January 14, 2009	Vol. 6, Issue 1

2008 Lift and Access Equipment Showcase DVDs Available

Maximum Capacity Media, publisher of Lift and Access, now offers a DVD from its annual Equipment Showcase. The DVD will be available in early December and offers a wealth of information about the scissor lifts and telehandlers featured at the event. Call Becky Grazier at 800-231-8953 for more information. Rates are $59.95 for first DVD and $19.95 for additional copies. Click here for additional information.



Oil & Steel to Introduce New Access Platform at The Rental Show

January 14, 2009 – Italian manufacturer Oil & Steel S.p.A. will participate at this year’s ARA Rental Show in Atlanta, Ga., showing its new access platform. Oil & Steel, a European leader of the truck-mounted and tracked access platform industry, will present the new Octopus 55, a lightweight access platform installed on tracks.

“The participation in The Rental Show in Atlanta follows a precise expansion strategy of our company in the American market and in the USA in particular,” said Andrea Certo, CEO of Oil & Steel.

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Terex Cranes Launches Demag CC 9800 Crane

Michigan Makes AWP Operator Training Law

Assessment Begins for Crane Operators in British Columbia

Guardian Fall Protection Opens Training Facility

Mantis’ Largest Model Brings Power Back to the Gulf Coast

With a 128-foot, four-section boom, the 100-ton Mantis 20010 is the company’s largest telecrawler to date.

January 13, 2009 – After Hurricanes Gustav and Ike assaulted the coasts of Louisiana and Texas, the need was immediate for manpower and equipment to help restore devastated areas. When the largest crawler crane Mantis has introduced yet, the 100-ton 20010, joined Scott Powerline & Utility Equipment’s fleet in Monroe, La., it arrived just in time to go to work on hurricane relief efforts in its own backyard.

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Bigge Helps to Rejuvenate California Neighborhoods

Manitowoc Expects Crane Revenue to Drop 20 Percent in 2009

Ohio Companies Unite to Create Industrial Construction Company

Lifting Gear Hire Expands in the East

Worth County, Iowa, December 2008 – Iowa officials are proposing three citations for a North Dakota construction company following a deadly wind farm accident last October. A man was struck by a rough-terrain forklift on the windmill project and later died from his injuries. Reports said the forklift operator did not see the 46-year-old worker.

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