Altorfer Caterpillar Opens New Springfield, Ill., Branch

Altorfer Inc., a Caterpillar dealer serving 88 counties in Eastern Iowa, Northern Missouri and Central Illinois, opened a new facility recently in Springfield, Ill.

Michael Roth

June 30, 2016

Altorfer Caterpillar39s new Springfield Ill facility includes a Cat Rental Store — Altorfer Caterpillar's new Springfield, Ill., facility, includes a Cat Rental Store.

Altorfer Inc., a Caterpillar dealer serving 88 counties in Eastern Iowa, Northern Missouri and Central Illinois, opened a new facility recently in Springfield, Ill. The new facility will offer construction equipment, rental and on-highway truck repair services. The branch includes a Cat Rental Store.

Altorfer held an open house May 25 with almost 300 people in attendance, offering door prizes, equipment demos and facility tours.

“We are striving to provide our customers with a best-in-class customer experience,” said Mark Hanson, vice president of Altorfer’s construction division. “We are pleased to give our construction, rental services and power systems teams the opportunity to work in a modern, well-located, and professional facility. We are in position to serve our customers like never before.”

Altorfer is based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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.