LLEAP AWARDS 2025
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Lifting Tech Trailblazers
Innovative designs and advanced technology transforming lifting and aerial operations
By Maggie MacHale
The 2025 Leadership in Lifting Equipment and Aerial Platforms( LLEAP) Awards spotlight modern innovations shaping the lifting and aerial equipment landscape. This year’ s finalists demonstrate notable progress in safety, operational efficiency and digital integration, providing tools that enable operators, project managers, owners and rental companies to work smarter, faster and safer.
Highlighting advancements made over the past year, the awards focus on new equipment, support products and services that have entered the North American market between June 1, 2024, and May 31, 2025. Submissions were organized into four categories: aftermarket support products and services, features and components, material handlers and mobile elevated work platforms( MEWPs).
This year, there were an astounding 23 entries from 16 companies that competed for recognition. Judges evaluated each entry for innovation, practical value, productivity gains and overall benefit to the industry. This year’ s applicants reflect a range of solutions designed to meet the evolving challenges of modern jobsites, from advanced boom lifts and telescopic telehandlers to modular support systems and integrated management software.
The 2025 LLEAP Awards celebrate the ingenuity and dedication behind these innovations, highlighting the tools redefining what’ s possible in lifting and aerial platforms. Congratulations to all of this year’ s winners!
12 l November-December 2025