SmartEquip Adds Eight More Manufacturers and Distributors to Network
SmartEquip has added eight more companies to its network: Armadillo Tire, Bernier International, Flagro USA, Graco, Makinex Construction Products, Namco Manufacturing, Silverstone Inc. and Summit Supply. These manufacturers and distributors will be able to provide significant improvement in transactional and operational efficiencies, streamline their internal workflow and drive profits for themselves and their customers by leveraging SmartEquip’s online parts support network.
SmartEquip serves more than 40,000 users and technicians in more than 6,000 locations, including 75 percent of the construction equipment locations of the top 20 of the RER 100.
Armadillo Tire distributes solid tires for skid-steer loaders, forklifts, backhoes and other machines. Bernier International is a manufacturer of air curtains for commercial, architectural and industrial settings. Flagro USA is a provider of construction heaters. Graco is a leading manufacturer of fluid-handling equipment and systems, particularly paint sprayers. Makinex provides a variety of equipment for construction, rental, landscaping and infrastructure. Namco is a specialist in carpet-cleaning machines. Silverstone specializes in off-road tires, wheels, rubber tracks, flat-proofing and foam-fill products and more. Summit Supply manufactures tires and rubber tracks for a variety of construction machines.
“No other fleet support network allows a supplier to be embedded into their customers’ procurement process like SmartEquip does,” says Ron Piccolo, SmartEquip’s executive vice president of sales and marketing.
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.