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EUROPEAN RENTAL AWARDS/
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INTERNATIONAL RENTAL EXHIBITION
The 2014 European
Rental Awards will be
presented in Amsterdam
on 25 June next year
and the deadline
for entries is Friday 21 February. Plus, advance details of the
International Rental Exhibition (IRE) and ERA Convention.
PRODUCT FEATURE: TELEHANDLERS
27
Compact and super-compact telehandlers are now an established
part of the market.
IRN
reports on some of the latest models
available.
PRODUCT REPORT:
31
SURFACE PREPARATION EQUIPMENT
There have been significant developments at two of the big
names of the business, Kunzle & Tasin and SPE, as
IRN
reports.
PRODUCT REPORT: PRESSURE WASHERS
35
Rental friendly pressure washers and bower washers are under
the spotlight this month, with news from Brendon Powerwashers,
Idrobase, Eurogate/Fuel Proof, Morris Site Machinery and Steam
Jenny.
IRC & BICES REPORT
40
Murray Pollok
reports from Beijing,
China on the 1st International Rental
Conference and the BICES construction
show, both held in mid-October.
SHOW PREVIEW:
45
THE RENTAL SHOW
ARA is expecting as many as 625
exhibitors at the 58th Rental Show,
being held in Orlando on 9-12 February
2014.
IRN
previews the event.
SITE REPORT: GROUNDFORCE
46
Murray Pollok
reports from a project in Geneva, Switzerland,
where UK rental company Groundforce is supplying a hydraulic
strut shoring system to contractor Implenia.
Our cover photo this
month shows hydraulic
shoring struts supplied
by Groundforce being
used on a project in
Geneva. See our full
report on page 46.
NEWS & KHL.COM ROUND-UP
5
Spain launches accreditation scheme; UK renters target oil and
gas; European Rental Awards now open; Bredenoord’s hybrid
genset; 2nd IRC dates confirmed; IRN Rental Share Index; plus
other news from the world’s rental sector.
KEVIN APPLETON COLUMN
11
Do you have the right work-life balance?
Kevin Appleton
says we
should consider ourselves lucky to have that kind of problem and
we should just 'get on with it'.
INTERVIEW: HIMOINSA
13
Spainish generator manufacturer
Himoinsa continues to invest heavily in
expanding its footprint globally.
Murray Pollok
spoke to the company’s executive director,
Francisco J Gracia.
ERA/
IRN
RENTALTRACKER AND
17
CONFIDENCE SURVEY
Results from the European RentalTracker survey for the third
quarter of 2013, plus our annual ‘Rest of the World’ Confidence
Survey.
INTERVIEW:
36
SIMPLEX EQUIPMENT RENTAL
André Véronneau, long-standing CEO of
Montreal-based Simplex Equipment Rental,
tells
Lindsey Anderson
about the challenges of
working in Quebec.
ERA PAGE
43
The ERA’s latest rental market report for Europe has just been
published, providing detailed information on all the region’s
major markets as well as, for the first time, a special focus on the
UK market. ERA secretary general
Michel Petitjean
outlines some
of the findings.
RENTAL IT PAGE
51
Price optimisation software is becoming the latest ‘must have’
technology for large rental companies.
Murray Pollok
talks to
Zilliant, one of the major suppliers in the sector.
FACES & PLACES
53
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54
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INTERNATIONAL
rental
Official magazine of the ERA
A KHL Group Publication
Volume 13 Issue 7
November-December 2013
NEWS
Groundforce develops global rental
market for hydraulic shoring struts
Geneva shoring
p46
NEW PRODUCTS: TELEHANDLERS, SURFACE PREPARATION& PRESSUREWASHERS
INTERVIEWS:
Himoinsa
p13
Simplex
Equipment
p36
Results of
IRN
Confidence Survey
p17
21 February
deadline for2014
RentalAwards
p24
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