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Wacker Neuson adds cabs to selected dumpers
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Wacker Neuson is adding an integrated operator’s cab with four of its site dumpers, the 3, 6, 9 and 10 t models (3001, 6001, 9001 and 1001+).
Altrad completes Belle restructuring
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French company Altrad has completed the restructuring of the Belle Group business it acquired in January this year.
Cummins changes strategy on rental market
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Cummins Power Generation, the Cummins division that operates a power rental business, has confirmed that it will focus on being a supplier to the rental sector rather than a major rental provider in its own right.
Hertz joins SmartEquip network
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Hertz Equipment Rental Corp (HERC) is the latest major equipment rental company to sign up with the SmartEquip network that provides online links between rental companies and equipment suppliers for parts and other aftermarket services.
Tower Light offers light calculation tool
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Italian lighting tower manufacturer Tower Light is offering its customers a new software application that will calculate the amount of light required to cover any interior of exterior site.
Insurance company warns renters to be more vigilant
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One of Europe’s largest insurance companies, RSA (formerly Royal Sun Alliance), is warning equipment rental companies to be more vigilant against the threat of plant theft and criminal fraud.
Compact Power rentals business will be at 100 Home Depot stores
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Compact Power Inc (CPI) and Home Depot have signed a deal that will see CPI establish a new company, Compact Power Equipment Centers LLC (CPEC), to run large equipment rental business at selected Home Depot stores.
UpRight goes "back to roots" with new low-height access range
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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.
Ritchie auctions 1,800 pieces of equipment in Spain
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Industrial auctioneer, Ritchie Bros., raked in more than US$23 million at an auction in Moncofa, Spain on 17 and 18 September
Emeco downsizes in Europe as Freedman prepares to step down
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Australian heavy equipment rentals company Emeco is to significantly downsize its European operation over the next year and undertake a strategic review of its US business as part of a restructuring that will also see it sell off many of its smaller ‘civil construction’ machines in Europe and the US.
GAM reschedules debt and plans Panama and Peru openings
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Spanish rental company GAM has negotiated a new schedule of debt repayment with its lenders to adjust to current business conditions. The company’s revenues fell 25% to €143 million in the first half of the year.
Manitou sales fall 56% in 'brutal' first half
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Manitou has reported a 56% fall in revenues to €357.8 million for the first half of the year, with sales down 60% in Europe and 66% in North and South America.
Hewden walks the dinosaurs
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Hewden provides UK leg of the Walking With Dinosaurs - The Arena Spectacular world tour with access solution
Algeco Scotsman steers course through recession
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Global portable accommodation renter Algeco Scotsman said its multinational footprint was allowing it to weather the economic downturn better than its rivals although acknowledged that business conditions remained very difficult in markets including the UK, Spain and the US.
Hycon launches low-cost hydraulic breaker pack
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Danish hydraulic tool specialist Hycon has launched a small powerpack and 15 kg breaker comination that it hopes will compete head on with electric breakers.
Netherlands renter Bredenoord launches fuel cell generator
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Netherlands power rental company Bredenoord has developed a hydrogen fuel cell powered generator and has started to rent it at events and other sites in the Benelux area.
Terex's Tim Ford urges access industry to learn from the downturn
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Tim Ford, president of Terex AWP, used his keynote address at the Europlatform conference to urge the access industry to learn from the current recession.
HKL co-founder Bernd Meyer passes away
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Bernd Meyer, co-founder and longtime managing partner of German rental company HKL Baumaschinen, passed away on 27 August aged 69, HKL has announced.
Hewden makes big push on national accounts business
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Hewden is making a major push to grow its national accounts business in the UK with the aim of increasing it to 50% of the company’s total turnover, up from the current 33-35% level.
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