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Spain's Saltec has developed a special compact mast climbing work platforms for use in narrow streets in Japan. Murray Pollok reports.

Spain's Saltec has developed a special compact mast climbing work platforms for Japanese rental company Nihon Kasetsu.

The Robert A. Young building in St. Louis, MO is the first project in the US designated '100 percent International Powered Access Federation.'

Lindsey Anderson takes the temperature of the mast climber market across North America

Klimer president Jay Gordon talks to Euan Youdale about some of the projects that have influenced its new designs

Canadian mast climbing manufacturer Fraco Products faced a difficult challenge installing masts on a tilted dam face.

Canadian mast climber manufacturer Fraco Products has won a contract valued at more than US$7 million to supply as many as 74 mast climbing work platforms to subcontractors working on the massive Barwa Commercial Avenue mega project in Doha, Qatar.

Canadian mast climbing manufacturer Hydro Mobile has restructured under new owner, Quebec-based AGF Group.

The International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) has created a new video for mobile elevating work platform (MEWP) operators.

The renovation of the Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche) in Munich is estimated to be costing €500000. To get the workforce up the scaffold-clad North Tower quickly and safely Geda has installed a Multilift P18 Comfort, passenger and material hoist.

Fraco's new Transporter had head's turning at World of Concrete, held at the Las Vegas Convention Center Feb. 3-6, 2009.

IPAF's International Mast Climbing Work Platform Committee chairman has opened communication with OSHA's Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health with a safety presentation.

The new light- and medium-duty mast climber from Hydro Mobile will be on display at the 2009 World of Concrete show.

"Ground breaking" is how Mastclimbers LLC describes the access system it designed as part of extension work at the Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. There is literally no room at the base of the structure, so Mastclimbers mounted its supplied masts on bolted fabrications of steel beams on the fifth floor.

Premiered at last week's CTT Show in Moscow (June 17 - 21) was Italian manufacturer Safi's new Universo, a combination mast climber work platform (MCWP) and a hoist for people and materials, all of which use a common mast.

The cascading roof, multiple recesses and corners on the Centuria Urban Village development in Kelowna, British Columbia, created a number of access challenges for contractor Fairweather Maltesen Masonry. The company was able to overcome many of these difficulties by using Canadian company, Hydro Mobile, mast climbers.

Gulf Lifting Rental Co LLC has signed an agreement with Canadian mast climbing manufacturer, Hydro Mobile, to distribute its equipment in the United Arab Emirates.

Throughout the construction of the world's largest observation wheel an Alimak hoist carried engineers to the hub of the wheel where essential cables and wiring were being installed.

As you might expect in a region of extensive and fast economic growth, adoption of mast climbers and hoists in the United Arab Emirates has been diverse, writes Patrick Hill.

Even a slow start and an end-of-the-week fire couldn't stop another busy World of Concrete. John Wyatt reports on the hoists and mast climbers at the event.