Caledonian liquidates

Caledonian liquidates

Caledonian Plant Maintenance also trading as Caledonian Access, has entered a liquidation process, although its owner – John Stalker - has started again under a new name.

The new company registered on December 30th is UK Inspect Ltd, trading as Caledonian Access.
Employees of the old company were transferred to the new business as of January 17th with notice of the appointment posted yesterday. The liquidator is Meston Reid & Co, 12 Carden Place Aberdeen AB10 1UR. A creditors meeting has been called for February 8th.

Stalker and Caledonian have been in the Mini Crane and access repair markets since 1997 under the names Caledonian Plant Maintenance, Caledonian Cranes and Caledonian Access. All companies along with the new one are registered at the same Aberdeen address in Scotland.

The new company will continue to trade as Caledonian Access from the same three locations – Aberdeen and Glasgow in Scotland and Bradford in northern England. Access staff have transferred to the new company which will continue to focus on carrying out Through Examinations, service work and repairs.

The Crane business is now seperate and is likely to be transferred into a new business under the Scotia name.

The Caledonian Access web site still claims to offer IPAF training although the companies are no longer included in the register of IPAF members, nor are they IPAF approved training centres. Stalker says that the new business will not offering this service.

John Stalker told Vertikal.Net that the decision to place the company into liquidation was taken very reluctantly and driven by pressure from its bank. He added that there were very few trade creditors and that his aim is to make sure that those that had debts with the old company will be covered by the new business.