Loxam Group, Europe’s Largest Rental Company, Joins IPAF to Promote Aerial Safety

The entire Loxam Group, Europe’s largest rental company, has joined the International Powered Access Federation. Loxam Group consists of 11 Loxam companies.
July 14, 2016

The entire Loxam Group, Europe’s largest rental company, has joined the International Powered Access Federation. Loxam Group consists  of 11 Loxam companies. Its subsidiaries in the U.K., Ireland and the Netherlands are already IPAF members. The membership agreement was signed by Alice Henault, director of the Loxam Access division, and Tim Whiteman, IPAF CEO, during the European Rental Association’s annual convention in Stockholm in June.

Henault said that Loxam believes it can work with IPAF and use IPAF’s safety and technical expertise to help promote safety in France.

“We see that IPAF is really helping the business in the UK and other countries where we are members,” said Henault. “Now is the time to be an IPAF member in France. Safety is a challenge, and it is part of our job to promote safety. We have to work with IPAF to find the best way to promote safety.”

“We welcome the Loxam Group’s commitment to sharing experience and information from its operations around Europe within the IPAF community,” said IPAF CEO Tim Whiteman. “Together we can help improve safety around the world.”

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Michael Roth

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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.

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