Innovative Product Awards 2015: Category Winners

The 2015 Innovative Product Award top prize winners weren’t the only recipients of support from the panel of voters. Here are the 13 other category winners, some of which came fairly close to scoring the top prizes.

Michael Roth

Feb. 1, 2016

The 2015 Innovative Product Award top prizes went to Reachmaster’s Bibilift 26 BL track-mounted scissorlift, which won the Gold Award; Point-of-Rental Software’s Contract Fulfillment, winner of the Silver Award; and Manitou’s MRT 3255 Privilege Plus Rotating telescopic handler, winner of the Bronze Award. The top winners were category winners in high-reach, software and material handling respectively.

But they weren’t the only recipients of support from the panel of voters. There were 13 other category winners, some of which came fairly close to scoring the top prizes. In this issue, we’ll share with you the rest of the category winners and in months to come, the other entries will be profiled, a number of which came close to winning their categories. The following category winners heartily deserve to be mentioned along with the top three winners. Kudos from the RER staff and our panel of rental industry judges for these outstanding products.

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.