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aLH has combined its top
f
or most rental companies, 2010 was not a manufacturers have taken the opportunity to
year of significant growth and if two words take stock of their whole offering and found
20 aerials, telehandler could summarize how companies feel that, in many cases, the drive to get equipment
about 2011, they would be “cautiously optimistic.” out the door and fulfill large order backlogs
and scaffold lists to north American rental houses have been allowed some service and support issues to be
weathering one of the worst economic downturns overlooked. these issues are being addressed in
provide a comprehensive in history, and despite most major players many areas with improvements in parts supply,
posting financial gains in the third and fourth service and aftersales support, which should
look at the 2010 market. quarters of 2010, companies remain guarded. be able to be maintained when machine orders
however, the market seems to have settled increase again.
How will 2011 shape up? into a truce with the prevailing conditions. the Some manufacturers have chosen to maintain
immediate pain of dramatic cuts in production, all their production facilities, albeit with reduced
only time will tell. workforce and rental fleets has started to fade workforce and working hours, others have closed
and, as yet, there have been surprisingly few plants. Although everyone is keen for order
company failures and consolidations. books to start filling up, there is concern that in
Recently, rental consultant dan Kaplan gave the event of sudden and dramatic increases the
an upbeat presentation on the north American biggest challenges will be to train or retrain the
rental market at the AEm conference in San returning workforce and the ability of external
Antonio, tX in late 2010. there seems to be a suppliers to respond.
general mood of improved positivity, even if however, since the outlook is for steady and
there are still problems getting finance for gradual growth beginning in 2011 and rising
equipment, and orders are very slowly starting through 2012 and 2013, these problems are
to return. unlikely to arise.
Kaplan said some of the biggest US renters
would considerably increase their capital Worldwide markets
investments in 2011, forecasting spending of At the AEm event, Kaplan presented a video
$500 million at United Rentals, $400 million interview with United Rentals cEo, michael
at RSc Equipment Rentals and $475 million Kneeland – prepared for the AEm event – in which
at hertz equipment Rental co (hERc). that is Kneeland said that equipment owners who were
considerably more than the three companies having difficulty in raising funds to purchase
invested in 2010. machines would turn to rental. there will be
he said that aging fleets and increasing “a paradigm shift from ownership to rental,”
utilization rates - the result of fleet reductions he said.
over the past two years and demand creeping however, the rental sector operating
back up - would trigger increases in spending. primarily in construction has been hit hard: in
meanwhile, with quiet order books many some areas the desire to increase utilization
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weBsiTe Phone
www.ur.com 800-877-3687
www.rscnrental.com 800-222-7777
www.sunbeltrentals.com 800-667-9328
www.hertzequip.com 888-777-2700
www.ahern.com 800-400-1610
new Jersey-headquartered Trico lift continues to
expand its fleet and presence; the company just
www.nesrentals.com 900-637-7368 recently opened a new depot in Texas.
this increase in fleet means that Venetor rises
www.he-equipment.com 877-410-4242 six places in the list from 16th to 10th. Besides
Venetor, though, only three other companies
in the a20 reported any growth; Sunstate
www.sunstateequip.com 888-399-4826 Equipment in Arizona reports fleet numbers up
by 6 percent; new Jersey-based trico Lift went
up 3 percent, and florida’s hR2 (high Reach II)
www.briggsequipment.com 214-630-0808 increased its fleet by 4.1 percent. Everyone else
has remained flat or scaled down their fleets.
It is unlikely a huge change will occur in 2011,
www.venetor.com 888-664-5007 with the focus very much on fleet replacement
rather than expansion.
Aerial oEms expect sales to grow moderately
www.starrentals.com 800-825-7880 because aging rental fleets will be refreshed, but
2011 is unlikely to see an explosion of growth.
michael Kneeland, chief executive officer of
www.allcrane.com 216-986-5190 United Rentals, says he expects a choppy recovery
but he has witnessed early stages of an upturn.
In its second quarter results UR’s same-store
www.simplex.ca/en 800-361-1486 rental revenues increased 2.7 percent and time
utilization increased 4.1 percent with contractors
opting to rent equipment instead of buy.
www.tricolift.com 800-468-7426 the list captures the north American aerials
market in a trough, at least in terms of fleet sizes.
It will be some years before we get back to the
www.neffrental.com 888-709-6333 fleet sizes of 2007 and 2008. n
www.midwestaerials.com 314-588-1300
the survey
research for Alh’s aeriaLs20 was carried
out during the summer of 2010. where
www.eqdepot.com 800-835-2128 companies were unwilling to provide data, we
made our own estimates based on company
financial reports and advice from industry
www.admarsupply.com 800-836-2367 contacts.
www.hr2fl.com 800-860-1648 Feedback
if you think you should be included in
next year’s aeriaLs20 (a20) listing,
www.moderngroup.com 800-866-3376 please contact Alh editor lindsey Anderson
at lindsey.anderson@khl.com or call at
(312) 795-5611.
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Marr scaffolding co.
Brand scaffolding
Near misses
The following companies did not make our
top 20, but are significant scaffold players
in north America.
sky-rider equipment
columbia industrial
US-based harsco Infrastructure is one of sTvA
the world’s biggest scaffolding companies,
r&r scaffold erectors
previously operating under brands including
patent, SGB and hunnebeck. Between 80 and 85 swing-lo suspended scaffold
percent of the Infrastructure business is outside seacoast scaffold & equipment
of the US, and the $230 million figure is based on
the survey a 20 percent share of the harsco Infrastructure east coast rigging & contracting
research for the scaffoLd20 was business in 2009. new england scaffold
conducted during the spring of 2010. the list provides some indication of the
where companies were unwilling to provide degree of consolidation of the north American
data, we made our own estimates based on scaffolding sector, with the top 20 companies
advice from annual reports and industry having an estimated $2.6 billion worth of
contacts. we thank those companies and revenues, which represents around 46 percent starting point
individuals who provided information. of the total market. our top five companies As we said at the start – this first listing is a
if you would like to be included in next represent an estimated 41 percent of the market. starting point. In the coming years we will be
year’s scaffoLd20, please contact despite that degree of consolidation it is able to refine and expand the list, and also
editor lindsey Anderson at lindsey. clear that the scaffold market remains highly make comparisons with previous year’s surveys.
anderson@khl.com or by calling fragmented – as reflected in the fact that our We welcome any suggestions, comments
312-795-5611. 20th company on the list, Gadsden Scaffold in or corrections and look forward to the 2011
Alabama, is a $3 million business. survey. n
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