RER’s Innovative Product Award Honorable Mention – MEC Micro 26
RER’s Innovative Product Award Honorable Mention – MEC Micro 26
Manufacturer: MEC Aerial Work Platforms
Key Innovation: Micro size almost 2 feet shorter than other 26-foot scissorlifts in the market.
Manufacturer’s Description: MEC extended its Micro Scissors offering and extensive line of DC electric slab scissors with the Micro 26 slab scissor lift. There’s strong demand for a traditional construction-duty scissor that enables work up to 32 feet with a smaller footprint for easier access and maneuverability. MEC’s Micro 26 fulfills this need with its short length of 74 inches, a compact size almost two feet shorter than other 26-foot scissor lifts.
MEC’s Micro 26 is an innovative alternative to traditional scissor lifts. Its micro design gives easy accessibility in small spaces including personnel and freight elevators. This is a remarkable advantage because of its high level of maneuverability into tight work areas traditional scissors cannot access. The Micro 26 is also a better solution over vertical lifts. Its robust scissor design and large platform substantially increases productivity. It features a spacious, true two-person platform with generous workspace. Its standard 36-inch roll-out extension deck includes incremental lock positions, maximizing productivity and material usage. Another benefit of its platform is that it gives 360-degree work accessibility so the operator can move freely.
The Micro 26 has fewer leak points in addition to the optional MEC Leak Containment System, thus the Micro 26 is preferred for large data center applications and other sites with finished concrete flooring. Direct electric drive is ideal because of its fast drive speeds and quiet operation. The Micro 26 also gets up to three times the duty cycle with direct electric drive, allowing more work to get done with less time charging the machine. This unit complies with the new ANSI standards.
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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.