Tsurumi Donates Trash Pumps for Use in Flood-Ravaged Communities

Nov. 11, 2017

Tsurumi pumps about to be shipped for use in hurricaneravaged communities — Tsurumi pumps about to be shipped for use in hurricane-ravaged communities.

Tsurumi Pump donated a shipment of pumps to ToolBank USA, an Atlanta-based nonprofit organization that distributes equipment to areas of need around the country free of charge, for use in hurricane-ravaged regions. The shipment contained a combination of Tsurumi 2- and 3-inch EPT engine-driven trash pumps as well as the hose required to run them.

After arriving at ToolBank’s headquarters, the pumps were immediately distributed to several flood-ravaged communities in the southeastern U.S., where Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Jose caused record damage.

“At Tsurumi, we’re able to invest more in our inventory than most pump manufacturers,” gloated Glenn Wieczorek, managing director of Tsurumi. “This puts us in a unique position to not only monitor and plan for storms such as Hurricane Harvey, but to put portions of our equipment aside to help communities in need. We appreciate Toolbank’s efforts in making sure our pumps are delivered to the people who need them most.”

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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.