With around 25 years experience in access rentals Steve Shaughnessy has just completed his first week as president of Canadian manufacturer, Skyjack.

Starke Material Handling Group has been launched by Canadian Forklift Distributors Limited

IPS, a UK based International supplier of replacement parts and after-sales services has appointed Matthew Ashby as senior account manager for its UK parts division.

Hubertus Marx, who led the development of Liebherr’s Mietpartner rental business for 12 years, retired at the end of 2009 after a 47 year career in the construction equipment and rental industry.

The Brazilian equipment rental association ALEC has chosen Mr Durval Gasparetti Cunha as its new president. Mr Gasparetti, who runs Rental Leasing Servy e Comércio Ltda (Rental Servy) business in Sao Paulo, will hold the post for two years. Mr Gasparetti takes over from previous president, Expedito Eloel Arena.