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The renaming of Atlas Copco’s Portable Air division to Portable Energy reflects a widening of the division’s product range beyond its famous compressors. Murray Pollok reports from Portable Energy’s headquarters in Antwerp, Belgium.

Atlas Copco said it will continue to develop its renamed Portable Energy division.

Belgian used equipment dealer Machinery Resale bvba has created a new division, MR Air Force, to supply large compressors on long-term contracts to rental companies, equipment dealers and agents.

Ellen Steck, the former RSC Equipment Rental and Atlas Copco executive, has joined Chicago Pneumatic Compressors and Pneumatech as president of both companies. She will be located at Chicago Pneumatic’s Rock Hill office in South Carolina.

Hertz Equipment Rental Corp (HERC) has added four locations to its Pump & Power special division. The new branches are in Memphis, Detroit, Syracuse and San Diego.

Atlas Copco launches a new range of BG concrete walk behind power-trowels at IRE.

Chicago Pneumatic (CP), the Atlas Copco business that sells basic site equipment such as light compaction, power, compressed air, hydraulic breakers and lighting tools, will become the sole brand used for light compaction equipment in North America, taking over from the Dynapac brand.

HP750e offers lower purchase cost than Tier 4 Interim equivelent and will be cheaper to run than a diesel machine.

Allight Sykes, the Australian pumps, power, lighting tower and compressor specialist, is to start manufacturing lighting towers at a new facility in Dubai, the Middle East.

Doosan Infracore Portable Power (DIPP) will use ConExpo to announce the worldwide rebranding of its range of generators, compressors and lighting towers, with the Doosan name to replace Ingersoll Rand.

Atlas Copco is launching its smallest portable compressor yet and its first petrol powered unit. The new XAS 27 is powered by a Honda GX30 engine and is pitched as “price competitive unit for customers who want a compressor to run just one tool.”

Atlas Copco is close to completing the rebranding of its specialty compressed air and power rental businesses. The unified name for the business will be Atlas Copco Rental.

CompAir is still very much in the portable compressor game following its acquisition in 2008 by Gardner Denver - the US$2 billion stock-listed manufacturer of pumps, blowers and fluid transfer equipment – and it will launch three new fuel-efficient, high-pressure portable units at Bauma.

Atlas Copco Portable Air has used Bauma to highlight the implications of engine emission regulations on portable compressors and to unveil a prototype Tier 4A/Stage III B compliant XRHS 366 compressor.

Kishore Sidhwani has been appointed vice president of Chicago Pneumatic Construction Equipment. He is currently general manager of Atlas Copco’s Construction & Mining Technique Customer Centre in India and will start his new job on 1 February, located in Nacka, near Stockholm, Sweden.

Montreal's Simplex rents 15 compressors to prevent water freezing in locks on the St Lawrence River

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.

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.

Aldar Laing O’Rourke Plant, a new rental division created by the Aldar-Laigh O’Rourke Joint Venture, has taken delivery of 60 Atlas Copco XA 136 portable compressors for use on the Al Raha Beach project in Abu Dhabi.