Portable Air L.C., a respected temperature control equipment rental provider, operating a multi-location platform in Cocoa, Fla., and Houston, has been acquired by Sunbelt Rentals. Portable Air was formed in 1998 and grew across the Southeast and Gulf Coast markets. Portable Air provides specialty temperature control equipment including cooling and dehumidification equipment combined with sophisticated application and technical capabilities. The full-service culture serves customers in industrial, municipal, military, and commercial end-markets.
"We're excited to join forces with Sunbelt,” said Chris Dunkin of Portable Air. “The combination of the Portable Air team's expertise and customer responsiveness with Sunbelt's expansive fleet, major project and customer capabilities, and winning culture will provide our customers best in class service and equipment.”
Sunbelt Rentals is No. 2 on the RER 100 with approximately 1,200 locations in North America and a rental fleet valued in excess of $14 billion.
Catalyst Strategic Advisors served as exclusive financial advisor to Portable Air L.C.
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.