Doosan Portable Power Adds Roland Machinery Branch to Dealer Network

Doosan Portable Power has added Roland Machinery’s Bolingbrook, Ill., location as an authorized dealer of Doosan air compressors, generators and light towers. Bolingbrook is located in the southwestern suburbs of Chicago.

Michael Roth

Aug. 8, 2017

Headquartered in Springfield, Ill., Roland Machinery has served the heavy construction industry for more than 50 years.

A long-time Doosan dealer, Roland Machinery operates more than 15 locations in Illinois, Wisconsin, eastern Missouri, northwestern Indiana and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. In addition to these locations, Roland will now distribute Doosan Portable Power air compressors, generators and light towers to customers throughout the Chicago suburbs.

“Roland Machinery has been in business for half a century and understands the needs of heavy construction contractors involved in many different markets,” said Rich Basarich, district manager, Doosan Portable Power. “We look forward to helping them expand this area of their business by providing customers in more counties with access to Doosan Portable Power equipment.”

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.