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Klimer purchases Valco Scaffold Inc.

May 19, 2011 Milton ON - Klimer Platforms Inc. today announced the acquisition of Valco Scaffold of Canton, Ohio. Valco Scaffold will now operate under the name of Klimer Platforms, Ltd., with its Ohio and North Carolina locations continuing to operate at full capacity. Key management and staff will remain the same.

Valco will continue to sell and support existing product lines with the addition of a full range of Klimer mast climbing and transport platform products.

“Our focus has always been to provide the most efficient access equipment and job site support,” said Jay Gordon, president of Klimer Platforms. “This alliance allows us to be even more effective in delivering these benefits to our clients.”

Ray Valentine, of Valco Scaffold added, “We have had a long, successful business relationship and friendship with Klimer, and this purchase will make a stronger mast climber company. We intend to offer the same high level of service and expand the mast climber, material platform business to better service our customers.”

Klimer’s previous working relationship with Valco as distributor for Klimer’s mast climbing work platforms provides a solid foundation for this transition.

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St. John Harbour Bridge piers positioned in a cresting river presented unique challenges. Alternative Concrete Technologies (ACT) use Klimer mast-climbing work platforms to overcome these challenges.

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New ANSI Transport Platform Standard Approved

Scaffold Industry Association Press Release, October 16, 2009

American National Standards Institute Approves New Standard

The Scaffold Industry Association announces approval of the new standard ANSI/SIA A92.10-2009.

ANSI/SIA A92.10-2009 Transport Platforms was approved by the ANSI Board of Standards Review on October 9, 2009. Visit www.scaffold.org for the latest updates on the new standard.

The SIA would like to thank members of the ASC A92 Main Committee and the A92.10 subcommittee of all the hard work, time, and dedication to developing a standard to ensure safe practices of transport platforms. We applaud your continued support!

The SIA serves as an ANSI-Accredited Standards Developer for the A92 Aerial Work Platform series of standards. To learn more about the A92 series of publications, or other ANSI issues, please contact Emily Bannwarth, A92 Secretariat, at (816) 595.4860 or emily@scaffold.org.

About the SIA
The Scaffold Industry Association (SIA) is a non-profit trade 501(c)(6) association committed to raising the standards of professionalism within the scaffold and access industry. The SIA represents all facets of the scaffold & access industry through various councils that include, aerial work platform, construction hoist, fall protection equipment, international, industrial, mast climbing, plank and platform, supported scaffold and suspended scaffold. Through its various programs, the SIA promotes safety, training and a highly professional, responsible image of the scaffold and access industry. The SIA delivers hundreds of safety training programs a year at various locations throughout the world. These programs cover all aspects of scaffold and access safety and equipment use. The SIA is also the secretariat for the American National Standard, ASC A92 standards. For more information, call (816) 595.4860 or visit them at www.scaffold.org.

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