Skyjack Shows New Telehandlers, Reaffirms Commitment to Rental
Skyjack presented its new TH-Series telehandlers for the first time at the World of Concrete show in Las Vegas. As the Guelph, Ontario-based company looked at the challenge of developing Tier 4 Final telehandlers, it decided to start from scratch, re-assessing every aspect of its machines. The new TH units offer simpler rear-axle stabilization, hydraulics systems, outriggers, controls, engine servicing, electronics and option packages.
Also Skyjack has begun a partnership with Montreal-based CVTCorp to develop a true mechanical continuously variable transmission option for the new telehander series.
“The mechanical CVT greatly increases efficiency over a hydrostatic system,” said Barry Greenaway, product manager, Skyjack. “It also allows the engine to stay in its ideal rpm range, resulting in significant fuel savings. What’s more, these benefits partner perfectly with our SmartTorque 74-hp engines, which already reduce fuel use, and will allow rental companies to reduce net costs to their customers without dropping rental rates.”
Skyjack president Brad Boehler spoke about the importance of the rental industry to the company. “Looking to the future, we remain committed to the rental industry as we aim to become a $1 billion organization in the near future,” Boehler said. “We have three core elements to this plan: Firstly, to maintain and defend our scissor share globally, through additional product and an increase in our geographic presence. Secondly, to grow our boom products to become a full-line boom supplier. We have launched three new booms in the past three years and we will launch three new booms in the next 18 months. And, thirdly, to develop our telehandler offering.”
The new telehandlers include the SJ643 TH, a 6,000-pound maximum lift capacity unit; the SJ843TH, an 8,000-pound machine; the SJ1044TH, a 10,000-pound capacity telehandler, and the SJ1056TH, which has a 10,000 capacity and a maximum lift height of 56 feet, three inches.
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Michael Roth
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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.