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Demand for lifting gear in the U.S has bounced back from the pandemic. Suppliers are doing their best to satisfy it, but with one or two small issues in their way. Julian Champkin reports.


nothing if not a force of disruption. What has it done to the hoist industry in America? Have manufacturers clung on


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isruptive times are generally considered challenges: businesses adapt or they die. The pandemic has been


by their fingertips, or have they managed to survive fairly reasonably? Or have they perhaps, in one or two cases, even flourished? The U.S has also had, of course, a change of administration. President Joe Biden, inaugurated in January 2021, is


now in the White House. Normally a new government with very different priorities, tax intentions and incentive programs would be the driving feature of any market-sentiment story at the start of a four-year term. This time round, it is more of a footnote.


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