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UNIVERSAL CRANES AND GROUP ACQUIRES FIVE AT40 FRANNA’S
30 November 2021 WELCOMING FIVE NEW FRANNA’S TO DIVERSIFY PORTFOLIO The Terex Franna AT40 only entered the market in 2019 and Smithbridge Group as already purchased five AT40’...
UNIVERSAL CRANES APPOINTS BRISBANE OPERATIONS MANAGER – MATT MOLLER
24 November 2021 BRISBANE OPERATIONS MANAGER ANNOUNCEMENT Last week Brisbane Branch Manager Ben Smith announced the appointment of Matt Moller into the Brisbane Operations Manager rol...
Universal Cranes General Manager Announces Restructure of Brisbane Management Team
22 December 2020 A CHANGE IN UNIVERSAL CRANES BRISBANE MANAGEMENT TEAM SETS THE BUSINESS UP FOR SUCCESS IN 2021 AND BEYOND Last week, Universal Cranes General Manager, Mark ...
Group Managing Director announces changes to Group organisational structure
01 June 2020Ongoing generational transition drives key executive team changes Last week Group Managing Director Albert Smith announced changes to the Smithbridge Group organisation...
Universal Cranes COVID-19 Response and Action Plan
20 April 2020Early action undertaken to minimise exposure risk and control spread Universal Cranes was quick to respond to the COVID-19 situation by implementing several initiatives ...
UNIVERSAL CRANES DECADE IN REVIEW
03 March 2020With the start of a new decade, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past ten years in the life of Universal Cranes. Check it out below: We expande...
Universal Cranes wins at the 2019 Crane Industry Council of Australia Awards
04 November 2019Universal Cranes won the Photo of the Year award at the Crane Industry Council of Australia’s 2019 Lift of the Year Awards. The North Queensland team submitted a photogra...
Universal MiniCranes visits QLD Community Kindy
18 June 2019In conjunction with CICA's community engagement program, our team from Universal MiniCranes recently visited a number of excited children at a QLD Community Kin...
CICA Awards 2018 – Universal Cranes takes home six honours!
23 October 2018Winners are grinners at this year’s Crane Industry Council of Australia (CICA) Lift of the Year Awards! Our team took home an incredible haul of SIX awards last week inc...
Spotlight on Logan Uniting Soccer Club
04 July 2018Last month Universal Cranes was honoured to help Logan Uniting Church Soccer Club with a lift to support their lighting upgrade project. The Club’s field at Calvary Chris...
Ballina fleet grows for Pacific Highway upgrade
15 March 2018Universal Cranes’ Ballina branch has expanded its local fleet and upgraded the Tyndale depot to support the ongoing Pacific Highway upgrade activity in the region. Two b...