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Dubai-based power and temperature control rental company Rental Solutions & Services (RSS) has signed a joint venture agreement with Muscat-based construction group Mubadarah Investments (MI) to provide rental services in Oman.

Speedy Hire has successfully completed its new rights issue, raising around £100 million (€115 million).

Pennsylvania-based Hinkel Equipment Rental Associates added a 200-foot Bronto to its fleet recently.

RSC Equipment Rental has launched an updated used equipment sales web site, accessed at www.RSCrental.com/usedequipment.

Ex-eBay executive Oliver Weyergraf has been appointed as the new chief executive officer of erento, the online rental marketplace.

Network Rail in the UK has expanded its fleet management agreement with Speedy Hire with a £6 million (€7 million) investment in rail-specific equipment that will be managed by Speedy.

Wacker Neuson has redesigned its smallest tracked dumper, the 900 kg capacity TD9, with the unit now using a more powerful 9.4 kW Yanmar L100N diesel engine and a fuel tank with almost double the volume of the previous model.

Skylift, the truck mounted aerial platform rental division of Lavendon Group, has introduced a vehicle tracking and remote management system to its fleet of vehicles.

Terex Aerial Work Platforms has opened service training sites in Oklahoma City, OK and Southaven, MS.

Despite the down economy, Teupen USA forged ahead and opened its first US facility in Charlotte, NC on June 26.

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.

GAP Group in the UK has won a three year extension to its current Scottish Water rental contract that was due to expire in November 2009. The new agreement will now see the contract run until 31 March 2012.

The power rental market in sub-Saharan Africa is forecast to grow at a compound annual rate of 9.5% to 2014, according to a recently published report by consultant Frost & Sullivan.

Revenues at the Lavendon Group fell 13% of a constant currency basis for the first five months of the year, with the UK, Belgium, France and Spain performing worst. In UK currency, total sales fell by just 5% for the five months and the company said its resilience against current economic conditions had improved during the period.

Aggreko has won a contract to supply 100 MW of power to the Saudi Electric Company (SEC) to help overcome seasonal power shortages in Saudi Arabia.

AMECO, the equipment rental division of Fluor Corp, has established a permanent office in Peru three years after first entering the South American market. The business is a partnership with local partner Choice Cargo, a Peruvian transport and logistics company, and is being operated under the name Choice Equipos y Servicios, based in Lima.

Aggreko said its local rental businesses in Europe and North America had deteriorated in the second quarter, with temperature control equipment most affected.

A specially extended version of the IRN100 survey is now available from KHL Group.

Several Vietnamese rental companies are starting to invest in new compressors instead of the used Japanese units most commonly found in the country. Atlas Copco Airpower reports that two renters in the country have recently acquired new Chicago Pneumatic (CP) compressors, which are produced by Atlas Copco in China.

Ashtead Group said it expected the recession to accelerate the trend towards rental, particularly in the US, with contractors responding to financial constraints and uncertain order books by outsourcing more of their equipment needs.