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Ramirent Finland Acquires Site Module Rental Business

May 8, 2019
Ramirent Finland Ltd has signed an agreement to acquire the site module rental business of Rocla Solutions Oy, one of the leading internal logistic companies in Finland.

Ramirent Finland Ltd has signed an agreement to acquire the site module rental business of Rocla Solutions Oy, one of the leading internal logistic companies in Finland. The deal includes the module fleet and existing rental contracts.

Rocla Solutions’ module business has mainly been focusing on industrial and logistic companies. In addition to the announced transaction, the companies will further strengthen their co-operation in providing full-scale rental services, especially for larger industrial and logistic customers.

"This acquisition supports perfectly our strategy execution in Finland,” said Mikael Kämpe, managing director of Ramirent Finland. The Rocla Solution’s site modules are modern and well equipped and they fully complement our rental module offering. With this transaction, we will further strengthen our position as the leading rental service provider for the industrial customers in Finland."

"The deal will strengthen our co-operation with Ramirent,” added Jukka Viinikainen, managing director of Rocla Solutions Oy. “Intralogistics solutions including strong development of digital services are at the heart of our business. Combining our knowledge of internal logistics with Ramirent`s offering enables us to offer more extensive solutions for our customers." 

Ramirent`s industrial customers include shipyards as well as forest, mining, steel and oil and gas industries. In 2018, the industrial segment represented 18 percent of the net sales of the Ramirent Group. Ramirent has a broad offering for industrial customers from light tools to complicated scaffolding solutions and special equipment.

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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.