News Archive

In this section you will find an archive of older news articles about Niftylift, some of which have been supplied with kind permission from vertikal.net and KHL Group.

Awards for powered access winners

Access award winners announced in London

26th March 2010

Lavendon Access Services, the three founders of Genie Industries and small rental and training ...

John Ball hands over the president's chain to Steve Shaughnessy

IPAF has a new president

26th March 2010

Steve Shaughnessy of Skyjack took over from John Ball as IPAF president today at the AGM and ...

UK Tool joins Alliance

25th February 2010

UK Tool Hire of Ilkeston, on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border has joined the recently ...

ATN Piaf 810

Powerlift takes on ATN range

4th February 2010

UK access platform distributor Powerlift was showing an ATN Piaf 810 tracked, vertical mast ...

The two new booms outside of Siegl's headquarters

Siegl buys first Niftys

28th January 2010

Josef Siegel, the Karlsfeld, Munich based aerial lift and fork truck specialist has purchased ...

The IAPA award judges

IAPA access awards shortlists announced

21st January 2010

The shortlists for the International Powered Access Awards (IAPA) have been published following ...

Man stands in the middle of the roof without a care in the world while risking a

London Death Wish

19th January 2010

A reader from London sent us a note yesterday after two men arrived at the building opposite his ...

Malcolm Bowers

Bowers re-elected to chair Access Link

15th December 2009

The winter meeting of the Access Link, the UK association of independently owned regional rental ...

Gautam's Malay Shah with one of the company's Niftylift booms

Gautam sees Indian potential

3rd December 2009

Mumbai-based powered access renter Gautam plans to expand its modest fleet to cater for growing ...

Bryan Chew general manager of Modern Singapore (left) Jim Craddock international

Nifty reaches out to Far and Middle East

27th November 2009

UK access platform manufacturer, Niftylift is extending its reach into the Far and Middle East ...

Niftylift appoints new dealer in Qatar

18th November 2009

UK based aerial lift manufacturer Niftylift, has appointed Dutest Qatar as its distributor in ...

Nifty appoints GET

11th November 2009

Niftylift has appointed Gulf Equipment & Technology, as its exclusive distributor for ...

SAIE 2009

Aequimast takes on Niftylift in Italy

10th November 2009

Aequimast Italia, the Italian aerial platform dealer that last year became representative for ...

Nifty appoints Aequimast in Italy

27th October 2009

UK based aerial lift producer Niftylift, has appointed Turin based Aequimast as its distributor ...

One of Hird's new Niftylift HR12 4X4

Hird adds Niftylifts

13th October 2009

Hull, UK based crane and access sales and rental specialist Peter Hird & Sons has added a ...

The new four-wheel driver version of Nifty's Height Rider 12

Niftylift's 4-wheel drive Height Rider 12 adds flexibility

12th October 2009

UK rental company Peter Hird & Sons, based in Hull has recently added a Niftylift Height ...

SiOPS

Nifty launches SiOPS

9th September 2009

Niftylift, the UK based boom lift manufacturer, has launched a safety system called SiOPS - to ...

Niftylift's first "true" bi-energy hybrid HR21 Hybrid AWD

Nifty lets developments speak for themselves

30th June 2009

UK manufacturer Niftylift chose the Vertikal Days exhibition to casually unveil five new ...

Vertikal Days exhibition

Positive vibe at Vertikal Days

30th June 2009

If it is true that the sun shines upon the righteous, then the UK access industry must have been ...

Tim Ward concludes the deal with Jason Seddon and Adam Blair of Aerial Platforms

Last sale at Vertikal Days

27th June 2009

As Vertikal Days 2009 closed on Thursday evening and most exhibitors started the mad rush to ...

New premises for Goodall

15th June 2009

Jim Goodall Rental & Sales of Naples Florida has moved into new premises in neighboring Fort ...

Winners at the second European Rental Awards

European Rental Awards: winners & shortlisted companies

29th May 2009

The European Rental Awards were held at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, UK, on 26 May as part ...

Niftylift HR 15s

Nifty fits the niche

20th May 2009

Traction Equipment of Stafford, UK, has found that, even in these challenging times, some niche ...

Matt Bloomer of Traction Equipment with one of his Nifty HR15n

Nifty Traction

20th May 2009

Traction Equipment of Stafford, UK, has added a number of additional Nifty HR15n articulated ...

Job Access programme

IPAF promotes access to students

15th April 2009

IPAF (the International Powered Access Federation) is inviting young people to learn about the ...

Jim Craddock of Niftylift and Azhar Hanfi of Abahsain Heavy Equipment sea

Niftylift formalises dealership in Saudi Arabia

19th March 2009

Niftylift, one of AL Laith's suppliers, has expanded its influence in the Middle East by forging ...

Release of Hemel Two

10th March 2009

The two aerial lifts stranded on a roundabout in Hemel Hempstead, UK, have been liberated. We ...

Niftylift's new levelling boom

Niftylift launches levelling articulated boom

9th March 2009

Niftylift used The Rental Show to introduce a new articulated boom with hydraulic outriggers. ...

The lift on the island

Nifty on ice

27th February 2009

Urban Access the UK based aerial lift company from Bournemouth, Dorset, has supplied and ...

AL Laith has sold a number of Niftylift machines to Dubai airport.

Dubai airport invests in platforms from AL Laith

4th February 2009

AL Laith Scaffolding LLC, Dubai, has recently supplied a large number of aerial work platforms ...

One of Eurotank's Niftylift 90s alongside a typical tank vent pipe

Award for gas sensitive lift

30th January 2009

Eurotank Environmental has won the 2008 Health and Safety award at the Association of Petroleum ...

At the hand over

More Niftys for Gjaltema

27th January 2009

Dutch rental company Gjaltema has purchased five more Niftylift boom lifts as part of a fleet ...

A few of the 120T trailer lifts ready for delivery

190 Niftys to Boels

4th December 2008

Eurosupply, the Niftylift distributor for Holland has completed delivery of an order for 190 ...

Niftylift appoints Lifto Center as its Bulgarian representative

Niftylift appoints Lifto Center in Bulgaria

21st October 2008

At the recent Plovdiv Exhibition in Bulgaria Stefan Cankov, managing director of Lifto Center ...

The Lifto Center stand

Nifty moves into Bulgaria

21st October 2008

Nifty Lift has appointed Destination Bulgaria Ltd, now trading as Lifto Center, as its ...

City Lift's new Nifty 210SD

First Nifty 210SD in Denmark

20th October 2008

City Lift, the Tastrup, Denmark based Niftylift and Skyjack dealer has taken delivery of the ...

Jiri Karlik (left), director and Pavel Spacek, sales manager for Trasek TS

New Czech dealer for Niftylift

1st October 2008

Niftylift in the UK has named Trasek TS in Havlickuv Brod as its dealer in the Czech Republic. ...

Storent SIA, based in Riga, Latvia, has just confirmed an order of 20 Niftylift

Niftylift makes inroads into developing markets

9th September 2008

Andris Bisnieks, chairman of the newly formed rental company Storent SIA, based in Riga, Latvia, ...

IPAF sub-group, led by Roger Bowden of Niftylift

IPAF launches access recruitment drive at APEX

29th August 2008

One of the highlights of the show will be the launch of a new International Powered Access ...

Niftylift makes inroads into Eastern Europe

23rd June 2008

UK Manufacturer, Niftylift, has recently acquired full Russian product certification and ...

Finnish rental company, Leinolift, takes delivery of its first Niftylift N210

Nifty takes centre stage at Leinolift's open day

17th June 2008

Centre stage at Leinolift Oy's open day was a newly delivered Niftylift N210 21m trailer mounted ...

Paul Johnson, owner and manager of new UK rental company

New UK hire company enters the access market

17th June 2008

A new access rental company has opened in the UK. Upward Powered Access is based near Oxford ...

Access Days

1st April 2008

Although Access Days, on the 14th and 15th of May, has fewer exhibitors - Niftylift, Skyjack, ...

Niftylift invests in Australasia

1st April 2008

Niftylift has invested further in the Australian and New Zealand market by opening a purpose ...

Clements' trailer fleet includes Niftylift's largest towable unit, the Nifty 210

There is still a market for trailer-mounts

1st November 2007

"I thought the market for trailers was dead," says James Longstaff, managing director of ...

Niftylift Height Rider 12 helping Rek

Facelift supplies Niftylift Height Rider to Rek

1st October 2007

UK-based Facelift has supplied a Niftylift Height Rider 12 (4x4) platform to Brighton, UK-based ...

Pictured at Bauma is Jon Geir

Mest orders NiftyLift machines

1st June 2007

Jon Geir Sigurbjornsson, product manager with Mest of Iceland, on the Niftylift stand. Mest, ...

AWPT welcomes ANSI standard

1st June 2007

Aerial Work Platform Training (AWPT), IPAF's North American subsidiary, welcomes the new ...

A Niftylift boom at last year's Access Days show

AccessDays 2007

1st April 2007

The Niftylift-organised Access Days event, held at the Kingfisher Golf and Country Club, ...

Ability to travel through narrow openings and work on uneven terrain

On four legs

1st October 2006

Narrow tracked or wheeled units with outriggers may still represent something of a niche access ...

HR18

Niftylift at the Access Daze event

1st June 2006

This special 'Construction' version of the HR18 was shown by Niftylift at the Access Daze event ...

Niftylift's 21 m working height HR21 weighs just over 6 t.

Light on its feet

1st April 2006

Andrew Fishburn, sales and marketing director at UK access rental company Wizard Workspace ...

Niftylift V130 telescopic boom fitted to a Mercedes-Benz Unimog U3000

What A Nifty Mercedes

1st January 2006

PJ Allan Sales & Service in Leicestershire, UK, has fitted a Niftylift V130 telescopic boom ...

Van Oosten To Run Niftylift Germany

1st June 2005

Mr van Oosten-who knows Niftylift from his time with its Netherlands dealer, Eurosupply-will ...

Niftylift's new 150T trailer mount

Access Daze

1st April 2005

As in the last two years, Niftylift, Skyjack and several other access suppliers will hold their ...