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NEWS Accès Industrie new ownership, Loxam enters Italy, CTE & France Elevateur form German alliance, IAPA awards open for entries, Isoli expands in the Philippines, Custers crawler launch. INTERVIEW: AFI AFI acquired Kimberly Access earlier this year, making it the biggest specialist access equipment rental company in the UK. Its business development director, and recently inaugurated IPAF president, Nick Selley, talks to AI about the consolidation phase the access industry is going through. IAPA AWARDS Now in its tenth year, the International Awards for Powered Access (IAPAs) will be held in Miami, USA on 8 March 2018. Th ere have been a couple of changes to this year’s award category list. Make sure you take part in what has become one of the industry’s biggest annual events. TRACKED PLATFORMS In many ways the tracked platform sector is leading the way in technology and emission-free working. There has also been a few movements in the sector over the last 18 months, with acquisitions and the inevitable move towards even more compact, quiet machines. INTERVIEW: TEUPEN Martin Borutta took up the reins as the new CEO of Teupen in recent months. He spoke with Euan Youdale about the future of the company and the tracked platform sector. REGIONAL REPORT: AFRICA Africa is a diverse continent and for access equipment sales the story is no less wide-ranging. It is denoted by greater activity in the north and south, with less progress in the vast central area. AI takes a look at the opportunities this huge land mass is off ering. NEWS The regular round-up of news from the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF), including Pierre Saubot’s enlightening presentation at the Europlatform conference in September. EXHIBITION NEWS AI rounds-up the new and latest products from the specialist access equipment exhibitions of late, including Platformers Days in Germany and GIS in Italy.