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Ritchie Bros held its first auction in Avignon, France, on 10 November and will return to Portugal for the first time in three years with an auction on Thursday 18 November in Tondela. The Tondela sale will be simultaneously broadcast at the Ritchie auction taking place on the same day in Ocana, near Madrid in Spain.

UK-based construction equipment auction company Euro Auctions has opened a permanent auction site in Valencia, Spain, and will hold its first auction there on 10 December.

UK asset valuation and auction company Edward Symmons is selling more than 18000 items of small plant from the railways rental business Fastline following the appointment of administrators at Fastline and its parent company Jarvis earlier this year.

United Rentals has created a used equipment web portal offering thousands of items for sale in more than 40 equipment categories. United said it will be one of the largest sources of pre-owned rental equipment sold directly by the owner.

One of Europe’s largest insurance companies, RSA (formerly Royal Sun Alliance), is warning equipment rental companies to be more vigilant against the threat of plant theft and criminal fraud.

UK rental company Hewden will hold a used equipment auction in September that it claimed is Europe’s largest ‘direct from user’ sale.

Online auctioneer IronPlanet has been growing dramatically over the past 18 months. Tom Cornell, the company’s managing director for Europe, tells Murray Pollok why the online model works.

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

Selling used equipment is an essential and everyday part of the equipment rental business. Patrick Hill talks to major rental companies in the UK, Scandinavia, Japan and the US about how they manage the asset disposal process.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers officially opened its new French auction site at a ceremony on 27 June. The 20-hectare facility is at Saint Aubin sur Gaillon, west of Paris, strategically located alongside the A13 motorway and just 100 km from the port of Le Havre.