Serious Labs, Point of Rental, Sullair Top 2018 Innovative Product Awards

RER announces its annual Innovative Product Award winners for 2018: The Gold Award goes to Serious Labs for its Ryze-MEWP Virtual Reality Simulator; the Silver Award goes to Point of Rental Software for UnLockIt, an app that allows rental businesses to provide self-service rental, rental-on-demand, and after-hours parts pickup; and the Bronze Award goes to Sullair for its OFD 1550 Portable Oil Free Rotary Screw Air Compressor.

Michael Roth

Dec. 5, 2018

2 min read

RER announces its annual Innovative Product Award winners for 2018: The Gold Award goes to Serious Labs for its Ryze MEWP Virtual Reality Simulator; the Silver Award goes to Point of Rental Software for UnLockIt, an app that allows rental businesses to provide self-service rental, rental-on-demand, and after-hours parts pickup; and the Bronze Award goes to Sullair for its OFD 1550 Portable Oil Free Rotary Screw Air Compressor.

Now in its 17^th year, the RER Innovative Product Awards honors innovative products in more than a dozen equipment categories, decided on by a panel of more than a dozen equipment rental industry participants. This year Serious Labs won the Gold Award after winning the Technology Enhancements category; Point of Rental won the Silver Award after winning the computer software category; and Sullair won the Bronze Award after taking the compressors/air tools category.

Other category winners are:

Concrete-working equipment: Hilti’s TE2000-AVR demolition hammer;
Earthmoving: Takeuchi’s TL6R track loader
Engines/Power Sourcing: POWR2 Hybrid Energy Systems
Generators/Welders: Lincoln Electric’s Vantage 549 welder
Lifts: Haulotte’s HA 61 Le Pro
Light Towers: Allmand Brothers’ Nite-Lite E-Series
Material Handling Equipment: Gehl’s Mark74 Series 74-hp telescopic handler
Miscellaneous: Hilti’s DD-WMS-100 Water Management System
Power Tools: Stihl’s TS 440 Cutquik saw.

The three top winners are profiled in the December edition of RER magazine, and will be presented in greater depth in an upcoming issue of RER Reports. The category winners will be profiled in an upcoming edition of RER magazine as well as RER Reports.

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.