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HSS Hire adds Laois Hire range of plant equipment to its hire flee
Traditionally known for its expertise in the provision of small tools and equipment and related hire services, HSS has extended its relationship with Irish partners Laois Hire to put down roots in the plant sector too. Bringing their partnership with plant hire company Laois Hire (already part of the HSS Group in Ireland) to the UK and operating from their Beckton supercentre to meet demand in the Greater London area, HSS Hire will now also of... [more]
DSP Electrical can work at 22m within extra narrow aisles with PB Lifttechnik S225-12ES electric scissor
DSP Electrical Contractors have conquered narrow 1.75m aisles and high level work on a current warehouse refit project using the UK’s first 1.2m wide, 22.5m working height electric scissor lift. Driveable at full height, the new PB Lifttechnik S225-12ES platform is on hire from access rental specialist, Lifterz, who recently took delivery of two of the machines – the first available on the UK rental market - from PB’s distributor, Ranger Equi... [more]
Autotech supplies new control systems for stacker cranes at Chivas Brothers bottling plant
The Scotch whisky and premium gin arm of the drinks giant Pernod Ricard, Chivas Brothers markets a range of spirits, producing some 20 million cases per year. From its bottling plant at Kilmalid, northwest of Glasgow – one of the largest in Scotland – Chivas Brothers distributes leading brands including Ballantine’s, Beefeater Gin and Malibu to more than 150 countries around the world. To ensure that Chivas Brothers could continue to support ... [more]
Safetrak helps E.ON control its lifting rigging equipment
E.ON is one of the UK’s leading integrated power and gas companies. The company generates and distributes electricity as well as retailing power and gas. The company employs around 17,000 people in the UK and over 93,000 worldwide. With such a vast workforce, many of whom are working with rigging equipment, health and safety has to be a top priority. Stephen Attaway, Storeman at E.ON’s Kingsnorth Power Station explains: “Rigging equipment nee... [more]
27-metre platform mounted on Mitsubishi Fuso Canter chassis
Access Industries, of Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire, has sold 10 Canter-based ‘cherry pickers’ with 27-metre reaches in the last year, to a variety of customers including hire firms, commercial cleaning companies, builders and roofers. Compact external dimensions have helped to make the Mitsubishi Fuso Canter the 7.5-tonne chassis of choice for the access equipment specialists. All range-topping 7C18 models, the Canters were supplied by Hatfiel... [more]
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Area around Alaska park opened to wolf hunters (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
There are about 70 wolves left in the 6 million-acre Denali National Park and Preserve. (Chuck Kennedy/MCT)
Helicopter to be used in wolf hunts (Juneau Empire)
ANCHORAGE - The Alaska Board of Game on Friday approved opening the northeast periphery of the Denali National Park and Preserve for wolf trapping.
The ultimate Asian 'phone clones' (Daily Telegraph)
The weird and wonderful world of knock-off mobile phones can produce the occasional pleasant surprise
Nick Robinson (BBC News)
Iraq inquiry: Gordon Brown v Tony Blair
Imported Aerial Lift Will Be Tallest in North America (Engineering News-Record)
When it arrives from Europe in July, the first high-reach work platform to join Abilene High Lift Aerial’s fleet will be the tallest of its kind in North America.
de Villiers and Kallis inspire consolation win (CricInfo)
AB de Villiers and Jacques Kallis hit contrasting centuries to build on the platform laid by the openers to charge South Africa to an imposing 365 which proved beyond the reach of the inexperienced Indian batting line-up in the third ODI in Ahmedabad
DEALTALK-Terex CEO bets big and investors double down (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)
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Never too cool for a hard workout (Spartanburg Herald-Journal)
Published: Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 5:15 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 5:15 a.m. Ms. Bleiler works out at her sport's training center in Park City Utah. Her regimen includes the trampoline and a balance ball.
Dante's Inferno video game review (Daily Telegraph)
Dante's Inferno is an entertaining video game that takes its cues from both an Italian epic poem and the superb God Of War series.
National Academy of Engineering elects 68 members and 9 foreign associates (EurekAlert!)
( National Academy of Sciences ) The National Academy of Engineering has elected 68 new members and nine foreign associates, announced NAE President Charles M. Vest today.
