MMD, Sullair, Thompson Pump, Hilti and Generac among Innovative Product Award Category Winners

As previously announced in RER Reports, the top three awards in our annual Innovative Product Award went to Makinex for its powered hand truck PHT-140 (Gold Award); United Academy (powered by United Rentals) for its aerial work platform virtual reality simulator (Silver Award); and Genie Industries for its Z-60/37 FE and DC boomlifts (Bronze Award).

Michael Roth

Dec. 17, 2016

Equally innovative and deserving are the range of category winners that include Sullair’s 400HH Tier 4 Final air compressor (Compressors/Air Tools); Point-of-Rental Software’s Elite (Computer Software); the Makinex Hose 2 Go (Cutting/Drilling Equipment); Terramac’s RT14R 360° rotating rubber track carrier (Earthmoving); MMD Equipment Hybrid Fuel System (Generators/Welders); Generac Mobile Products PLT240 LinkTower (Light Towers); GroundWorks Safety Systems Self-descending High Arch Trench Box (Miscellaneous); the Hilti Breaker TE 800-AVR (Power Tools); Thompson Pump’s Enviroprime System (Pumps).

Makinex’s powered hand truck won the Material Handling category; United Academy won in the Technology Enhancements category; and Genie won the Lifts category.

In the coming weeks we will offer more information about the category winners as well as more than 30 “honorable mention” candidates that are more than worthy candidates. Stay tuned!

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.