Able Equipment Rental Acquires Pennsylvania’s Key Equipment

Able Equipment Rental has purchased the assets of Key Equipment Inc. of Honey Brook, Pa., which will operate as the newest branch of Able Equipment Rental.

Michael Roth

Jan. 10, 2018

2 min read

Able Equipment Rental has purchased the assets of Key Equipment Inc. of Honey Brook, Pa., which will operate as the newest branch of Able Equipment Rental. Honey Brook is located in Chester County, in central Pennsylvania. Able will retain the current Key staff to operate the branch as Able’s fourth location in the northeast.

The new branch is well situated to deliver equipment throughout central Pennsylvania.

“We’re delighted that Key Equipment is joining the Able family,” said Steven Laganas, Able’s CEO. “Key’s expertise and familiarity with the Central Pennsylvania market was certainly one of the factors that helped us in our decision-making. I look forward to partnering with all of Key’s talented employees.”

“From a strategic perspective, it will allow us to continue to serve as a trusted provider of aerial lifts, telehandlers, forklifts, and mini-cranes for Key’s current commercial and industrial clients,” said Chris Pera, Able’s chief operating officer. “We’ll be able to offer excavation, portable power, air, heat, and traffic control equipment, plus specialty equipment such as rotating telehandlers, and under-bridge access, all throughout the mid-Atlantic region that Key served.”

Able Equipment Rental is based in Deer Park, N.Y., and has branches in Edison, N.J., and Pennsauken, N.J. The company is No. 69 on the RER 100.

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.