RER Innovative Product Awards Go to 14 Companies

RER’s Innovative Product Award category winners represent an eclectic variety of equipment rental industry suppliers. While the top prizes went to JCB for its Teleskid (gold); Genie for its SX-135XC boomlift (silver) and Point of Rental for its Inspection App (Bronze); a dozen more IPA categories were given out by the IPA panel of judges. Here is the complete list of category winners:

Michael Roth

Dec. 12, 2017

Compressors/Air Tools: Atlas Copco’s XAS 110 air compressor;
Computer Software: Point of Rental Inspection App (also Silver Award winner);
Concrete Working Equipment: Toro Tracked Mud Buggy, MB TX2500;
Cutting/Drilling Equipment: Pengo InterLok Auger Coupler System;
Earthmoving: JCB Teleskid (also Gold Award winner);
Engines/Power Sourcing: Perkins Syncro 1.7 and 2.2 liter compact engines;
Generators: Makinex Construction Products 16kw Generator;
Lifts: Genie SX-135XC boomlift, also Silver Award winner;
Lifts (tied): Magni Telescopic Handler RTH 6.46 SH;
Light Towers: Lind Equipment Beacon LED Tower;
Material Handling: JLG 1644 and 1732 high capacity telehandlers;
Miscellaneous: Airtow Trailers DH Dock-Height Trailer;
Power Tools -- Hilti Universal vacuum cleaner VC 300-17X
Technology Enhancements: JLG SmartLoad Technology (tie)
Wynne Systems: Mobile Link

All of the IPA entries will be profiled in print and online in the coming months.

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.