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Toyota Material Handling USA, Inc. has expanded its Aichi dealerships from 15 to 26.

Have you considered buying Chinese construction equipment? Perhaps now is a good time to think about it. Murray Pollok reports from China where he visited five local manufacturers.

IRN takes a look at some of the more recent lighting tower launches, including models from Light Engineering, Tower Light, Birchwood, SMC, Doosan Portable Power, Terex AWP, SDMO and JCB.

German portable accommodation rental company ELA-Container said it hopes to establish rental operations in Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Russia “as soon as possible”.

Aggreko said it expects profits levels in 2009 to be slightly higher than in 2008 thanks to cost cutting measures and continued growth in its international power projects business. Its local businesses continue to fall compared to last year, but Aggreko said it did not expect these to get any worse.

Skylift's Mini-Derrick Super 5000 packs a 3,000-pound material handling capacity.

John Milne faces 27 months in jail after pleading guilty to false accounting.

JCB's new Loadall 515-40 Miniscopic telehandler is just 1.8 m high, but it is, said Rob White JCB's product marketing manager, "Power to weight the strongest telehandler JCB makes." The Minscopic weighs 3480 kg (7672 lb) and can lift 1.5 t at full height of over 4m (13 ft 3 in).

Temporary structures and events rental company De Boer has appointed Edward Gallagher, a former local government manager in east London, to lead the company’s efforts to win contracts on the London 2012 Olympics.

A-Plant has invested in 270 hand-held computers for delivery drivers that are helping the company demonstrate to major customers that it is meeting agreed levels of service.

RSC Equipment Rental is offering customers an equipment emissions tracking service that will automatically calculate greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions from its diesel powered equipment.

For a first rainy day turnout, ICUEE surely didn't buckle under economic, or weather, woes

UK rental company Speedy Hire has ordered 300 of TowerLight’s new VT-1+eco lighting towers. The tower features an automatic switch-on and -off system that the companies claim will reduce tower maintenance costs by a third; cut pollution by 30%; and result in considerable cost savings for contractors.

Atlas Copco Specialty Rental has won the first rental contract for its recently acquired Nitrogen Bundle Boxes (NBB) with three units and other equipment being used for pipeline testing on Egypt’s Sequoia gas field.

The third European Rental Awards will be held on 26 May 2010 in Prague, Czech Republic, during the European Rental Association’s annual convention.

Hitachi is strengthening its range of mini excavators with the European launch of 1.6 and 1.8 t models, the Zaxis ZX16-3 and ZX18-3.

Mike Disser, a former NES Rentals executive in the US, has formed a marketing consultancy business and is targeting the rental sector as well as other businesses.

One of the UK’s largest portable accommodation rental companies, Wernick Hire, acquired Rollalong Hire, one of its largest competitors, in September.

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Following the acquisition of the trade and assets of UK vehicle mount specialist, EPL Access, on 6 August, Lavendon Access Group has merged the business with its own Skylift and Rise Hire operations to launch a new vehicle mount company, EPL Skylift, on 1 October.