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The economic slowdown in Turkey--and the devaluation of its currency--has had a significant impact on the country's access rental sector. Euan Youdale, Editor of IRN's sister title Access International, reports [...]

The European rental market is a vibrant and highly-active one, which is growing at a healthy rate each year. The European Rental Association (ERA), for one, recently pointed to growth [...]

For many large rental companies operating in mature markets such as Europe or America, a revenues growth of 5% year-on-year would be warmly welcomed. In the Middle East, however, that [...]

Dewatering pump manufacturers are reporting increasing demand from the rental sector, with more companies now entering the rental market themselves. IRN tests the water. There has been plenty of news [...]

Economic recoveries are always uncertain, and that is certainly the case in North America and Europe today. So much so that projections of rental growth beyond 2011 need to be [...]

It is just as well that preparations for the Shanghai Expo produced a surge in demand for rental equipment--aerial platforms in particular--because Tomie Chan, Haulotte Group's general manager for North [...]

If you think you've seen everything at Bauma then you need to take another look. Of course, seeing everything properly is just not possible, unless you feel like making 428 [...]

There were very few major European and North American rental companies that weren't cutting costs and (in some cases) closing depots towards the end of 2008 as the world economic [...]

There is no getting around the fact--if you bring a new machine in and don't want to change fleet size, you've got to take one out, too. How you plan [...]

One of the many fascinating aspects of the Japanese equipment rental market is watching how the big players wrestle with the challenges of operating in an already highly developed, competitive [...]

Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water. Jaffar Hussein If you are reading this article, and your rental company has run out [...]

It is very easy to say that equipment rental is a growing global industry, that it is spreading to new parts of the world. Too easy, perhaps. In reality, establishing [...]

In the boom times of the late 1990s and the up to 2008, the equipment rental industry saw an unprecedented amount of investment from private equity firms. This included investments [...]

Geared towards rental companies, compaction equipment is getting smarter. The emphasis is now on battery-powered products, which have a runtime of over an hour. Charging time is also reducing.In fact, [...]

Ausa will not be the only manufacturer in the world that has reinvented itself over the past three years, but few can have had quite the same challenges as the [...]

Norty Turner is two years into his stint as vice president and general manager of Hertz Equipment Rental Corp (HERC) in Europe. Sitting at his desk in the new HERC [...]

Even though many types of surface preparation equipment are available, they're all designed to perform a similar task: remove an existing coating and prepare the surface for a new one. [...]

It is appropriate that a conference with the theme 'New Opportunities in Rental' should take place in the Czech Republic, since it is central and eastern Europe that is seen [...]

Engine maker Deutz has announced that Shanghai Horizon Equipment, China's largest equipment rental business, will become its service and aftermarket partner for the Chinese market. The deal is part of [...]

The rental of construction equipment has experienced a period of strong, sustained growth to become a critical element of the European construction culture. The growth of this industry is all [...]

Concrete pumps occupy a particular place in the rental sector, not least because they are often highly expensive items that require a trained operator to use them. So it is [...]

It can't be easy being a rental company in Spain at the moment. The country's much publicised recession--particularly in housing--has made it the European 'exemplar' for the current economic malaise. [...]

To understand consolidation it is useful to learn from the experiences of the consolidation of the US and Scandinavian rental markets. The US market is interesting because it is the [...]

There's a lot going on at even the smallest rental company: equipment coming and going, sales calls being made, orders taken, machines being repaired and contracts signed. Measuring and monitoring [...]

Today at RSC return on investment (RoI) is growing very rapidly; time utilisation is approaching 70%; and our EBITDA margin is approaching 40%, a level we have never seen before [...]

Retail and auction used equipment values for heavy earthmoving equipment have shown softness over the past couple months.This has been driven primarily by performance of the dozers and wheeled loaders. [...]

Conditions in the European rental market remain healthy, with expectations of growth apparent, despite a degree of cautiousness, according to the third-quarter ERA/ IRN RentalTracker.With almost 140 participants in the [...]

The European equipment rental market will grow by 3.7% this year followed by a 3.4% increase in 2019, according to the just-published Market Report 2018 from the European Rental Association [...]

Retail and auction used equipment values for heavy earthmoving equipment have showed softness over the past couple months. This has been driven primarily by performance of the dozers and wheeled [...]

Senior figures from companies including Boels Rental, Caterpillar, Byrne Equipment Rental, Genie and Riwal are in the line-up for the sixth International Rental Conference (IRC) in Shanghai, China on 26 [...]

Customers of the future will be the focus at this year's European Rental Association (ERA) Convention, which will be held from 23-24 May in Austria, Vienna. Located at the Hotel [...]

The last time the US rental industry was faced with a recession it was shallow and relatively brief--March to November 2001--and it came on the heels of the longest period [...]

Construction equipment rental company and distributor Mtandt used the bC India Exhibition in December to introduce a range of materials handling equipment to the Indian market. Its stand at the [...]

Scot Industrial Air (SIA), a Scot JCB Group company, has appointed David Kerr as its generator sales manager, following a longstanding career in the equipment rental sector. Kerr will be [...]

Saudi Arabia-based rental manager Adel A. Fattah is looking for new challenges since leaving Byrne Equipment Rental in mid-February. Mr. Fattah has extensive rental experience in the Middle East, having [...]

One of the first equipment rental companies in Georgia--Georent has--ambitions to develop the local rental market for light equipment and longer term to enter the adjacent markets of Armenia and [...]

US-based trench and traffic equipment rental specialists National Trench Safety (NTS) has added to its operations with the opening of a new branch in Boston, Massachusetts. The company recently announced [...]

US rental company Herc Rentals is aiming to consolidate its business processes and gain flexibility in its equipment rental services with the implementation of Infor CloudSuite Equipment Rental and Infor [...]

Equipment rental in the US is expected to top US$56 billion (52.28 billion [euro]) by 2020, according to the American Rental Association (ARA), representing an increase on its November 2016 [...]

* US equipment rental holding company Rental Equipment Investment Corp (REIC) has acquired all the assets of Columbia River Machinery (CRM), along with certain liabilities, the company has confirmed. CRM [...]

US-based trench and traffic equipment rental specialists National Trench Safety (NTS) has opened a new branch in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cleveland branch takes the company's total branch operation to 29, [...]

A Chilean company has established an online equipment rental portal that aims to improve the efficiency of the rental market. The company, Maquinarias Online, now aims to expand its operation [...]

Kiloutou has acquired Alvecon, a scaffolding and equipment rental specialist in the Navarre and the Basque regions of Spain, with three locations and 40 employees. The price was not declared. [...]

* US-based TGM Wind has introduced a new equipment rental venture--Kardie Equipment. The rental division will specialise in providing large aerial work platform equipment, such as Bronto Skylifts, and also [...]

* Start-up US equipment rental holding company Rental Equipment Investment Corp plans to continue to consolidate presence in US North West in 2016. CEO Mr Fitzgerald told IRN, 'Currently, there [...]

US-based Rental Equipment Investment Corp (REIC) has acquired Hillside Rental, an equipment rental company based in Evans, Colorado, US. REIC is an equipment rental holding company that was established in [...]

French rental company Kiloutou has acquired Aquiloc, a general equipment rental company in South West France. Aquiloc has 23 branches, including one in La Rochelle under the Aloutout brand, and [...]

Hertz Equipment Rental (HERC) franchisee Mongolia Holdings has invested in one of the country's largest road construction and earth moving companies--Monroad. In return, Monroad will receive a 49% stake in [...]

The European Rental Association has made some small revisions to its European rental growth estimates for 2013 and 2014, slightly increasing the current year estimate from 0.8% to 1.0% and [...]

Sustainability was a concept barely in the public consciousness twenty years ago but today it permeates discussion in nearly every aspect of our day-to-day lives. The majority of the business [...]