LGH News

LGH strengthens its UK sales team with the appointment of Johnpaul Hemming as Business Development Manager. Tasked with driving new business in the Midlands, Johnpaul will also contribute his expertise to the wider sales team. We recently had the opportunity to sit down with Johnpaul for a Q&A session. Here is a glimpse of what […]

LGH & Rotrex Group has appointed Russell Boswell-Munday as LGH’s new Sales Director for Europe and the UK. Russell has over 25 years’ of experience in the hire industry and has managed various sales teams during his career. As well as Russell’s appointment, the group has also announced other changes to the Board. In his […]

LGH (Lifting Gear Hire Ltd) proudly announces its recent Constructionline Gold accreditation, underscoring the company’s unwavering commitment to delivering the highest quality services and equipment in the construction sector. The accreditation reaffirms its status as a trusted partner for main contractors.   Constructionline, the UK’s largest pre-qualification database, is a leading procurement and supply chain […]

A survey in partnership with HOIST magazine Survey: Will there always be a place for manual chain hoists?   More than half of people who use a manual chain hoist expect to be still using one of some description in more than 20 years from now.  That’s according to an online survey carried out on […]

Extracted from the April issue of HOIST magazine Manual Power In a world full of automation and tech, it’s the simplest solutions that are often the best. Two companies – one manufacturer and one rental firm – make the case for manual chain hoists. Tony Rock reports.   LGH is a UK-based lifting equipment rental […]

LGH, one of the UK’s leading lifting equipment hire companies, has announced that it is increasing its operations in Scotland after securing an agreement with sister company, Rotrex, to use its base in Motherwell as a distribution centre. The news follows a sharp spike in demand for lifting equipment across the central belt of Scotland […]

LGH, one of the UK’s leading lifting equipment hire companies, has launched its new e-Commerce website that allows customers to rent from its wide range of equipment wherever and whenever they want, with a guaranteed next day delivery direct to any site in the UK. It is another step change for LGH as it continues […]

LGH, one of the UK’s leading lifting equipment rental companies, has further ramped up its capability in the infrastructure and construction rental market by investing in high capacity Hi-Force 520t hydraulic cylinders.   The low height, lock ring, single-acting cylinders are primarily aimed at the bridge building and repair sector but will also augment their […]

In Germany, many infrastructural works are currently under way. We are contributing to this with our equipment and expertise. This is also the case in Hamburg where our customer Thömen Spedition GmbH & Co. KG was given the challenge of installing a temporary pedestrian bridge. The Berliner Tor metro and railway station in Hamburg has […]

Recently we received an assignment from Bruns Schwerlast to support them with a spreading solution for the installation of a 50m long and 30t heavy drain from the company Hydro-Wacht. The challenge was to fulfil the following requirements: The entire culvert needed to be attached to at least seven lifting points and we had a […]