Tioga Air Heaters Acquires Reliable Construction Heaters, Mobile Air

Tioga Air Heaters, a Minnesota-based manufacturer with sales and rental of direct and indirect fired heaters, acquired Reliable Construction Heaters, based in Cleveland, and Mobile Air Inc., headquartered in Detroit, bringing together three industry leaders in climate control equipment rentals.

Michael Roth

Oct. 23, 2015

2 min read

Tioga Air Heaters acquired two other climate control firms giving the company 20 climate control equipment rental and sales locations.

The combined strength of Tioga, Reliable and Mobile Air total 20 branch locations, expertise in a diverse set of industries and a rental fleet with a broad array of heating, cooling and dehumidification equipment. Collectively, the Tioga Family of Companies offer more than 100 years of experience designing and manufacturing climate control products covering the Northeast, Midwest and Mountain regions.

Tioga offers short- and long-term rental solutions and equipment sales to a variety of markets including agriculture, construction, education facilities, entertainment, food and beverage, healthcare, mining, oil and gas, paint and coating, power generation, processing facilities and refineries, steel mills and more. The company’s geographic reach extends throughout the continental United States, Alaska, Canada, Russia, Kazakhstan and China.

Tioga’s heating portfolio offers direct and indirect fired heaters, recycled air heaters, electric and steam heats and ground thaw units. The cooling portfolio includes portable, temporary, emergency use 1 to 5 ton water-cooled and air-cooled AC units, 12-30 ton outdoor AC systems, server-room air conditioners, spot coolers and MovinCool units. The dehumidifier portfolio offers portable units capable of removing 9 to 22 gallons of water per hour, quickly removing moisture to protect and finish construction work and keep construction projects on schedule.

Accessories include rigid and flexible gas hoses, rigid and flexible insulated and non-insulated ducting, fans, HEPA filters and more.

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.