Lifting Gear Hire Corporation expands Houston, Texas warehouse
and adds new testing equipment to facility

February 13, 2006 – Houston, Texas – Worldwide lifting solvers Lifting Gear Hire Corporation are tripling the size of their Houston, Texas warehouse, turning it into a fully functioning rental and sales facility. The expanded building is planned to be 35,000 square feet in size with a 20,000 square foot yard. A 350 ton horizontal pull test bed will be housed at the site, allowing for the testing of LGH rental gear and the maintenance of customer equipment. The location will also include a 25 ton vertical hoist test stand.

Over one million dollars of equipment will be stocked and rented from this newly revamped warehouse. Prior to the expansion, the Houston facility only housed LGH’s MaxiBar line.

“The demand for products in the LGH product line, as well as the MaxiBar product, has resulted in the need for a larger warehouse to store existing MaxiBar equipment and to stock a full range of LGH products and capacities,” explained Tony Fiscelli, General Manager of Lifting Gear Hire Corporation’s U.S. Headquarters, located in Bridgeview, Illinois. “The expansion of the Houston facility will allow us to better serve our clients because we will simply have the space to feature our entire product range and to accommodate our customers' equipment service needs.”

The Houston warehouse will continue to be the main USA storage area for Lifting Gear Hire Modular Lifting Beams, including the new 600 ton capacity model. Three overhead crane bays will be installed to handle large MaxiBar / Modular Lifting Beams and other oversized equipment.

“We are excited about the expansion of the Houston facility and look forward to being able to better serve all of our clients from this centralized warehouse,” stated Customer Service Manager, David McKenzie. “The expansion and increased business volume will also create more jobs in the Houston area, so it is a beneficial endeavor all-around.”

Lifting Gear Hire Corporation, a subsidiary of LGH Group plc, specializes in the rental, sales, service, inspection and testing of lifting and winching equipment.

LGH stocks over 80,000 pieces of lifting, pulling, jacking and rigging equipment available for rental through its worldwide locations, which encompass The United States, UK, Holland and Germany. For more information about the Lifting Gear Hire Corporation, visit their website at http://www.lgh-usa.com.