Cooper Equipment Rentals to Open Two New Ontario Branches

Cooper Equipment Rentals is preparing to open two new Ontario branches this summer.

July 24, 2018

Cooper Equipment Rentals partners Darryl Cooper left and Doug Dougherty are preparing the opening of two new branches a trench safety facility in Kitchener Ontario and a general rental branch in Oshawa Ontario — Cooper Equipment Rentals partners Darryl Cooper, left, and Doug Dougherty, are preparing the opening of two new branches -- a trench safety facility in Kitchener, Ontario, and a general rental branch in Oshawa, Ontario.

Cooper Equipment Rentals is preparing to open two new Ontario branches this summer. First will be its second Trench Safety branch, in a new 8,000-square-foot facility in the unit next door to the company’s Kitchener, Ontario, Canada branch. The facility also has a half acre of outside storage for trench safety equipment.

Kitchener is a city of nearly a quarter million people, and along with Waterloo and Cambridge make up a tri-city area about 100 kilometers west of Toronto.

Cooper is also opening a branch in Oshawa, Ontario, later this summer. It will be a 15,000-square-foot facility, with a 1.5-acre yard and large showroom, located close to central Oshawa. Oshawa is a city of about 160,000 people, located 60 kilometers east of Toronto on the Lake Ontario shoreline.

Cooper Equipment Rentals will soon be announcing the official opening dates of the two new branches, which will give the company about 35 branches. Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Cooper Equipment Rentals is No. 31 on the RER 100.

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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.