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Australian rental company Lincon Hire has ordered eight Jumbo platforms from Palfinger Platform, including four models over 60 m.

UK based Mr Plant Hire has increased its fleet of powered access products with a number of Skyjack electric scissor lifts. The company says this is to meet the growing demand from its London and south eastern area customer base.

Germany-based international crane rental house Neeb & Schuch has added a new 500 tonne capacity Liebherr wheeled mobile crane to its fleet as part of its global expansion programme

Eircom, Ireland's largest telecommunications provider, has just taken delivery of 34 Skyking S125RA van mounted access platforms with specially-modified Fiat Ducatos for use by its technical crews around Ireland.

Sir Anthony Bamford, chairman of JCB, and Kevin Parkes, chief executive of Hewden (sitting in the cab), met recently at JCB’s headquarters in the UK to mark the completion of the 400th new JCB machine for Hewden as part of the rental company’s £21 million investment in equipment this year.

Charles Wilson Engineers (CW Plant) has ordered 100 generating sets from FG Wilson (Engineering) Ltd.

Speedy Hire, one of the UK's largest general rental companies has ordered 250 machines from Skyjack. The order comprises the SJ3219 compact scissors and the SJ12 vertical mast machine with traversing deck.

Austrian access and crane rental specialist Prangl has ordered 115 machines from French telehandler and access platform manufacturer Manitou.

UK access rental specialist Lifterz Ltd, based in Yorkshire has placed orders for about 80 new platforms to provide additional fleet for its new depot opening in Haydock, Lancashire. Orders have been placed with Skyjack, Snorkel, Holland Lift, Niftylift and Iteco

UK access rental specialist Lifterz Ltd, based in Yorkshire has placed orders for about 80 new platforms to provide additional fleet for its new depot opening in Haydock, Lancashire. Orders have been placed with Skyjack, Snorkel, Holland Lift, Niftylift and Iteco

A-Plant has ordered 100 VT-1 Eco lighting towers from TowerLight UK Ltd.

Linden Comansa and German rental company BKL Baukran Logistik have signed an agreement where BKL becomes the distributor in Germany for the Spanish tower crane manufacturer

Cramo’s German business, Theisen Baumaschinen, has bought 32 new wheeled and crawler excavators from Doosan Infracore Construction Equipment.

UK rental company Charles Wilson Engineers (CW Plant) has ordered ten generator sets from SDMO Energy Ltd, the UK subsidiary of SDMO Industries.

Haulmark Equipment appointed sole UK dealer for the Xcentric Ripper attachment

UK access rental company AFI-Uplift is investing more than £5 million in new platforms, adding 500 new machines and expanding the fleet by over 400 units. AFI’s total fleet size is now more than 3300 units.

Speedy Hire’s revenues for the three months to 30 June were 2.2% lower than the same quarter in 2010, with an 8.8% improvement in rental prices offset by a 5.8% fall in volumes.

Nottingham, UK-based North Midland Construction has ordered a new 70 tonne capacity Link-Belt telescopic boom crawler crane

CGT Edilizia Spa, an Italian Caterpillar dealer for the compact machinery line and one of Italy's leading sales and rental companies for construction equipment has added 10 of Socage's DA320 20m working height truck mounted platforms to its fleet.

Barin has sold a specialist underbridge inspection unit to German rental company Wemo-Tec GmbH. The new machine, the AB19/SDL, has a special set up sequence that ensures no part of the machine comes into contact with electric lines running under the bridge deck.