Capital Equipment News April 2016

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SKYJACKS invests in new rental fleet

S kyJacks, part of the global rental equipment and industrial services group, Waco International, is expand- ing is Aerial Work Platform (Cherry Picker) rental fleet and has recently awarded a contract for the supply of new Scissor Lifts and Mobile Boom Lifts to Zhejiang Dingli Machinery in China. The deal was concluded in January 2016 by Stephen Goodburn, CEO of Waco International and Xu Shugen, Chairman of Zhejiang Dingli Machinery Company. “Dingli products are sold in 80 countries across the globe including Germany, the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.” says Goodburn. “I was extremely impressed with the capacity of the factory and the quality of machines being produced. Dingli products have international safety certifications such as European CE issued by TUV in Germany and ECM in Italy, ANSI in the USA and AS/NZS 1418 in Australia.” Commenting on the new fleet, SkyJacks Managing Director Alistair Bennett says that SkyJacks has ordered all its new Dingli

manufactured and installed suspended platform systems for mines, power sta- tion boilers, bridges, industrial plants and buildings. SkyJacks is a proud partner of Sky Climber ® in Belgium and the sole dis- tributor in Southern Africa of the world-re- nowned Alpha and Compact hoists. SkyJacks is a Level 2 BBBEE contributor with branches in Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town and Nelspruit.

booms with load cells as standard. “This is a safety critical item and SkyJacks will be the only rental company in South Africa to have load cells fitted on new machines as standard.” He goes on to say that the JCPT1614DC model with a working height of 16 m will give SkyJacks the compact electric scissor with the greatest working height currently available in South Africa. Gregory Bloom, Sales Manager at SkyJacks says that although the company currently has a wide range of diesel and electric booms, scissors and trailer mounts in its rental fleet, the new Dingli machines will greatly increase SkyJacks' ability to service its customers. He adds that SkyJacks recently opened a training school that offers Unit Standard Training for Aerial Work Platforms and Tele- handlers, as required by the Driven Ma- chinery Regulations 2015.

“This is a safety critical item and SkyJacks will be the only rental company in South Africa to have load cells fitted on new machines as standard.”

In addition to its Aerial Work Platform fleet, SkyJacks has, over the years, designed,

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