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Organisers of the Intermat Middle East exhibition report growing support for the fledgling show in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Riwal chief executive officer Norty Turner will be the keynote speaker at the Europlatform conference taking place in Edinburgh, UK, on Thursday 20 September this year.

Kiloutou won the large rental company of the year award at the European Rental Awards ceremony in Oslo organised by International Rental News (IRN) magazine and the European Rental Association (ERA).

Coates Hire chief executive officer Leigh Ainsworth said winning the Australian rental company of the year award at last week’s Hire and Rental Industry Association (HRIA) convention was welcome recognition for all that the company had achieved since the merger with National Hire.

Niftylift's HR17 Hybrid has won The Best New Product of The Year Award from the Hire & Rental Industry Association (HRIA) of Australia. The HRIA is the official industry association for hire and rental companies in Australia and membership covers all areas of the rental industry.

Last year was the worst ever for accidents in the wind turbine erection and maintenance business, prompting a major safety conference last month. Alex Dahm reports

Supporting the investment it has made in South America over recent years JLG is exhibiting at the M&T Expo held in San Paolo Brazil 29 May - 2 June. Tim Morris, JLG's senior vice president of sales, market development and customer support-Americas said that over the past two of years JLG had doubled its workforce and now carries more than $3 million worth of parts inventory in its enhanced aftermarket facility.

A glittering event attended by nearly four hundred leading crane and transport industry people on the night of 19 April saw the announcement and presentation of the 2012 ESTA Awards

On 15 April 2012, the managing director of Pop-Up Products, Nigel Woodger, will be running the Paris Marathon to raise money for Beating Bowel Cancer and St Luke's Cheshire Hospice in the UK.

Member of Great Britain's royal family His Royal Highness, Prince Andrew, The Duke of York visited the headquarters of Niftylift Ltd.

This year's IPAF President's Award went to Cees van der Kooij, former chief operating officer of Loxam in the Netherlands and former chairman of the IPAF Netherlands Country Council. This was announced at the IPAF Annual General Meeting held on 29 March 2012 in Rome, Italy.

More than 600 attended the Berlin Demolition Conference organised by the Deutscher Abbruchverband

In 2000 Cargotec invited Dutch artist Herman Brood to paint a Hiab loader crane at the RAI commercial vehicle exhibition in Amsterdam. That crane will be auctioned for charity at this year's show

Accidents in the workplace are dreaded but all companies should have a strategy to deal with such events

The International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) is forecasting annual growth of 40% in the Brazilian access rental fleet for the next five years.

Next year’s IAPA awards and IPAF Summit will be held in Miami, Florida on Tuesday, 26 March, 2013 – the first time the event has been held outside Europe and the first time in North America.

Over 200 delegates at the IPAF Summit in Rome, Italy, heard NES Rentals chief executive officer Andy Studdert argue that the aerial platform industry needs to adopt a safety culture similar to that of aviation.

Brazilian rental company Mills Rentals was the winner of Rental Company of the Year at this year's International Powered Access Awards (IAPAs). 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 lower ‘early bird’ booking rates for the European Rental Association’s annual convention in Oslo, Norway on 15 and 16 May, ends on 31 March.

Teupen Maschinenbau will be launching a new model, updating the Leo 13GT and integrating its FuzzyIV control in the Leo30T and Leo36T at Intermat.