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The conference programme for the Demolition Summit is now up on the event website

A delegation from Hire Association Europe (HAE) has held discussions with a group of Westminster MPs as part of a series of HAE events aimed at promoting the hire sector in the UK.

The closing date for entries for the inaugural annual Demolition Awards is drawing near

A pair of new Grove wheeled mobile telescopic cranes have been launched to the UK market.

Mammoet CEO Roderik van Seumeren is the latest top industry figure to agree to speak at the World Crane and Transport Summit in the Netherlands later this year

Kobelco Cranes officially opened its new administration, parts and service centre in Almere, the Netherlands on Friday, 19 June

System Lift, the German rental partnership organisation, held its first in-house fair at the Wuerzburg premises of one of its members. Ziegler was celebrating ten years in business and Partner Lift felt the two events were complementary.

The new Italian lifting exhibition, GIS (Giornate Italiane del Sollevamento) was held for the first time on 11, 12 and 13 June at Piacenzo Expo. Visitors found plenty to interest them from compact truck mounts and crawler cranes on show for the first time to two of the largest truck mounts in Italy from Bronto and Palfinger Platforms.

The website for the Demolition Summit in Amsterdam on 5 - 6 November is now online

Tim Ford, president of Terex AWP, will give the keynote address at the Europlatform access rental conference in Milan, Italy, on 15 September.

The 2009 Scaffold Industry Association Annual Conference and Exposition will feature three keynote speakers.

The European Rental Awards were held at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, UK, on 26 May as part of the European Rental Association's annual Convention.

Companies associated with access did well at the IRN/ERA rental awards: Sweden's Lipac Liftar won the Small Rental Company of the Year category; Haulotte Group won Rental Product of the Year for its H28TJ+ boom and Gruppo Venpa3's CEO Mendes Migotto became Rental Person of the Year.

UK access specialist Ranger has chosen the Vertikal Days show to reveal its new marketing strategy; unveil its latest distribution deal with PB Liftechnik and show new equipment from its established suppliers.

The Demolition Summit will take place on November 6 this year at the Hotel Okura, Amsterdam,

HSS Hire won the tool, equipment and plant hire company of the year award in the Hire Association Europe (HAE)/Event Hire Association (EHA) annual UK and Ireland awards. It also won awards for the best website and for its contribution to environmental issues.

Aggreko won the Large Rental Company of the Year award at the IRN/ERA rental awards dinner in Manchester, UK, on Tuesday, with Sweden’s Lipac Liftar winning the Small Rental Company of the Year category.

Several top speakers have already been confirmed for the Europlatform access rental conference in Milan on 15 September.

At the beginning of April, Access International, in partnership with IPAF (International Powered Access Federation), staged the first IAPAs (International Awards for Powered Access) Awards.