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ClickSafety.com has delivered two million safety training courses online

Rental company A-Plant has promoted Steve King to the new position of sales director for the UK company's Powered Access business, part of A-Plant Specialist Products.

AVS System Lift AG, the German aerial platform rental co-operative, said it will expand membership and improve member services following record-high revenues in 2007. The group announced a dividend of €250 per share - equivalent to €5000 per member - at its annual meeting on 25 July in Dusseldorf.

‘The access rental company of the future’ is the theme of the second Europlatform conference in Maastricht, the Netherlands, on Tuesday, 16 September 2008, the day before the APEX aerial platform exhibition.

The APEX exhibition in Maastricht, The Netherlands in September includes a free conference, held on the first day of the exhibition on 17 September.

Sunshine Enterprise, Inc, the Memphis, US-based importer of Chinese-made scaffolding and hoists is to expand its product offering in North America and plans to sell equipment in Europe as well.

More than 500 attend scaffold industry’s 36th annual convention and expo as presidency is handed over

Access Plus, the Ayrshire, Scotland based access rental company, is planning to enter the English access rental market in early 2009, probably in the north east.

Palfinger Group revenues of €423.5 million in the first half of 2008 were 24.3% above the €340.6 million of last year's first half. EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) rose to €59.6 million, 16.9% greater than the €51.0 million of the same period last year.

The International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) is distributing a free video that graphically depicts the dangers of operating a boom-type access platform without wearing a full body harness. The video shows the "whip-lash" effects on a crash dummy in the basket of a Skyjack self-propelled boom while driving over an obstacle.

Following the wake of a string of construction-related fatalities in NYC, two workers die after falling 40 feet from a boom lift

Using its extensive dealer network, Toyota is now the official US distributor of Aichi SV-Series scissor lifts, SP wheeled booms and IRS-Series crawler booms. Company plans for new models in 2009

An 18% rise in second quarter operating profit to US$58.1 million from the Access Services segment led Harsco Corporation's 17% rise overall to $90.4 million from $77.0 million last year. Access sales rose 19% to $429 million from $361 million in the period last year.

The Demonstration Hall at Alimak Hek, Middelbeers, Netherlands is used as both a sales aid and for training. The company has used the space to demonstrate the various ways that components can be put together to create different mast climbing solutions.

Alimak Hek has dramatically increased its sales revenue since 2004. Maria Hadlow met some of the management team to discover what has driven the company to such heights.

Following the acquisition of Bil-Jax by Haulotte's US subidiary on 24 July, each of the product lines of the two companies will continue to wear its own brand.

Nationwide Platforms is the new name that Lavendon Access Services has given its two major UK businesses, Nationwide Access and The Platform Company. The new combined identity will be formally launched on 3 November 2008.

Despite a 5% fall in sales in North America, JLG Industries managed to increase its sales by 5.3% to US$920.2 million and its operating profits by 27.3% to $125.2 million for the three months to 30 June.

In order to dig a stranded 6,000-ton ferry out of beach sand, a UK-based contractor had to work with mother nature and high-gradeability machines

Mid Country Machinery, a construction equipment dealer and rental company in the US, chose pink as the colour of new access equipment as part of its breast cancer awareness campaign. The Fort Dodge, Iowa construction equipment dealer and renter has added two 24 m working height JLG Model 800S telescoping booms in the special colour to its rental fleet