WHAT’S INSIDE
UK HEAD OFFICE
KHL Group
Southfields, Southview Road,
Wadhurst, East Sussex TN5 6TP, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)1892 784088
Fax: +44 (0)1892 784086
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USA OFFICE
KHL Group Americas LLC
3726 E. Ember Glow Way,
Phoenix, AZ 85050, USA.
Tel: +1 480 659 0578
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SOUTH AMERICA OFFICE
KHL Group Américas LLC
Manquehue Norte 151, of 1108. Las Condes
Santiago, Chile
Tel: +1 562 2885 0321
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CHINA OFFICE
Beijing Representative Office
Room 768, Poly Plaza, No.14,
South Dong Zhi Men Street, Dong Cheng
District, Beijing, P.R. China
Tel: +86 10 6553 7678
Fax: +86 10 6553 6690
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KHL SALES WORLDWIDE:
UK/IRELAND/MIDDLE EAST/
NORTH AMERICA
Wil Holloway, Advertisement Manager
Tel: +1 312 929 2563
e-mail:
GERMANY/SPAIN/AUSTRIA/SWITZERLAND
Mike Posener, Sales Executive
UK Head Office, address as above.
Tel: +353 86 043 1219
e-mail:
THE NETHERLANDS/LUXEMBOURG/
SCANDINAVIA
Arthur Schavemaker, Kenter & Co
Tel: +31(0)547 275005
e-mail:
FRANCE
Hamilton Pearman,
Greenwich Media Time (GMT)
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e-mail:
ITALY
Fabio Potestà,
Media Point & Communications SRL
Tel: +39 (0) 10 570 4948
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TURKEY
Emre Apa
Tel: +90 532 324 36 16
e-mail:
JAPAN
Akiyoshi Ojima,
Japan Advertising Communications Inc.
Tel: +81 (0)3 3261 4591
e-mail:
CHINA
Cathy Yao
Tel: +86 10 6553 7678
e-mail:
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
Wil Holloway,
Advertisement Manager
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NEWS
6
Harsco and Brand Energy merge, Terex changes tactics
in China, APEX looms large, JLG ends fiscal year on
high, Ruthmann completes range, Mills announces
2014 cap-ex.
INTERVIEW
10
Brad Boehler, president of Skyjack
talks to
Lindsey Anderson
about the
different challenges faced in markets
around the world, and the company’s
programme of expansion.
IAPA PREVIEW
13
The International Awards for
Powered Access (IAPA) take
place on 3 April in Windsor,
near London. Be sure to enter an
award and book your place at the event.
CONFIDENCE SURVEY
14
Overall confidence is up in this year’s survey of
manufacturers, end users and rental companies to
find their spending plans over the next 12 months.
Nevertheless, cautiousness will be a key factor in any
decision they make.
AI
reports.
CHINA
19
Euan Youdale
visited the BICES exhibition in Beijing
to take an indepth look at the Chinese powered access
industry and its manufacturer’s export plans. It follow’s
Murray Pollok’s
round-up of individual companies in the
last issue of
AI
.
THIRTY YEARS OF
AI
25
The predecessor to
Access International
started 30 years ago as
Access Now
, IPAF’s
own magazine. We celebrate three
decades of access reporting and hear from
industry leaders about their experiences and forecasts.
NEWS
30
FEM makes clear that tower cranes
are not designed to lift people in its latest ‘position
paper’; operator training starts in Turkey; and IPAF
expands in the Benelux.
ITALY
33
Italian manufacturers of access
equipment have not been hit has
hard by the economic crises as some
might think.The economic situation
has hurried their export plans,
however.
Euan Youdale
reports.
EUROPLATFORM REVIEW 36
One of the key messages at this
year’s Europlatform conference in
Istanbul, Turkey,
was exceptional
growth for the
country’s powered access sector.The international
market and safety issues were also major topics.
AI
reports from the event.
INSURANCE
39
William Holler
, senior vice president of US insurance
broker Hays Companies, explains how the powered
access equipment insurance market has changed over
the last 30 years and what lessons can be learned
internationally.
SCAFFOLDING
42
INTERNATIONAL
The usual round-up of news and site
reports, along with an interview with
Georg Layher
, principle share holder
at scaffolding giant Layher.
ICUEE REVIEW
44
The US-based exhibition was
bursting at the seams with attendees
and exhibitors and interesting
products this year.
Lindsey Anderson
reports from the show.
ACCESS IN ACTION
47
A selection of some of the most interesting job sites and
product pictures over the last couple of months.
SUBSCRIPTIONS
49
How to subscribe to
Access International
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INTERNATIONAL
This issue, we mark 30
years of reporting on
the access industry.
See the thirty years
celebratory feature
starting on page 25.
ON THE COVER
Officialmagazine of IPAF
CONFIDENCE SURVEY 2013
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IAPAs ENTRY CLOSING DATE 20 DECEMBER
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CHINA
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ITALY
Volume Twenty
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Issue Seven
A KHL Group publication
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November-December 2013
Celebrating thirty years as
the industry’s leading
global magazine
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