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Chicago Pneumatic to offer compressors and generators Europe-wide

Netherlands power rental company Bredenoord has won a Frost & Sullivan Product Line Strategy Award for its range of alternative fuel generators.

Speedy Hire is launching a ‘Green Options’ (GO) initiative giving customers the option to choose low-carbon products from a ‘Green Range’. The scheme is part of a wider environmental awareness campaign being launched by the company.

The Irmair brand of compressors produced by Atlas Copco’s Irmer + Elze business will be sold in Europe as Chicago Pneumatic (CP) products as part of a wider expansion of the Chicago Pneumatic brand.

Cummins Power Generation has introduced a new line of gensets in the 8 kVA to 28 kVA size range that are designed to deliver maximum power in a small package.

Pump manufacturers are producing more reliable, environmentally-friendly and easier to use models. Becca Wilkins reports on the latest developments in this specialist but essential equipment sector.

A 12 bar Chicago Pneumatic CPS 375 compressor is being used in Hanoi, Vietnam, to flush out water and soil from 50 m deep borings for the construction of concrete piles.

Speedy Hire has invested almost £0.8 million (€0.9 million) in a new fleet of 1250 kVA generating sets to target international major projects business, in particular in the utilities sector.

Conterfeit Chinese products destroyed and European distributor prosecuted following court action.

IRN takes a look at some of the more recent lighting tower launches, including models from Light Engineering, Tower Light, Birchwood, SMC, Doosan Portable Power, Terex AWP, SDMO and JCB.

Doosan Infracore Portable Power (DIPP) has launched the new 12/150 model, the company's largest single axle portable compressor.

UK rental company Speedy Hire has ordered 300 of TowerLight’s new VT-1+eco lighting towers. The tower features an automatic switch-on and -off system that the companies claim will reduce tower maintenance costs by a third; cut pollution by 30%; and result in considerable cost savings for contractors.

Atlas Copco Specialty Rental has won the first rental contract for its recently acquired Nitrogen Bundle Boxes (NBB) with three units and other equipment being used for pipeline testing on Egypt’s Sequoia gas field.

One of the UK’s largest portable accommodation rental companies, Wernick Hire, acquired Rollalong Hire, one of its largest competitors, in September.

Cummins Power Generation, the Cummins division that operates a power rental business, has confirmed that it will focus on being a supplier to the rental sector rather than a major rental provider in its own right.

Italian lighting tower manufacturer Tower Light is offering its customers a new software application that will calculate the amount of light required to cover any interior of exterior site.

Netherlands power rental company Bredenoord has developed a hydrogen fuel cell powered generator and has started to rent it at events and other sites in the Benelux area.

A giant mobile parasol will be among the innovative party and events products on display at this year's Showman's Show, which takes place at its usual outdoors location near Newbury, UK, on 21 and 22 October.

Cummins Power Generation said mobile power products using fuel cell technology could be commercially available within two to three years, with larger 100 kW stationary units available in seven to 10 years.

Dipl.-Ing. Carl Kaeser, senior director of compressor manufacturer Kaeser Kompressoren, died on 8 July shortly after his 95th birthday.