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108 REASONS WHY LANDSCAPERS TRUST HIAB CRANES
There are many reasons why landscape companies love HIAB truck-mounted cranes. UK hard landscaping manufacturer Marshalls represents 108 of them. To develop and execute a long-term fleet replacement strategy for its integral crane equipment, Marshalls undertook a review of what they had, what they needed and what they wanted to...
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HIAB IS ON-TRACK SUPPORTING SPAIN’S NATIONAL RAILWAY
Railway maintenance is critical to infrastructure. It is paramount to the safe operation day after day, night after night, year after year, to keep trains running. So, when Prosutec and Air Rail sought to supply new state-of-the-art truck-mounted cranes to state-owned Spanish railway Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF), they partnered...
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A NEXT-LEVEL PROJECT DEMANDS A NEXT-GENERATION HOOKLIFT
When UK-based land, forest maintenance and groundworks giant, Spencer Environmental Care Associates (Spencer ECA), went searching for a new hooklift supplier, Multilift met all their requirements and stopped them in their tracks. Spencer ECA’s nationwide HS2 project is expansive, requiring access and development at sites across the UK. Ongoing work...
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PROPANE HANDLING, STORAGE & DELIVERY REVOLUTIONIZED
HIAB is no stranger to the LPG gas industry. So, news that HIAB has come up with an innovation specifically for their LPG-handling needs should come as no surprise. But this is! A hydraulically-controlled tank-clamp arm attachment that revolutionizes how bulk propane tanks are handled, stored and delivered! Conscious that...
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MASTER CONTROL WITHOUT THE EXPERIENCE
Think of driving a truck with a manual shift. Now think of switching over to an automatic. You're still driving, but there are fewer things to worry about. The whole shifting of gears, managing the clutch, gearing up or down, adjusting the gas is just, well, automatic. There's less to...
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HOME IMPROVEMENT RETAIL PREDICTIONS – 11 MONTHS ON
Each year, our President, Bob Parr, along with other business leaders, is invited by Home Improvement Retailer Magazine to profer his thoughts about where the industry has been and where it’s going. Last year, he made a few predictions, and we thought it was time to see how well he...
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IN UNPRECEDENTED TIMES, RELIABILITY IS EVERYTHING
The times we live and work in are nothing if not unprecedented. The pandemic has had a significant impact on health, businesses and entire sectors. Many businesses have not survived the impact. The construction industry has been lucky – booming in Ontario, BC and across the country. Everywhere you turn,...
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KNUCKLEBOOM MAINTENANCE AND CERTIFICATION – REQUIRED AND PROFITABLE
While Ontario’s GDP is in steep decline, the construction sector has been going up, up, up! And it’s predicted to continue. That’s excellent news for Atlas Polar and our customers. Our HIAB knuckleboom articulating cranes and Moffett truck-mounted forklifts are powering construction projects across the country and are everywhere on...
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R&D: PUTTING OUR CUSTOMERS FIRST
R&D is the heart of any successful manufacturing company. It paved the way for Atlas Polar from our engine designs back in 1938 to our renowned Polar Remote controls and state-of-the-art waterway debris removal systems: Polar Trash Racks, HydroRake® and HydroBrush®, and specialized HiVOLT ALERT™ early warning systems. And it...
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HIAB IS LEADING A CLIMATE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Climate change has reached the crisis point, and the heavy equipment and logistics industries need to step up and take some responsibility for the levels of CO2 emissions. It’s driving a new industrial revolution and HIAB is leading the charge. According to experts Oliver Wyman, in their insights on manufacturing...
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MULTILIFTS MAKE CHALLENGES A JOB BENEFIT
The first Multilift Hooklift was delivered in Finland in 1949 when two brothers saw how a lifting and loading task could be made less challenging and the basis of a successful business. The brand has never looked back. Today they're lighter, simpler, stronger, safer and better than ever – high-performance...
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40 MOFFETT M4s. 20,000 REASONS WHY.
No matter where in the world you live and work, if you have trucks and deliver product, you face the same challenges: productivity, competitiveness, downtime, maintenance, but mostly, getting your deliveries to exactly where they need to get to, safely, in the least amount of time. So while we live...