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Ramirent is offering its Swedish customers new site security systems, including ID-card operated doors and gates and secure containers of tools that can only be accessed by authorised workers.

The second ERA/IRN RentalTracker survey reveals continued difficult business conditions in Europe’s rental sector, but with confidence indicators heading in the right direction and indications that many renters see conditions either bottoming out or no longer deteriorating at the same rate.

JLG will be exhibiting at the American Rental Association's 2010 Rental Show in Orlando

UK rental software company MCS has launched an upgraded version of its MCS-web customer ‘extranet’ offering additional functions including a ‘hire now’ button and the ability to link to live fleet tracking data.

Terex AWP sales fell by 66.5% to US$397.7 million for the third quarter of the year and the division made a net loss of $50.1 million. The company said its rental customers in North American and Europe continued to age and reduce their fleets and defer investment.

Brazilian rental company Solaris rented 10 aerial platforms to help prepare the Interlagos F1 racing circuit for last weekend’s dramatic Grand Prix in which Brawn’s Jenson Button sealed the 2009 championship.

Spanish rental company GAM has won a five year contract valued at €3 million to rent material handling equipment at a new logistics centre of one of Spain’s largest supermarket chains, Alimerka.

JLG Industries will cease manufacturing its rear-pivot steer telehandler models in 2010. The handlers, previously sold under the Gradall brand, were added to JLG's range in 1999 when it acquired the Gradall business.

Speedy Hire is to make further £30 million cost savings during the current financial year (to 31 March 2010) in response to continued weakness in its markets.

The third European Rental Awards will be held on 26 May 2010 in Prague, Czech Republic, during the European Rental Association's annual convention.

Sullair has made some adjustments to its PAC80 low pressure compressor including a frame design that allows the unit to be stacked and a raised fuel tank to make it easier to refuel.

Rental Solutions & Services (RSS) in Dubai is a fast growing power and temperature control rental company with global ambitions. Murray Pollok spoke to managing director Milan Balac about power rental opportunities, and a certain rental competitor…

India’s rental industry may just be getting starting, but it’s a country that holds vast potential, as Murray Pollok found when he spoke to three senior rental managers in the country.

The aerial platform sector is experiencing one of its periodic crises, with large rental companies selling off their platforms and manufacturers trying to survive until the upturn comes. Murray Pollok and Maria Hadlow report.

Further consolidation of the rental sector is widely anticipated when the market emerges from recession. But has the recession changed the essentials of due diligence? It’s a question for both potential buyers and sellers of businesses, writes Peter Thomas of consultancy Will Leftwich Associates.

Cramo is one of the leading equipment rental companies in Europe. Being a player in a very ‘masculine’ industry, Anders Collman, head of corporate communications, was looking for a business-related corporate social responsibility (CSR) project that would add human values to the company’s image and appeal to younger people with a social conscience. Here, he describes the charity in the Ukraine that Cramo is now supporting.

Toyota Material Handling USA, Inc. has expanded its Aichi dealerships from 15 to 26.

Have you considered buying Chinese construction equipment? Perhaps now is a good time to think about it. Murray Pollok reports from China where he visited five local manufacturers.

IRN takes a look at some of the more recent lighting tower launches, including models from Light Engineering, Tower Light, Birchwood, SMC, Doosan Portable Power, Terex AWP, SDMO and JCB.