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Safety first? Is it possible for a rental business to focus too much on safety? No, says Kevin Appleton.

More than 120 Spanish rental managers met in Madrid in early March to discuss the continuing crisis in the country’s rental industry. There were no easy answers, as Nuria Martí (in Madrid) and Murray Pollok report.

Higher utilisation helped in 2012 for mobile crane rental and distribution company Essex Rental Corp in North America

Spain’s rental industry will meet in Madrid this Friday, 1 March, to discuss trends in rental and the ongoing crisis in the country’s construction sector.

Equipment operators should be medically assessed every three years according to the new industry guidelines.

New index uses fleet values as a basis for measuring rental penetration, an approach that ARA says is more meaningful than traditional methods based on new equipment sales.

Report contains 50 pages of supplier listings and this year includes 25 additional Chinese suppliers.

United Rentals CEO Michael Kneeland confirmed as keynote speaker at the first IRC conference on 14 October, 2013.

Big is better, says Rupert Soames, but for Aggreko it is even more important to operate in exactly the same way everywhere in the world.

Appleton column: Specialist or generalist, what is the best rental strategy?

KHL Group has published a selection of interviews with rental managers compiled from the last three years of International Rental News (IRN) magazine.

There is a 2 September deadline to get the discounted rate for the Europlatform conference on 20 September in Edinburgh, UK.

Russian rental consultancy RusRental will hold the third Russian Rental Conference in Sochi on 12-13 October this year.

UK plant and tool hire company GAP Group is to establish more specialist divisions to add to the Lifting and Non-mechanical plant divisions launched in the past three years.

Netherlands-based Scafom-rux - which rents, sells and manufacturers scaffolding, shoring and propping products worldwide - has gone live with its new ERP and rental software system from Germany’s Sycor.Rental.

Top level speakers from Riwal, Loxam and Ramirent will give presentations at the Europlatform rental conference in Edinburgh on 20 September this year.

IRN's Murray Pollok reports from the seventh European Rental Convention held in Oslo, Norway on 15-16 May and attended by more than 230 delegates.

The president of the Brazilian rental association ALEC, Marco Aurélio da Cunha, will give a presentation on the Brazilian rental market at the upcoming M&T Expo exhibition.

Riwal chief executive officer Norty Turner will be the keynote speaker at the Europlatform conference taking place in Edinburgh, UK, on Thursday 20 September this year.

Equipment users across the world are in broad agreement over the most important elements of rental service, with on-time delivery, availability of equipment, equipment reliability, and on-site back-up from the rental supplier being consistently rated as the top four factors in the Attitudes to Rental survey conducted by International Rental News magazine.