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The European Rental Association (ERA) is organising a series of rental events during the Intermat exhibition in April, including two round-table sessions on the Tuesday afternoon and visits to local rental depots on the Wednesday of the show.

The new president of Brazilian rental association ALEC is Marco Aurélio da Cunha, managing director of São Paulo Locadora de Máquinas e Equipamentos Ltda, a general equipment rental company with depots in São Paulo, Curitiba and Praia Grande.

The ERA/IRN RentalTracker survey for the fourth quarter of 2011 is ready to complete and is now in available in six languages - English, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Russian.

The Rental Show 2010 has been rated one of the top 100 North American trade shows for the year by Trade Show Executive Gold 100. The exhibition, which took place 7-10 February 2010 at the Orange County Convention Centre in Orlando, US, attracted more than 600 exhibiting companies.

Companies have just over six weeks to submit their entries for the fifth European Rental Awards, to be held on 15 May next year during the European Rental Association’s annual convention in Oslo, Norway.

The IRE exhibition and ERA convention in Amsterdam was a meeting place for debating rental, seeing new equipment and networking. Murray Pollok and Helen Wright report on the three day event.

Johann Sailer, managing director of GEDA-Dechentreiter, was unanimously elected as chairman of the VDMA’s Construction Equipment and Building Material Machinery Association at its annual assembly in Bremen last week.

Europe's rental industry will grow by an estimated 5.5% this year followed by slightly slower growth of 4% in 2012 and 3% in 2013, predicts the European Rental Association (ERA) in its latest European Equipment Rental Industry 2011 Report.

The Chinese Construction Machinery Rental Association (CMRA) met in Beijing on the eve of the BICES exhibition to hear from expert rental speakers and to discuss issues for the rental industry.

Italian rental and distributors association Assodimi and its rental arm Assonolo are returning to the SAIE exhibition in Bologna this year to recreate the 'Nololand' area dedicated to rental.

It has been 10 years since the American Rental Association hosted its annual Rental Show in New Orleans, but Feb. 5-8 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, the show returns with more education sessions, new evening events and innovative products and equipment, according to organizers.

The ERA/IRN Rental Tracker survey for the second quarter of 2011 reveals continued uncertainty in rental markets in the UK and Italy in contrast to more positive environments in France, the Nordic region and Benelux.

The ‘early bird’ rate for the Europlatform access rental conference is available until Friday 15 July. The theme this year is Financing Growth and the line-up is once again very strong with speakers including Alexandre Saubot, Kevin Appleton and Loxam’s mergers and acquisitions specialist, Maëg Videau.

The ERA/IRN RentalTracker survey covering the second quarter of 2011 is ready to complete and is again available in five languages - English, French, Spanish, Italian and German.

IRN produced daily newsletters from last week’s International Rental Exhibition (IRE) and European Rental Association (ERA) conference in Amsterdam.

Rental industry 'a partner to the Japanese people' following disaster.

The European Rental Association (ERA) has published a new guide to equipment rental that aims to help the industry attract new customers and explain rental to government organisations, regulatory bodies and other stakeholders in the business.

Senior industry figures optimistic on rental market prospects but call for cultural change

The Australian rental industry celebrated on 10-13 May with its annual awards dinner and convention. Winners included General Equipment Rentals (rental company of the year), Hiretech (supplier of the year), Event Power and Light (smaller rental company of the year, and JLG Industries (ptroduct of the year for the 340AJ articulated boom).

A 5 percent recovery in the aerial work platform market is expected for 2011 with even stronger growth in 2012, the International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) has reported in its IPAF US Powered Access Rental Report 2011.