NESCO Specialty Rentals has completed the acquisition of N&L Line Equipment. N&L manufactures products related to the live-line maintenance of electric utility lines. The N&L offering includes transmission tools up to 800 kV, substation maintenance tools, and distribution hotline tools.
N&L, headquartered in Poulsbo, Wash., also has a rubber-testing laboratory and tool repair service. H&L has the capability of testing and certifying all types of insulating rubber goods and insulated tools, as well as repair and refurbish all commonly used tools, hot sticks and grounds.
N&L Line Equipment will become part of NESCO’s Utility Equipment Outfitters division, accelerating growth to be an even more comprehensive resource for parts, tools and accessories for powerline professionals in North America. In 2015 NESCO created the UEO division to focus on offering parts, tools and accessories to the utility, rail and communication markets as well as other specialized industries.
“I was thoroughly impressed the first time I visited the N&L facility,” said Jacobson. “It is a first-class operation Nick Bair has developed. The N&L package offers tools and servies that are essential to satisfying today’s demands for servicing the utility grid. Our customers will certainly benefit from the acquisition.”
NESCO Specialty Rentals is a leading equipment and service provider to the infrastructure, transmission, distribution, communications and rail industries, providing aerial devices, boom trucks, cranes, digger derricks, pressure drills, stringing gear, hi-rail equipment, repair parts, tools and accessories, with one of the industry’s largest specialty rental fleets and service networks in North America.
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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.