NEWS
ACCESS, LIFT & HANDLERS
MARCH 2014
8
New Jersey-based rental
company
TRICO LIFT
has
purchased four JLG 1500SJ
booms. The 150-foot platform
height telescopic booms will be
used for various applications,
including window cleaning and
mobile tower construction.
“Trico Lift serves the Mid-
Atlantic and Midwest, which are
areas of this country that have
resumed and/or maintained
large contracting projects where
these machines are critical - but
perhaps too costly to own,” said
Trico Lift President and CEO
Chris Carmolingo.
Mississippi-based Caterpillar
dealer
PUCKETT RENTS
has entered an agreement
with
SMARTEQUIP
to join
the SmartEquip Network.
The SmartEquip Network
supports more than 100 OEM
brands. Utilizing SmartEquip’s
Integrated Workplace
technology, Puckett will
receive real-time, dynamically
customized product, parts
and service support for its
equipment fleet, as well as
procurement capabilities to
automate electronic purchasing
with its suppliers.
Former Volvo Rents executive
Mike Crouch has been
appointed president and chief
operating officer of
ACME LIFT
CO.
, bringing more than 35
years of rental experience to the
wholesale aerial platform rental
company. Woody Weld remains
chairman and chief executive
officer of Acme.
TRICO LIFT
has appointed
Jon Raber as manager of
its Baltimore, Maryland
branch. Raber brings to the
role more than 15 years of
sales and rental experience,
including branch and district
management, and inside and
outside sales roles.
IPAF
has issued 500,000 PAL
Cards across the world, the
Federation has announced. Tim
Whiteman said the half million
Powered Access Licences
that have been issued are a
tremendous success for IPAF.
HIGHLIGHTS
Platinum names Volvo
Rents ‘Blue Line Rental’
BlueLine Rental is the new name
that Platinum Equity has given to
its recently acquired Volvo Rents.
“The launch of our new identity
represents an exciting milestone
for the company,” said Scott Hall,
president of BlueLine Rental.
“With Platinum Equity’s support,
we have new opportunities
to grow and build on the
fundamentals that have made us
so successful – our commitment
to service and the way we
treat our valued customers and
employees.”
The announcement was made
as the US rental industry gathered
in Orlando for the annual Rental
Show and follows Platinum’s
€
800 million acquisition of Volvo
Rents in December last year.
“We have worked closely with
the management team to ensure
a seamless transition and we
are excited to help the business
achieve new levels of success,”
said Louis Samson, the partner at
Platinum Equity Partner who led
the transaction team.
BlueLine rents Volvo compact
equipment. It operates from more
than 130 locations across North
America.
U.S. Battery updates products
U.S. Battery Manufacturing
has added XC2 formulation
to its line of deep-cycle
batteries used in lift and access
machine applications. The XC2
formulation, in conjunction with
the company’s Diamond
Plate Technology,
provides higher initial
capacity and higher total
energy delivery over
the life of the battery.
“Our batteries with XC2
formulation reach full
U.S. Battery Manufacturing has
added XC2 formulation to its
line of deep-cycle batteries.
peak capacity in as few as 25
cycles, while also extending the
service life of the battery,” said
Don Wallace, U.S. Battery CMO/
executive vice president. “This
means that rental companies and
fleets can operate their battery
powered machinery longer on a
full-charge.”
U.S. Battery’s XC2 formulation
is a combination of synthetic
tetrabasic lead sulfate crystal
structures (TTBLS), which allow
flooded lead acid batteries to
reach peak capacity in fewer
cycles, provide higher total
energy delivery, and extend
battery life.
John Patterson retires
from JCB after 43 years
John Patterson, longtime
president and CEO of JCB in
North America, has retired
from the company.
John Patterson has retired from
JCB after 43 years’ service.
Arjun Mirdha will take over as
president and CEO of JCB in
North America, where John
Patterson has led operations
since 2008 as chairman and
CEO. Arjun Mirdha takes over
the roll as president and CEO of
JCB in North America.
Patterson joined JCB in 1971
as a field service engineer and
went on to work in Canada and
America before returning to the
UK in 1988 as managing director
of JCB Service. In 1993, he was
appointed managing director
of JCB Sales before becoming
group CEO – only the third
person in JCB’s history to hold the
position. He served as group CEO
for 10 years before standing down
to head-up the company’s North
American subsidiary, JCB Inc.
“During John’s time as CEO, JCB
achieved unprecedented sales
growth and led the company’s
transformation into a truly global
company,” said JCB chairman
Lord Bamford. I thank John for
his contribution over the past 43
years and am delighted he will
remain a director of the JCB Group
and chairman of the board of the
JCB USA companies.”
Patterson said, “I am proof that
there are no boundaries to career
development at JCB and I have
had an incredible time. JCB
has made excellent progress
in North America in recent
years but there are many more
opportunities to be seized and
I wish Arjun Mirdha well as he
leads the team as president and
CEO of JCB in North America.”
