Top Stories
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Red-D-Arc owner Airgas ponders second offer from Air Products
Airgas, Inc in the US, owner of Red-D-Arc Welderentals, has rejected an unsolicited acquisition proposal from Air Products & ...more
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United Rentals stems losses but conditions unchanged
United Rentals has managed to dramatically reduce its losses, reporting a US$26 million net loss for the final quarter of 200 ...more
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Manitou inventory sales helps final quarter figures
Manitou said it expected to see “mid to high single digit growth” in 2010 compared to 2009, although the first half of the ye ...more
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Masterpac to open European sales office
Compaction and light equipment manufacturer Masterpac is to establish a new European sales office in Paris, France on 1 March ...more
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Xtreme shows four new telehandlers at WoC
Xtreme introduces four new telehandlers - the XR630, XR621 low pivot, XR2050 and XR3034 - at the 2010 World of Concrete exhib ...more
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Hertz forms joint venture in Saudi Arabia
Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation (HERC) is to start renting equipment in Saudi Arabia through a joint venture with Saudi ba ...more
Equipment News
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Gehl adds two new telehandlers to product line
Gehl Co. has added two new telehandler models to its product line. ...more
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Hydro Mobile restructures, launches new products
Canadian mast climbing manufacturer Hydro Mobile has restructured under new owner, Quebec-based AGF Group. ...more
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Gehl launches articulated loaders in North America
Gehl Company is launching in North America three of the compact, articulated loaders that Gehl Europe has been selling for th ...more
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MEC introduces 40-foot boom
MEC Aerial Work Platforms has unveiled a new 46-ft (14 m) boom. ...more
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De Boer UK launches safety courses for customers
Temporary structure company De Boer is launching a series of specialist training courses for sub-contractors in the UK. ...more
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Simplex compressors keep Canadian ships moving
Montreal's Simplex rents 15 compressors to prevent water freezing in locks on the St Lawrence River ...more
Project News
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Acme Lift, H&E work together for Cowboys project
H&E Equipment, located in Grand Prairie, TX, recently supplied equipment with Acme Lift for a Dallas Cowboys stadium project. ...more
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Speedy Hire supports Manchester International Festival
Speedy Hire is supporting the Manchester International Festival by supplying free equipment, including generators, fencing an ...more
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Hewden helps make the music
Rental company Hewden in the UK provided more than 20 pieces of equipment to help events contractor, SJM Concerts, put on the ...more
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Atlas Copco Specialty Rental aids Italian earthquake relief
Atlas Copco Rent Service is providing equipment to assist rescue efforts in the Abruzzo region of Italy, struck by a devastat ...more
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Biggin Hill reaches for the sky
UK-based rental company Hewden has supplied REIDSteel with two 100-tonne mobile cranes, five 80-ft (24,38 m) mobile access pl ...more
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JCB excavator works on remote Scottish hydropower project
This JCB JS145 excavator is dragging a pipeline uphill as part of the construction of a hydro electric power scheme near Kinl ...more
Other News
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Who knows?
Speculating on the economic outlook for the western USA has become risky, if not impossible. It's even hard to plan ahead, Ha ...more
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WEBCAST: ERA/IRN RentalTracker survey
IRN Editor Murray Pollok has prepared a Webcast looking in detail at the results of the first ERA/IRN RentalTracker. ...more
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Volvo Rents dishes out laughs for a good cause
Volvo Rents has put together a comedy tour to support the construction industry and local food banks ...more
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Sunbelt Rentals now offers regularly scheduled training
Train the Trainer courses and operator training are now available for Sunbelt Rental customers ...more
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AmQuip hires Holmes, Adolt
AmQuip announces two new managers to its team. ...more
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ACME Lift appoints chairman of board
One of North America’s largest construction equipment re-rent companies, Acme Lift, has appointed Bryan Rich as chairman to i ...more









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