United Rentals Opens Seven New Specialty Branches in Five States
United Rentals has added seven branches to its specialty network, the company said. The United Rentals Trench Safety branches in San Diego, Calif., and Columbia, S.C., will provide worker training as well as engineered excavation support and confined space entry systems.
United Rentals is also opening Pump Solutions branches in Nashville, Tenn., and Savage, Minn., providing fluid transfer solutions ranging from high volume, high pressure pumps to small, portable units and custom fabrication.
United Rentals Tool Solutions branches in San Antonio and Oakdale, Minn., will provide temporary and long-term onsite tool management and maintenance. And the company is opening a Power & HVAC branch in Oakdale, Minn., to provide engineered solutions for temporary power, heating, cooling and ventilation, as well as disaster recovery services.
“Our latest U.S. expansion is the first phase of at least 14 new specialty locations planned for this year,” said Paul McDonnell, senior vice president, specialty operations. “These offerings are fundamentally important to our company’s strategy, both in terms of profitable growth and service to customers. Demand for our specialty range is growing, and we will continue to invest accordingly.
United Rentals has 897 branches in the United States and Canada and is No. 1 on the RER 100.
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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.