SmartEquip Adds Lincoln Electric to its Network

SmartEquip has added Lincoln Electric to its network. The partnership will provide owners of Lincoln Electric welding equipment with all the critical product information and parts support catalogs they need to maintain their fleet.

Michael Roth

July 5, 2017

“Fleet customers throughout North America, many of which are already mutual customers of Lincoln Electric and SmartEquip, will now be able to access Lincoln Electric’s service parts business through this proven software solution,” said Matt Fleming, construction and rental sales manager, Lincoln Electric.

The SmartEquip Network provides product support information for more than 280 suppliers to fleets in North America and Europe.

“Our network has seen significant growth over the past year and the addition of quality manufacturers like Lincoln Electric represent important milestones for SmartEquip,” added Ron Piccolo, executive vice president, SmartEquip.

Fleet owners who are partnered with SmartEquip’s network can expect the availability of Lincoln Electric’s parts and service content in July.

Lincoln Electric is a leader in the design, development and manufacture of arc welding products, robotic arc welding systems, plasma and oxyfuel cutting equipment, and has a leading global position in the brazing and soldering alloys market.

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.