2021-09-02

How equipment rental affects construction productivity

Is rental helping to combat the decline in construction productivity, or is it part of the problem? Kevin Appleton examines the issue.One of the perplexing features of economic reporting over the past couple of decades has been the stagnation of, or decline in, productivity in the construction sector right across the developed world (the UK has been a modest exception to this, but even there certain sub-sectors have registered declining productivity too).This has been against a backdrop of generally rising industrial productivity across the sam···

2021-09-02

ARA Show: Rental-ready

Eight months after its originally scheduled date, the ARA Show will finally welcome visitors when it opens its doors Oct. 18-20 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.This year’s show will be ARA’s 65th annual convention and trade show and nearly 600 exhibitors will be on hand displaying their latest products and technologies.“The 2021 show will provide the same industry-leading networking opportunities, education and events, all with safety and attendees’ business needs in mind,” ARA said. “Plus, there are several exciting new opportunities and ex···

2020-07-07

Bauma China to proceed as planned

Show organiser Messe München has announced that Bauma China will take place as planned from November 24 to 27, 2020, at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC) in China.A host of construction equipment shows have been postponed this year due to the impact of Covid-19, but Messe München has said that they expect more than 3,000 exhibitors at Bauma China.China’s economy has recovered quicker from the impact of Covid-19 than many others around the world and the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is predicted to g···

2020-07-07

SaMoTer 2020: See you in October

There is a new postponement for SaMoTer 2020. The Coronavirus emergency, which is literally paralyzing Italy and beyond, had already forced the organizers to postpone the Verona fair from the end of March to mid-May. Now, considering the worsening of the situation and especially the tightening of the restrictions adopted by Italy and other European countries, the new dates have been released: from Wednesday 21 to Sunday 25 October 2020. On those days – viruses permitting, of course – in addition to SaMoTer, Verona should also host the ···

2020-07-01

Platformers Days postponed

The German powered access and lifting event Platformers' Days has been postponed.Messe Karlsruhe, the new organiser of Platformers' Days, announced yesterday that the event will be delayed until September next year, due to latest rules issued by the state government prohibiting events likely to attract larger visitor numbers. This year would have been the debut for the new location in Karlsruhe and the new organisers/owners. The last Platformers' took place in 2018 at the old location in Hohenroda. This will be the first time t···

2020-06-29

The Economy or Lives?

It seems an age since the 'Lockdown' environment hit Europe and North America, yet it is little more than two months, but in that short time the Covid-19 virus has taken over 220,000 lives in the region, while the economies have gone into meltdown. Unemployment in the USA has already reached levels last seen in the Great Depression, while millions are depending on food banks and seemingly impregnable companies are on the verge of total collapse. The question now is what steps to take in order to move back towards normality? So···