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Atlas Copco has launched a 1 MW generator in the same 20 ft size container used for its previous largest model, the QAC 1000.

Belgian genset manufacturer Europower is developing a new range of large gensets and will show a 100 kVA model at IRE as well as a new 11 kW model.

Arcgen-Hilta, the UK-based producer of Arcgen, Hilta and SMC products is at the Intermat Middle East show in Abu Dhabi looking for distributors throughout the region and initial contacts look positive.

Aggreko said it is ready to help Japan in the aftermath of last Friday’s earthquake and tsunami.

Aggreko is to acquire New Zealand power rental company N. Z. Generator Hire Ltd for NZ$27.5 million (£12.7 million). NZ had revenues of NZ$13 million (£6.0 million) in 2010 and Aggreko said it was the largest power renter in the country.

Three fuel cell power generation systems are being rented in the UK by UPS Systems following an agreement with French fuel cell specialist Air Liquide Hydrogen Energy.

SDMO has been showing European rental buyers its new range of Rental Compact generators, the first of which was launched at the Bauma exhibition last year.

Middle East temperature control and power rental company Rental Solutions & Services (RSS) is expanding its international power projects business and has recruited an experienced power rentals manager, Peter den Boogert, to head up the operation.

Denyo Europe BV is to extend its range of ultra silent gensets next year with the launch of a 100 kVA unit to add to the 20 and 37 kVA units already available.

Aggreko has acquired Northland Power Services, a power rental company that services oil and gas companies in the Rocky Mountain region of the US. The price is US$26 million.

United Rentals has opened three specialist power and temperature control rental locations in Washington State, North Carolina and Texas. The branches are located in Tacoma (Washington), Charlotte (NC), and Beaumont (TX).

The chief executive of Arc-Gen has told IRN that the company aims to triple its revenues by 2015, with 50% of its business generated outside the UK.

Caterpillar enjoyed a leading 24.9% share of the European diesel genset market in 2009 according to market research body Frost & Sullivan, which has awarded Cat its annual European Market Share Leadership Award in genset category. Frost & Sullivan said Caterpillar had consolidated its leadership position in a declining market.

Cummins Power Generation will increase its genset prices by 3.5% on average from 1 January next year.

New gensets and welding units from SDMO, Atlas Copco, Doosan Infracore Portable Power Lincoln, Cummins, GYS and Multiquip come under the spotlight in this IRN Product Report.

Netherlands power rental company Bredenoord is unusual in that it likes to develop and build its own gensets, including some rather special designs. Murray Pollok visited the company’s Apeldoorn facility.

New G20 generators from Doosan International UK Ltd, Portable Power (DIPP) are being used in two specially made trailer-mounted grout pumping systems designed by specialist concrete pump rental company Premier Concrete Pumping Ltd (PCP).

UK power rental company Mather + Stuart Generators Ltd is to make all of its shires ‘carbon neutral’ by only using carbon offset diesel.

JCB has appointed new distributors in Germany and the UK for its range of gensets. August Storm Gmbh & Co. KG (Storm) is now the distributor for Germany and in the UK, Tarplett Generator Services (TGS) has been appointed as a dealer.

UK equipment distributor and pump manufacturer ArcGen Hilta has acquired Sandhurst Manufacturing Ltd (SMC), the lighting tower and genset manufacturer. The purchase price was not disclosed.