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European Rental Awards 2020 & Market Update webinar

Name: European Rental Awards 2020 & Market Update webinar
Start: 2020-06-30T08:00:00+00:00
End: 2020-06-30T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Online

30 June, 2020 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

The 2020 European Rental Awards took place on 30 June in a webinar including equipment rental and construction market updates from industry experts:

– Pierre Boels, ERA President & CEO, Boels Rental: The response of the rental market to Covid-19
– Martin Seban, Consulting Director, IHS Markit: Projections for the European construction market
– Chris Sleight, Managing Director, Off-Highway Research: A new landscape for the global construction equipment market

Congratulations to all the winners and everyone who made the shortlist. You can read all about the shortlisted entries here and see the winners for each category below.

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SMALL RENTAL COMPANY OF THE YEAR

Cross Rental Services (Ireland/UK)
Drial Wynajem (Poland)
Vatupassi (Finland) – WINNER

Milla Tarnanen, CEO of Vatupassi, said, “This win makes me so happy and unbelievably proud of the whole Vatupassi team. It shows that we are doing the right things and we are on the right path.”

LARGE RENTAL COMPANY OF THE YEAR

Loxam (France)
Mollo Noleggio (Italy) – WINNER
Renta (Finland)

Mauro Mollo, CEO of Mollo Noleggio, said, “For our company, this award is of great value. But knowing our personalities and ambition, we will work for this recognition to be a starting point and not a finishing line.”

RENTAL PRODUCT OF THE YEAR

Atlas Copco (E-Air VSD electric compressor)
Caterpillar (301.7 CR mini excavator)
Consair (CAMU D2 dust extractor)
Endress (Energy Storage & SmartEnergyBox)
JCB (19C-1E electric mini excavator)
Wacker Neuson (Dual View dumpers) – WINNER

Alexander Greschner, CSO of Wacker Neuson, said, “During our Voice of Customer sessions, a lot of rental companies, from France, the UK and Germany, together with operators from all over Europe were working on the challenge to improve safety and security for operators and the environment on jobsites while working with dumpers.”

BEST DIGITAL INNOVATION OF THE YEAR

CheckMobile (AI-based damage detection software)
Intrador (Used equipment valuation tool and App)
Riwal (My Riwal App, VR training, augmented reality App)
Spartan Solutions (PHALANX digital operations platform) – WINNER

Jim Green, CEO of Spartan Solutions, said, “Innovation was always important, but now it’s vital for the rental industry to recover from this pandemic and get back on its feet again quickly. A big part of that is going to be digitalisation, and we believe rental companies just can’t hope to run their operations efficiently in future using paper processes.”

BEST SUSTAINABLE RENTAL PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Volvo Construction Equipment (Sweden) – JOINT WINNER
GSV Materieludlejning A/S (Denmark) – JOINT WINNER
Hoogwerkt (The Netherlands)

Dan Vorsholt, CEO of GSV, said he was encouraged by the positivity and good ideas shared by delegates, adding, “It’s not a one-man show; we need to do this together with customers and suppliers.”

Johan Wollin, Global Director for Energy Management at Volvo CE, said, “We see that we can reduce a significant amount of costs due to non-energy benefits. We can reduce maintenance costs, we can reduce production consumables, we can even indirectly improve quality and safety by working on energy management. The financial gains of these benefits were said to be substantially greater than the reduction in energy bills.”

ERA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE AWARD

Haulotte (France)
Manitou (France) – WINNER
Skyjack (Canada)

Michel Denis, President and CEO of Manitou, said, “At Manitou group, we design and manufacture machines and services with passion, dedication, expertise and innovation to meet your needs: rental expectations. So we could not have expected better recognition.”

JUDGES

Vincent Albasini, CEO, Avesco Rent
Pierre Boels, President, European Rental Association & CEO, Boels Rental
Jaap Fluit, General Manager, Bredenoord
Karel Huijser, General Manager & Vice President, EMEA, JLG Industries
Murray Pollok, Managing Editor, International Rental News
Non-voting chair: Michel Petitjean, Secretary General, European Rental Association

The judges chose all the shortlists and winners, except for the Sustainability and Technical awards, which were judged by ERA Committees.