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In line with the Genie commitment to provide exceptional product to our customers, we ARE modernizing the product line look and feel.

What better way to launch the colossal Genie SX-180, the tallest Genie® self-propelled boom lift in the world, than by taking customers for a ride at Hire14

The Wheatstone LNG Project in the Pilbara Region, Western Australia is a $29 billion project. It comprises an offshore facility which will gather and partially process gas and then deliver via a 225 km trunkline to the onshore facilities at Ashburton North. Genie is supplying a very large inventory of boom and scissor lifts to the project.

Following the much publicized merger of New Zealand companies Hirepool and HireQuip in 2013, the New hirepool has set about expanding their hire fleet.

Genie seemed to be the name that everyone at HIRE14 kept hearing. Not only was the annual HRIA convention the official launch of the Genie SX-180 boom lift to the Hire and Rental industry in Australia and New Zealand, but Genie was recognised with the HRIA “Supplier of the Year – Access Division” award for the first time. Genie was also awarded Best Exhibitor
Stand – Outdoors.

The 2014 Genie Customer Appreciation night “Taking you Higher, 2014” proved to be the night of nights for the Australian and New Zealand Hire Industry.

In a company-wide initiative, Terex has declared 2014 as the Year of the Service Technician.

Welcome to another edition of the Blue News, the magazine for Genie customers throughout Australia and New Zealand.

The annual IAPA awards ceremony was held in Windsor near London, UK, on April 3rd and welcomed around 450 attendees this year - a record for the event. Among the fourteen winners to pick up their trophies, the Product of the Year Award in the Self- Propelled Boom category was handed to Matt Fearon, President, Terex AWP and Joe George, Vice President & Managing Director, Terex AWP EMEAR for the Genie SX-180 model that provides an outstanding 57 m (186 ft) of working...

GENIE 180-SX AUSTRALIAN RELEASE OF THE TALLEST GENIE® BOOM LIFT

The world’s tallest telescopic mobile boom, the Genie SX-180, made a big impression during its Australian debut at the Hire and Rental Industry Association Convention on the Gold Coast.

Boasting a platform height of 55m, the Genie SX-180 mobile boom outreaches its competitors by almost 10m. Terex subsidiary Genie Industries officially launched the machine, which has a horizontal reach of 24.4m and a lift capacity of 340kg, at bauma 2013 in Munich, Germany.

The revolutionary new Genie® SX-180 boom lift is set for its Australian debut on the Gold Coast at the annual HRIA Convention. The arrival of the very first production Genie SX-180 unit in Australia coincides perfectly with the national convention, with the Genie SX-180 self-propelled telescopic boom lift setting industry standards when it was launched in Europe in 2013, with a maximum platform height of 54.86 m (180 ft).