Press Releases

After 40 years in the access platform industry, Rolf Kulawik, Managing Director of Ruthmann Holdings GmbH is retiring on June 30, 2022.

Versalift United Kingdom Limited, der marktführende Hersteller von Fahrzeug-Arbeitsbühnen, wird ab dem 1. April 2022 exklusiv die LKW-Arbeitsbühnen von Ruthmann in Großbritannien und der Republik Irland vertreiben.

The Parks Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main is convinced of the RUTHMANN Hybrid STEIGER® and is now the proud owner of four RUTHMANNSTEIGER® TBR 260 HV 5-Hybrid.

Just in time for the Platformers’ Days 2021 and around 2 months after the last innovation, RUTHMANN now announces the new STEIGER® T 330 XS with 33 meters working height to the trade visitors. With a length of 8.43 meters, the new working platform with the suffix XS is around 40 cm shorter than the previous STEIGER® T 330 and therefore the most compact and still the only 33-meter working platform on a 7.49 t chassis on the market. The new STEIGER® T 330 XS now reaches 21.75 meters outreach - almost 60 cm more than its predecessor.

After exciting months of development, the time has finally come: The working platform manufacturer RUTHMANN is presenting its BLUELIFT ST 31 at the Platformers‘ Days in Karlsruhe.

120 years ago, on 23rd March 1901, the RUTHMANN company was founded by Anton Ruthmann. What started as bicycle and sewing machine business is now one of the largest manufacturers of working platforms worldwide. A lot of has happened in the 120 years and each customer, supplier, employee or operator of the Ruthmann working platforms are part of this story.

EUROGRUAS ALGECIRAS is a leader in the southern Spanish market for cranes and access technologies. The company disposes of a large fleet of mobile and crawler cranes up to 800 tons as well as numerous working platforms for the industrial sector. Now, EUROGRUAS ALGECIRAS is also continuously expanding its truck-mounted working platform fleet: most recently with a RUTHMANNSTEIGER® T 750 HF.

The new RUTHMANN STEIGER® T 300 XS was presented for the first time in an online presentation.

On 19th March 2021, the IAPA Awards (International Awards of Powered Access) were conferred digitally for the first time. In the category “product of the year - vehicle-mounted”, the RUTHMANNSTEIGER® TB 300 won.

The sale of the Ruthmann Group to the US Time Manufacturing Company was successfully completed. In this context, a restructuring of the Ruthmann group of companies also took place.