RER Innovative Product Award Honorable Mention -- JLG 2632R/3246R Scissors
Product Name: JLG® 2632R/3246R Scissors
Manufacturer: JLG Industries Inc.
Key Innovation: These lifts feature the exclusive variable tilt technology. This intuitive feature allows operators to elevate to limited heights when working on slight slopes, maximizing the work envelope.
Manufacturer’s Description: The 2632R and 3246R are built for rugged reliability and designed around affordability and serviceability. The 2632R offers several well-known features of the R Series, with an outdoor capability of 20 feet. This ANSI 92.20 compliant lift allows operators to drive through a single doorway and work indoors at a platform height of 26 feet.
The 3246R is the lightest lift in its class. Also ANSI 92.20 compliant, the 3246R is ideal for applications that require a lightweight machine with a 32-foot platform height.
The entire family of R Series slab scissor lifts features intuitive technologies that differentiate them from the competition. Among the innovations, customers will appreciate the exclusive variable tilt technology, which allows operators to elevate to limited heights when working on slight slopes, maximizing the work envelope.
The 2632R and 3246R contain benefits common to other units in the R Series, including:
- A reliable and simple pothole protection system with a single limit switch and harness, along with fewer moving parts for reduced service requirements
- Easier access to internal machine components for simplified servicing
- Zero-turn radius, improving maneuverability
- Variable tilt technology with visual indicator, allows for work on slight slopes
- Intuitive and comfortable controls that are common within the line
- An all-steel platform, steel component trays and recessed ground control panel for long-term machine durability
The R Series shared design allows for easy service and maintenance along with commonality of parts. These benefits allow JLG to deliver machines that are intuitive for operators and simple to work on for technicians, in addition to simplifying training and operational efficiency.
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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.