Interview: Sunbelt UK’s Phil Parker on innovation and procurement

Murray Pollok Managing Editor, IRN & Director of Content, KHL

24 November 2025

When does product innovation go too far, and what have Chinese OEMs brought to the rental market? Phil Parker, CEO of Sunbelt Rentals UK & Ireland talks to Murray Pollok.

Sunbelt’s Phil Parker is speaking to International Rental News at the end of the company’s recent two-day safety and innovation event for customers and suppliers, hosted at the James Watt technical college in Birmingham.

Some of the students had dropped in and they had made an impact; “Our director of…

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