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UK powered access provider AFI-Uplift is investing £5 million (US$8 million) in expanding its rental fleet in 2012, with 43 new machines already on order.

Rental company, Industrial Access Romania expects a good return on its new JLG Ultra Boom 1500SJ: the first of this 50m working height telescopic boom to be sold in Eastern Europe.

Since September 2011 the City of Rome's Department of Environmental Protection has been using a fleet of CTE truck-mounted articulated platforms, 17 units of the 20.8m working height ZED 21J models and a 28.7m working height ZED 29J. The contract was awarded following a tender placed in May 2011 to a task-force comprising CTE; Roscini, an experienced Nissan dealer based in Rome, and Tecnoalt, a specialist platform rental, sales and service which is part of the CTE group and also based in Rome.

Easi UpLifts said it has started a “substantial capital investment programme for 2012” and has confirmed orders with JLG and Teupen. Most of the new machines will be based at the company’s UK branches.

UK rental company Fork Rent has ordered 600 JCB loadall telescopic handlers as part of its 2012 expansion programme.

TCA Lift has delivered the first Falcon tracked platform to South Korea and it is being used in maintenance work in the country's largest shopping mall.

Cramo has signed a Nordic-wide rental agreement with Swedish construction group NCC. The two have agreed to a long term commitment with the aim of improving efficiencies and reducing the total cost for equipment rental services.

Coates Hire has initiated an ‘Access Push’ project in Western Australia to increase the size of its aerial platform rental fleet in response to growing demand from major projects and the mining sector.

Italian manufacturers Oil & Steel and Palazzani have made an agreement to market their products jointly in Germany.

Online auctioneer of heavy equipment and trucks, Ritchie Bros Auctioneers announced on December 7 that its online equipment sales for 2011 had exceeded US$1 billion.

Italian manufacturer Easy Lift has signed an agreement with Boels Rental to supply 50 tracked platforms. The first batch was delivered in September and consisted of three different models, the R130, R160 and R190, with working heights of 13m, 16m and 19m. The final batch of machines will be delivered in February 2012.

In addition to the 45 new Socage truck-mounted platforms that Access International recently reported being added to the Nacanco fleet. The Italian aerial platform specialist has bought 30 Braviisol Leonardo vertical mast machines and ten 8m Genie booms.

Italian rental company Eurotecno has confirmed Hinowa as its chosen supplier of tracked platforms with the purchase of three new machines and consolidating a long standing commercial relationship.

A UK coach and bus builder has improved productivity after investing in new scissor lifts from Snorkel.

After a two year spending freeze, Rob McMeeking, the managing director of the EPL Skylift said that the UK vehicle mount division of the Lavendon Group will spending around £4 million on new equipment next year.

Italian rental specialist Nacanco has bought 45 aerial platforms from Socage: 38 DA320s and 7 DA324s.

Mtandt Rentals Limited, based in Chennai, India and owner of the Onrent brand, has announced its intention to buy 3500 new units for its rental fleet over the next four years.

Isoli's Iranian partner Hydro Atlas has recently sold five PT19.9 truck mounted units to an Iranian municipality.

An Indian shipyard is to take delivery of 23 new Haulotte telescopic booms in what is thought to be one of the largest ever powered access orders in the country.

Through Pro lift, its Latvian dealer, CTE has delivered a ZED 26J articulated truck mounted platform to DDzKSU a Latvian company responsible for the maintenance of 920 residences.