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020 was the year of the pandemic. Factories went into lockdown, construction projects were put on hold and manufacturing tried to
continue with workforces socially distanced and everyone staying two metres apart. On top of that hung the further prospect of Brexit, postponed but always pending, with effects unknown and impossible to plan for. Brexit arrived at last on the first day of 2021, but with its effects still largely unclarified
and unknown. For the lifting industry, as for so many others the combination made a perfect storm. Very obviously the year has been somewhere between bad and catastrophic for anyone trying to manufacture or sell or install hoists and lifting gear anywhere in the UK; and with the pandemic still with us, and lockdowns re-introduced, the prospects for 2021 seem gloomy. That last sentence beginning ‘Very
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2020 was a year like no other. The pandemic and the prospect of Brexit between them made it a year to remember, though perhaps not for the right reasons. Julian Champkin looks at how the UK lifting market weathered the storm and how it is looking forward to 2021.
obviously’ seems a logical conclusion, but it is wrong. Facts, and the experiences of those at the frontline, paint a quite different story. 2020 for many was a good year and for some was a very good, almost record- breaking, year. “2020 was difficult” concedes Mark Hadfield, marketing manager of Derbyshire-based Street Crane. “From the start of lockdown in March there were so many uncertainties surrounding
R A Street crane at Ibstock brick makers in Leicester 22 | February 2021 |
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