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Sellick’s retire
After 53 years at the helm of Sellick Equipment Limited, co-founders Howard and David Sellick have decided to retire. Howard and David co-founded the company with their late father Walter Sellick in 1968. Together the trio took the company from a converted Ford tractor and built the Harrow, Ontario based company into a world leader […]
Remote control study wins BVS Cranes accolades
BVS Cranes ‘Distant Room Remote Control System’ study has won an innovative project award and the study has published in an academic journal. BVS Cranes is a certified R&D Centre by the Ministry of Industry and Technology in Turkey with a large and experienced engineering team and 36 years of background in the industry. At […]
LEEA to roll out new TEAM Card
The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) will roll out the new TEAM Card in 2022, which will replace all existing TEAM Cards. The new TEAM Card will enhance security, provide instantly verifiable data when required, and will be instantly updated by the LEEA team when changes occur – for example, when new qualifications are added, […]
IPAF seconds Genie Terex’s De Kluijver to its board
Jacco de Kluijver, Terex Aerial Work Platforms (Genie) vice president of sales and marketing EMEARI, has been seconded to the board of the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF), ahead of IPAF’s AGM in London on 10 March 2022. De Kluijver has a wealth of experience in powered access, making his entry to the industry with […]
Jekko has appointed a new regional sales manager-LATAM
Bilingual computer engineer Jorge C Menocal, with over 20 years’ experience in the lifting sector, is Jekko’s new regional sales manager-LATAM (Latin America). Menocal has built up a wide knowledge of the sector during his previous jobs as sales support in the export sales and market development departments of several international companies such as United […]
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The value of apprenticeships
Ross Moloney, CEO of the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA), looks at the ways apprenticeships offer value to the Lifting industry and to the apprentices themselves. Supply chains emerging from the constraints of the pandemic and its lockdowns are struggling to meet rapid escalations in demand, particularly in terms of having sufficient labour. While the […]
Another decimal point
How can we stage a long-term, sustained recovery after two lightning strikes? Doug Stitt, president and CEO at The Caldwell Group Inc, went looking for the answers. Someone once suggested to me, that if we don’t know where we’ve come from, we won’t know where to go. I guess there’s something in that. So, […]
