The two day event was a great success.

Now nearing the completion of the refurbishment of the historic main train sheds, ending late 2013, Pop Up Products attend to promote the idea of most appropriate choice of equipment for access at low level with our range of Pop Up scissor and mast lifts and aluminium products.

Terminal 2 is the UK’s largest privately funded construction project with around 35,000 people expected to work on the project over its lifetime. The new Terminal 2 will reduce its carbon footprint incorporating large north-facing windows in the roof to flood the building with natural light. Solar panels on the roof will further reduce the dependency on traditional energy supplies and a new energy centre, partially fuelled by renewably sourced woodchips, will provide heating and cooling for the building.

Pop Up were delighted to support HETco (Laing O’Rourke and Ferrovial Agroman JV) and Hire Station to promote best working practice and appropriate choice of low level access equipment. Demo’d on the day were the Pop Up Push Around Pro. The Pop Up Push Around Eco with the confined space handrail (perfect for access through ceiling tiles) and the new podium prototype (designed to comply with new regulations of PAS 250 due in early 2013).

Mark Westwood of BAA and Gary Ellis of HETco enjoy 2 mins in front of the camera

Pop Up were delighted to support and promote Laing O’Rourke’s objectives of: promoting best practice,  ensuring the tools employed enable high H&S performance, ensuring workforce behaviour encourages positive H&S performance, creating a common H&S culture across LOR & supply chain and encouraging one team working.

Recent innovations include a new AGR tower system and a podium specifically designed to meet the new PASMA stability standard.

New this year was the Altrex range of high quality aluminium access products. Altrex produces an extensive range of aluminium towers, ladders, steps and suspended platforms. The company recently introduced Altrex Mobile Safety®, adding QR codes to its aluminium towers. Read by a smart phone, the QR code provides end users with direct digital access to the tower’s instruction manual, helping to improve job site safety.

Our parts and service provider, Independent Parts and Service (IPS) has painted the 2m platform height lift in a unique red, white and blue livery, to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. The platform floor and toe board, feature the Union Jack flag of the United Kingdom. IPS also refurbished the lift, equipping it with new castors, controls and decals.

The lift will be auctioned at the evening networking event at Vertikal Days on Wednesday (June 27^th). Anyone visiting the show but not attending the evening event can place a ‘silent bid’ in advance, by completing a bid card on the IPS stand at Vertikal Days.

IPS will send 100% of the proceeds of the auction to the Lighthouse Club benevolent fund, the charity that provides emergency financial help to families of construction workers in event of sickness or death.

Pop Up for charity ran as a feature length news story on Vertikal’s website:  http://www.vertikal.net/en/news/story/15149/

- promote the safe and proper use of towers in the workplace

- demonstrate the all-round versatility of towers

- provide a snapshot of tower use on a practical, day-to-day basis

- promote tower training and competency

- raise awareness and understanding of the role of PASMA in developing UK and European standards and tower guidance

Look out for our new promotion and be in with a chance of winning an iPad: http://www.popupproducts.co.uk/

For more info: Nigel’s page on uk.virginmoneygiving.com

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Two days of product familiarisation and assessment take place at the impressive Altrex headquarters at Zwolle in Holland. There’s a lot to take in and it is very clear that Altrex really does produce a complete and innovative range of aluminium access products. Our solutions for working safely at height will be greatly complimented by our partners offer.

Altrex produces an extensive range of aluminium towers, ladders, steps and suspended platforms, which are sold worldwide by a distributor network. The company recently introduced ‘Altrex Mobile Safety®’, adding QR codes to its rolling and folding towers. Read by a smartphone, the QR code provides end users with direct digital access to the tower’s instruction manual, helping to improve job site safety.

Nigel Woodger, Managing Director of Pop Up Products said: “Pop Up has always been about using the most appropriate equipment for safe and productive working at height.

“By working with Altrex, we can instantly offer our customers a wider product range and develop future high quality products with a safety-conscious partner.”

Pop Up Products has a proven track record in low-level access with its aluminium access range, comprising podium steps, folding towers and scaffold towers. It was also the first company to introduce push around mini scissor lifts; the award-winning Pop Up range remains the market leader.

Pop Up is dedicating its entire stand at the UK’s Executive Hire Show to Altrex products, to demonstrate the quality and breadth of the range.

The Executive Hire Show is the UK’s premier trade fair for the plant hire and equipment rental industry. It takes place at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, on February 8th and 9th. Visit Pop Up Products Ltd at Stand B80. For further details on Pop Up’s powered access platforms.

Vertikal carries the story:
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Our reporting staff were kept busy throughout the day leaving little opportunity to update the news. This will be rectified as soon as possible.

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Although it is now known for its push-around lifts, Pop-Up Products has been manufacturing and supplying aluminium scaffold for more than 30 years. For the past 30 years the company has promoted its aluminium scaffolding under the Eiger brand. A new tower and podium are the first scaffolding to be branded as part of the Pop-Up range.

The Pop-Up Tower is the new name for the Eiger 500 Tower System, a Class 3 heavy duty, lightweight aluminium tower. Standard features include automatic platform wind lock, plus colour-coded braces, and 3T (through the trapdoor) system for quick and easy erection/dismantling.

Pop-Up Tower is available in double-width 1.45m and single-width 0.85m frames, with working heights up to 14.2m internally and 10.2m outdoors.

New features for 2011 include advanced guardrail protection, which provides a high level of fall protection during the erection and dismantling of the tower. The Pop-Up Tower also features a new lightweight platform.

Nigel Woodger, Managing Director of Pop-Up Products Ltd, said: “We felt that Pop-Up has become such a strong brand that we should extend it to cover all our products.

“Our aluminium products have the same qualities as our lifts – high quality, innovative products that are leaders in their field because they are designed from the ground up with the end user in mind.”

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Last year the member organisations of the Access Industry Forum (AIF) simply took an exhibition stand, but this year they are back with an 8-presentation, full day seminar on Day 1 in Spotlight Theatre 2 covering all aspects of working at height, with a particular emphasis on the latest developments in standards and safety, plus an update from the HSE on working at height.

The principal forum for all the leading trade associations and federations involved in temporary and permanent work at height, the AIF has assembled an impressive line-up of speakers committed to advancing and sharing best practice in this specialist sector.

Dedicated to driving the safety agenda forward, the free seminar will include sessions from the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), the Association of Technical Lightning & Access Specialists (ATLAS), the Edge Protection Federation (EPF), Fall Arrest Safety Equipment Training (FASET), the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF), the Ladder Association (LA), the National Access & Scaffolding Confederation (NASC) and PASMA – the organisation representing the mobile access tower industry.

The topics covered will range from the latest guidance in scaffolding, an examination of the continuing role and relevance of ladders and stepladders in the workplace, to the results of a major review into fall protection guidance for mobile access towers and an HSE update on the current trends across different industry sectors. For details of the complete programme, including speaker profiles, please visit www.ioshconference.co.uk

Furthermore all participating members of the AIF will be available for audience questions from 12.30 – 1pm in Spotlight Theatre 2 to answer any particular working at height challenges. For those unable to attend the seminar, representatives of the Forum will be available on stand F95 throughout the event.

A growing segment of low-level aerial work platforms are taking the rental industry by storm, and providing contractors with a safer, more productive way to do work previously reserved for ladders and scaffolds.

It sounds like the result of the common New Year’s resolution to slim down in time for spring, but light and low are key words in a fast-growing segment of low-level, lightweight aerial work platforms, offering safe and convenient access in some very specific applications, and a worthy alternative to ladders and scaffolding in many more.

Low-level access equipment is generally considered anything under 19 feet, and the segment has exploded over the past two years as the recession was pummeling utilization and rental rates in the mid- and high-level access segments. Low-level access applications are everywhere and the opportunity for rental businesses to expand their fleet into this emerging niche are growing, with more new product offerings in this category being introduced early this year.

“We believe that low-level access will undergo major growth in North America as more and more people swap podiums and stepladders for lightweight, compact aerial lifts,” says David Smith, president of Snorkel North America. “The market is still in its infancy, but there is huge potential for this type of product.”

According to the manufacturers interviewed by RER, reasons for this growth are many. This new segment of machines provides a safer and more ergonomic alternative to ladders and scaffolding, offering lower step heights, time savings from repeated climbing up and down to and from height, as well as a means to differentiate rental equipment providers from their competitors that may not offer these low-level AWPs. In addition, these lighter weight lifts are well suited for use in areas with weight-sensitive floor panels such as computer server rooms and hospitals.

“Architects are increasingly under pressure to take out concrete and this usually means floors with less load-bearing capabilities,” Smith says. “Virtually all self-propelled scissorlifts are just too heavy to work on many of the new suspended flooring systems used to cover ducts for computer network cables, so it’s either back to the old school with stepladders or use a more lightweight product like Pop-Up.”

Absolute E-Z Up’s managing partner Mike Buley also points to the evolution of commercial building and remodeling as a factor in the fast growth of the low-level access market. “First of all, because of [the nature of] construction growth, pressure on architects and engineers to design higher buildings, floor space becomes critical and more expensive,” Buley says. “Floors are being made out of special composite; covered with different material; mezzanines; computer floors that allow only certain floor loads; and more.”

“We experienced tremendous year-over-year growth on our entire Genie Runabout family in 2010,” says Jeff Weido, senior product manager, Terex AWP. “Feedback from our customers has been that they wanted to differentiate themselves in the aerial rental marketplace, especially with such competitive rates on 19-foot scissorlifts. We also have heard from our customers that the demand for lighter floor- loading aerial work platforms has been a growing trend in certain commercial construction applications such as hospitals and office buildings.”

Because this is a relatively new segment of access equipment, the potential for rental businesses that add them to their fleet mix is still growing and developing. As evidence, several manufacturers pointed to the number of new low-level AWP introductions to the market just in the past year.

The compact nature of the low-level machines make them small enough to fit several on a jobsite, allowing multiple contractors to work simultaneously side by side, and applications include everything from HVAC installation and maintenance, plumbing, fire sprinkler work, suspended ceiling and AV systems installation, drywall, painters, electricians, and other maintenance work.

“The boom and scissor market is where everyone is competing with each other, offering the same products, running the rates down, creating more supply than demand,” says Buley. “But what rental companies should be looking for are ‘nicheଁ and ‘specialization’ applications to replace the lightweight scaffold tower and the small to medium stepladder, which will mean less competition and new areas to explore for higher revenues.”

Additionally, these units provide a significant productivity and safety advantage over scaffolding and ladders. Unlike scaffolding, which requires advance set-up and assembly and offers zero maneuverability, low-level access equipment arrives onsite ready to work and is generally compact enough to fit through narrow doorways, into elevators and even to make tight turns around sharp bends in hallways. In addition, there are no parts to get misplaced and lost from jobsite to jobsite. These units offer a safer alternative to ladders by providing the comfort and security of a fully guarded work area and the convenience of being able to easily lift tools and equipment precisely to the working height required from ground level.

“Powered low-level access is especially beneficial where there is repetitive work at height,” says Paul Kreutzwiser, senior product marketing manager, Skyjack Inc. “The SJ12 is drivable at full height, allowing the operator to quickly reposition to continue work without having to lower, reposition, then lift/climb.”

An independent time and motion study conducted in the United Kingdom by Laing O’Rourke, a major construction contractor in Europe and the Middle East, and cited by Snorkel’s Smith, showed that low-level AWPs were up to three times more productive than ladders or podiums, and that the rental rate for a low-level AWP was more than balanced by the reduction in accident claims and worker hours lost from injury, plus the costs of replacing lost pieces of scaffolding.

“The U.S. has always led the way in the adoption of more efficient and safer working at height,” says Snorkel’s Smith. “Pop-Up is unique in that it originated in the U.K., but we expect the U.S.A. to be Pop-Up’s biggest market. This is a low-cost, high-yield machine that can deliver full ROI in less than 12 months and will undoubtedly be popular with major construction contractors.”

The productivity increases that contractors can achieve with low-level AWPs are undeniable. Most units have a platform large enough to support both the operator and several tools and materials needed for the job. Unlike ladders and scaffolding, the need for trips up and down to retrieve additional items is nearly eliminated.

“A rental business should consider replacing some of their current ladders and scaffolding because they can ‘sell’ time to the renter,” says Steve Gooding, director of marketing and aftermarket support, Haulotte Group. “The additional time it takes to assemble scaffolding and the ups and downs with a ladder are eliminated with the LiteRiser 10SP. This reduces what could potentially take days with a ladder to mere hours. This also increases the number of times the rental company could rent out the machine, increasing ROI.”

Always safety first

According to an internal study conducted by JLG Industries when it was developing its low-level AWP LiftPod Series, more than 90 percent of facility managers and building owners said safety was “very important” when selecting facility maintenance equipment. Safety was also the most important criteria decision makers used to evaluate new equipment – factors that bode well for the growth of low-level access equipment.

“Safety is a top priority in the workplace as companies are seeking new ways to increase productivity while helping keep safety costs down,” says Randy Marzicola, director channel development, JLG Industries. “OSHA’s most frequent violations for 2010 involve scaffolding, fall protection and ladders. In fact, the National Safety Council has estimated that the average per incident cost of a workplace injury is about $28,000 in direct and indirect costs. The LiftPod is designed to replace ladders/scaffolding and can help facility managers avoid potentially deadly falls from height while on the job.”

Like any work at height, operator training is necessary to ensure safe use. Low-level scissor-category lifts do not require personal fall protection as long as they are fully guarded with a rail, according to Tony Groat, executive vice president for American Work Platform Training. A newly published document jointly produced by The American Rental Association, Association of Equipment Manufacturers, Associated Equipment Distributors, the International Powered Access Federation and the Scaffold Industry Association fully outlines the proper use and regulatory compliance of AWP personal fall protection. It states that manually propelled elevating aerial platforms as well as self-propelled elevating work platforms do not require additional PFP as long as a full guardrail is in place. The document, Statement of Best Practices of Personal Fall Protection Systems for Aerial Work Platform Equipmehnt, is available for download at www.ipaf.org.

“Work at height is a demand for all work environments and industries, and these smaller machines provide a safer and more efficient means of access,” says Groat. “Ladders require climbing and do not keep the workers in a safe envelope. Workers can overreach and fall. These falls can be serious in nature despite their low height. Scaffolds require many pieces, time to assemble and climbing. These low-access machines provide infinite adjustment in height and a fully guarded railed platform.”

Inspired as a reinvention of the ladder, low-level AWPs are designed to provide a safer, more productive means to work at height. The machines offer a quick ROI for rental businesses and a more productive jobsite for their customers.

JLG Industries

The FS60 is the newest addition to the LiftPod line of aerial work platforms. The unit’s 30-inch base enables operators to move the LiftPod through doorways and some elevators without having to take it apart. With an enclosed platform, 12-foot working height and 6-foot standing height, the FS60LiftPod allows workers to move hands-free in a 360-degree range of motion. Like other units in the line, the FS60 consists of three lightweight components, each weighing about 50 pounds, for assembly in about 30 seconds. The LiftPod is powered by an 18-volt drill or an optional power pack. It includes an attachable work tray that holds up to 33 pounds of tools and materials and has a 330-pound rated total capacity.

“We listened to our customers and developed the FS60 in response to their requests for a model that can fit through doorways and under eight-foot ceilings,” says Marzicola. “We also added non-marking rear caster wheels, which further improves the mobility and portability of the lift, while increasing efficiency for our customers to provide a solution for applications in healthcare, education, hospitality and office building markets.”

Skyjack

The SJ 12 self-propelled vertical mastlift provides an 18-foot working height, high-degree steer angle and zero inside turning radius. A 20-inch traversing platform offers increased access and the ability to reach over potential obstacles. A slide-away platform provides easy access to components when raised or in the stowed position. The SJ 12 is drivable at full height and weighs 1,720 pounds for use in sensitive floor load applications.

“The rental industry has higher expectations for the robustness and quality of the equipment in their fleets – a rental-duty type machine,” explains Kreutzwiser. “Skyjack covers this well, bringing its renowned design philosophies to the SJ 12 utilizing its standard color-coded and numbered wiring system and analog-based controls as well as service and maintenance friendly design.”

Absolute E-Z Up

The new CAWP-9.6 AWP, debuted at The Rental Show, features a maximum working height of 16 feet and offers 397 pounds of unrestricted capacity on its dual extension decks. The unit can be maneuvered and transported by one operator, but it is intended for two-person occupancy. The CAWP-9.6 offers 35-percent gradeability and its twin 12-volt batteries ensure more than 250 lift cycles or a drive distance of seven miles. Batteries can be recharged in a few hours using the on-board charger. At 1,212 pounds, the CAWP-9.6 has a low rolling tire floor load and is designed for use on a variety of floor surfaces.

“The CAWP-9.6 is a more robust construction-type model, made for the harshest and toughest construction sites,” says Buley. “It features an all-steel base with forklift pockets for easy loading or transport.”

Haulotte Group

The new LiteRiser 10 SP is a lightweight, compact 16-foot maximum working height AWP designed for maintenance or construction applications. With a full-length platform, a simple-to-use, smooth drive control system, and zero-degree inside turning radius, the LiteRiser 10 SP is designed as a versatile solution for rental fleets. Measuring 5 feet, 9 inches long and 2 feet, 8 inches in width, it can travel through a standard doorway.

“The LiteRiser 10 SP and similar machines have great potential in the rental market,” says Gooding. “Its simple controls, lightweight, easy transportability and elevator accessibility allow this machine access into places that traditional scissorlifts, scaffolding and ladders are not able to access as easily. With this machine’s ability to be driven while in the basket, productivity is increased with reduced time moving from place to place where work needs done.”

Custom Equipment

The HB-830 and HB-P830 Push-Around Hy-Brid Lifts feature zero-turning radius, a 14-foot working height and a 500-pound platform capacity for high-productivity access in office buildings, hospitals and hotels. Standard features include an integrated battery charger with charge-level indicator, decent and tilt alarms, emergency tops, remote raise/lower control station, key operated on/off switch and automatic pothole protection.

“The new 830s have an expanded market due to their extreme maneuverability,” says Justin Kissinger, Custom Equipment marketing and advertising manager. “The HB-830 can go in more confined places than most AWPs on the market such as the ability to go down a hallway and turn into the office or to be able to get into a jail cell for maintenance.”

Terex AWP

The Genie Runabout is a compact, low-weight machine that is fully drivable when fully elevated for improved productivity. Designed to fit inside most passenger elevators and to be driven through doorways with the operator onboard, Genie Runabout models feature a zero inside turning radius, 30-percent gradeability, a spring-applied hydraulically released brake system and non-marking solid rubber tires. Platform heights range from 11 feet, 5 inches to 19 feet, 11 inches, and lift capacities range from 350 to 500 pounds.

“Genie Runabouts offer single-door access and zero set-up time for the user,” says Weido. “They also feature an industry-leading low step-in height of 15.5 inches.”

Operator training is necessary to ensure safe use of low-level personal lifts, but personal fall protection is not required as long as the platform is fully guarded with a rail.

Snorkel

New to the U.S. market, the Pop-Up PUSH Series scissorlifts are designed with the safety and productivity benefits of push-around lifts. With platform heights from 6, 8 and 10 feet, the lightweight PUSH Series was developed through feedback from contractors to ensure it can withstand tough jobsites. Pop-Ups do not require stabilizers and are available with auto-lock casters, which apply the brakes as soon as the machine starts to lift.

“The majority of Pop-Ups are sold to rental companies, some of whom reported a return on investment in the first year of ownership,” explains Smith. “The benefits of using push-around mastlifts are already understood; the Pop-Up range brings the same safety and productivity benefits to lower level access.”

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Pop Up Product’s stand was packed with new equipment: most prominent were the Pop Up Drive Pro 12 and the Pop Up Drive 10 Eco.

New for the EHS, the Pop Up DRIVE 12 Pro is the first mast lift in the Pop Up range manufactured in cooperation with Snorkel, this is also the first Pop Up rated for outdoor use and the first that can lift two people. Pop Up expects to launch additions to the DRIVE Pro series towards the end of 2011.

The production version of the Pop Up DRIVE 10 Eco made its world debut at the EHS. The Pop Up DRIVE 10 Eco provides a platform height of 3m and a safe working load of 140kg, but weighs only 495kg.

The company now offers five push-around lifts in the Pop Up PUSH series and two self-propelled lifts in the Pop Up DRIVE series. It has also re-branded its Eiger range of podium and tower scaffold as Pop Up.

Until now the Pop Up brand has only been applied to its highly successful push-around scissor lift range to the point where some users call all such products Pop Ups.

Pop Up’s principal product the Pop Up Push

Today the company is announcing the addition of a Pop Up branded TM12 – the 12ft self-propelled mast type lift introduced by UpRight back in 1994 and now sold as the Snorkel TM12. In Pop Up guise it will be known as the Drive 12.

At the same time Pop Up Products, which also manufactures Aluminium Towers, will add a new 1.2 metre platform height podium step and aluminium tower to the Pop Up branded product range.

The all-new Pop Up Podium has been designed to exceed the new stability standards and features fixed castors to provide a stable platform prevent ‘surfing’ – moving from the platform.

The Pop Up Tower is the new name for the popular Eiger 500 Tower System,a Class 3 heavy duty, lightweight aluminium tower with automatic platform wind lock and colour-coded braces it is available in double-width 1.45 metres and single-width 850mm formats, with working heights up to 14.2 metres internally and 10.2 metres outdoors.

Nigel Woodger, managing director of Pop Up Products said: “We felt that Pop Up has become such a strong brand that we should extend it to cover all our products. Our aluminium products have the same qualities as our lifts, because they are designed from the ground up with the end user in mind.” http://www.vertikal.net/en/news/story/11702/

Reaching the (not so) highs and lows…

Over the past five years, the ‘push around scissor lift’ market has gone from concept to an established and blossoming sector. In its short history it has developed from a niche to mainstream product satisfying the increasing demand for a simple, low level access product. We take a look at its development, the increasing number of players in the market, along with the advantages and benefits that this type of product can bring.

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The new units, first seen at this year’s Executive Hire Show, are being built at Snorkel’s production facility, in Tyneside in North East England.

Pop- Up scissor lifts have until now been produced in China but the company’s global agreement with Snorkel includes the transfer of responsibility for the on-going design and production of Pop Up products, including the new Push6, Push8 and Push10.

The two companies say that they are also working together on other developments, with the aim of creating the first truly global brand in low-level and personal access solutions.

The new Push range builds on the success of the original Pop Up and Pop Up+ push-around scissor lifts, of which more than 6,000 units have been sold. The original models are still available as a lower cost alternative to the Push range.

The new models have a lift capacity of 240kgs, are 700mm wide and weigh as little as 275kgs. The key changes on the Push models include:

Stronger, more robust box section scissor stack, a slide out component tray for quick and easy maintenance, larger and more durable castors, auto-locking brakes as standard – no need for outriggers, 10ft (3m) platform height version added to range, one touch emergency lowering , fixed control box and a platform-mounted battery condition indicator.

Richard Tindale, sales & marketing director for Snorkel, said: “The state-of-the-art Push series is the first fruit of our agreement with Pop Up Products, signed earlier this year. Working together, we are delivering a great range of push-around lifts, targeted specifically at contractors and hire companies. Push combines the best elements of Pop Up with Snorkel’s ethos of engineering effective, durable machines that are easy to maintain.”

Nigel Woodger, managing director of Pop Up Products added: “We are absolutely delighted with the Pop Up Push series, which meets our customers’ needs and helps maintain our position as the market leader in push-around scissor lifts. The production move demonstrates the strength of the relationship between Pop Up and Snorkel – and there is a lot more to come from our collaboration.”

The company will be responsible for sales into the end user market of both the Pop Up and Pop Up+ push-around scissor lifts. Leach Lewis will also offer the new Pop Up PUSH series when it goes into production later this year. Pop Up Products Ltd is the UK national distributor.

Snorkel owns the global licence to market Pop Up lifts and is working in partnership with Pop Up Products on a new generation of machines. It is also building a new global dealer network.

Nigel Woodger, managing director of Pop Up Products said: “We have successfully targeted the major equipment rental companies with Pop Up over the past four years. This partnership with Leach Lewis will develop further new sales channels for Pop Up, particularly to end users.”

Leach Lewis already has a fully trained specialist low level access sales and customer support team. The company has also invested in demonstration models to assist in developing new sales opportunities. The company will be supported by Pop Up’s product manager and the nationwide spare parts service already provided by IPS.

Peter Whittall, managing director of Leach Lewis said: “Pop Up will enhance our industrial product range of access and materials handling equipment.

This partnership with Pop Up is part of our ongoing strategy to provide our customers with the highest quality e quipment. We are investing in a large demo fleet to show all our customers how these machines can add value to their business.