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Germany and Austria-based Zeppelin Rental has ordered 100 Leonardo HD vertical masts from Italian manufacturer

Swedish lift manufacturer Alimak Hek has installed a permanent refurbished lift at the 40m landmark sculpture at Danes Yard, part of the Strand East site close to the Olympic Park in London.

The Chinese manufacturer of aerial work platforms, Mantall has announced that it will be exhibiting for the first time at Bauma China in November and will be showing two new product lines.

Alimak Hek has installed an SE-T 630 temporary passenger lift to provide access to the Room for London exhibit.

With such a varied range of general and specialist applications, it is left to the customer to decide which vertical mast solution he will choose.

JLG has sold its 1000th Toucan 10E vertical mast lift since its introduction in 2009.

Former Alimak Hek and Hek Manufacturing executive Ernst van Hek has established a new company called Van Hek & Partner to sell a variety of powered access machines in Austria and eastern Europe.

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.

At ConExpo Italian vertical mast specialist, Bravi was showing a prototype for a new board carrier device which can be adapted to the Bravi Lite or the Leonardo machines.

After expanding its LiftPod line of aerial work platforms in early 2011, JLG Industries, Inc., is taking the family or low-level access lifts on a demo tour across the US.

Low-level and lightweight pieces of access equipment will be well represented at ConExpo this year. Although used in construction for activities such as mechanical and electrical fitting and heating and ventilation installation, low-level access crosses into other areas such as facilities management, cleaning, maintenance and painting, which provides rental companies with a wider potential customer base.

Terex Aerial Work Platforms (AWP) is showing new Genie aerial work platform products at ConExpo.

JLG Industries, Inc., has added the new personal and portable FS60 to its LiftPod line of aerial work platforms. The FS60 has a smaller base than JLG's other LiftPods and it is ANSI A92.3-2006/CSA B354.1-04 compliant.

Terex Aerial Work Platforms (AWP) is introducing new Genie aerial work platform products at The Rental Show (Feb. 28-March 2) and ConExpo (March 22-26), both in Las Vegas.

JLG Industries has re-launched its Toucan E26MJ vertical mast lift in North America as the Toucan T26E, featuring a direct electric drive.

From tree-trimming to low-noise, inner-city jobs, certain machines are made for certain work. ALH editor Lindsey Anderson asks manufacturers to highlight some niche opportunities for rental companies.

UpRight's new "personal access" range attracted a lot of interest at its distributor conference held in Dubai. The range includes push around scissor lifts; push around vertical mast lifts; self propelled mast lifts and self propelled scissors. [AI was able to report on the machines in September at a sneak preview at the company's UK headquarters .]

Terex Aerial Work Platforms (AWP) has introduced its new Genie QuickStock lift

UpRight Powered Access is launching a wide range of low-level access platforms, including three push-around scissors, a new low cost version of the UL lifts, and an 8 m self-propelled model to complement the well established TM 12.

UK tool and equipment hire company Speedy has invested £600000 in low level access products.