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At the Samoter exhibition in Verona Mr Severino Zatti, Palazzani's sales manager told Access International that he had hoped to show one of the company's new truck mounted machines at Samoter, but supplier issues had prevented it.

The Palfinger North America Group debuted its largest aerial platform, the 337-foot (103 m) working height P333 at ConExpo. It was the first time the machine has been exhibited in North America.

US fire equipment manufacturer Pierce Manufacturing is to be exclusive distributor in North America of Bronto Skylift’s firefighting aerial platforms. Bronto will continue to sell its platforms to non-fire fighting markets through its existing distribution network.

Italian truck mount companies Cela and Socage are both expanding their market share by introducing new models and moving into new markets. Fiorenzo Flisi managing director of Socage and Simone Scalabrini sales director of Cela were visitors to the Samoter exhibition held in Verona, Italy 2 to 5 March.

The first Wumag WT1000 to arrive in Australia has joined the fleet of LinCon Hire. The company has been running several Wumag Palfinger access platforms from the Jumbo range for a number of years, now LinConHire has expanded its range of services acquiring 100m, all-terrain, truck mounted access platform.

Development in vehicle mounted access platforms goes from strength to strength: at the compact end designers endeavour to get more height on smaller chassis, while the stretch for greater height goes on at the upper end. In between manufacturers are looking at green options, smoother motion and ergonomic packages.

TGM Wind Services, the US company that focuses on wind turbine projects, has bought its third Bronto Skylift S-90 HLA truck-mounted platform in less than 18 months and may well add two further units before mid-2011.

The Palfinger North America Group will launch the brand new P 333 all terrain aerial work platform during ConExpo 2011, the company said.

German truck mount specialist Ruthmann has entered the design of its 27 m working height boom for the 2010 Swedish Steel Prize.

The new machine on the Isoli stand at SAIE was the PT 225 HE+HE, which has the largest working envelope of any of Isoli's machines mounted on a 3.5 t truck. The company was also keen to talk about its boom kits for export and ultra-light steel and versatility, which the company believes characterises all its truck mounted machines for 3.5 t and 6.0/7.5 t chassis.

Isoli has received an order from Eastern Europe for four of its PNT 210J units with some special features.

Access platform manufacturer Cumberland Industries UK is aiming to help utility companies, local authorities and arborists to drive down fleet replacement costs with its new 20 m double articulating access platform mounted on the Iveco Daily 4x4 chassis.

Texas-based Abilene High Lift Aerial has received the 328-foot working height Ruthmann TTS 1000 platform it ordered back in the beginning of 2010.

Skylift, Inc. has developed a new 55-foot truck-mounted aerial work platform

Italian truck-mount specialist, Isoli has introduced a new 14.35 m truck mounted platform, MPT 140 with a platform insulated to 1000 V.

The new Socage A314 has been mounted on an Isuzu D-Max, which, says Italian manufacturer Socage, has been chosen for its efficiency, particularly the performance and reduced consumption of the diesel engines.

Former WUMAG executive Rolf Kulawik has been appointed the new managing director of Ruthmann GmbH & Co, the German truck mounted aerial platform manufacturer.

The Spanish Crane Rental Specialist Roxu Group is the owner of Bronto's new 112 m truck mounted platform which can be seen on the Bronto stand next to a 104 m model, which has been in the Finnish rental company, Janneniska's fleet for several months.

Palfinger Platforms is extending its Jumbo class platform range with the P320 a truck-mounted access platform with a working height of 32 m.

Oil&Steel will be showing a new truck mount at Bauma designed particularly for the Dutch and German markets. The Snake 2714 Compact has a 27 m working height and 14.5 m outreach on a 3.5 t chassis.