Crown Equipment Corp. Adds Michigan Sales and Service Facility

Crown Equipment Corp., a leading international material handling distribution and sales company, has opened a new sales and service location near Grand Rapids, Mich.

Michael Roth

July 17, 2018

Photo by Crown Equipment

Brand new Crown Equipment Kentwood, Mich., sales and service facility.

Crown Equipment Corp., a leading international material handling distribution and sales company, has opened a new sales and service location near Grand Rapids, Mich. The new, expanded facility will replace the previous location to help the company meet growing customer needs in Grand Rapids and throughout western Michigan.

Located in Kentwood, Mich., the Crown Lift Trucks facility offers customers a complete selection of material handling technologies, products and services: forklifts, warehouse design solutions, Integrity Parts and Service System, automated warehouse solutions, and Crown's wireless InfoLink fleet and operator management system. The location also offers comprehensive battery and charger service, providing a one-stop shop to help ensure customers have the power they need for maximum forklift uptime.

“We continue to see growth and opportunity in this region, especially among our diverse group of customers, including food distributors and automotive manufacturers,” said Eric McNutt, branch manager, Crown Equipment. “This larger facility will accommodate the resources we need to fully service our customers in this growing market. It will also allow us to continue to provide the advanced equipment, technology and service they need to support growth, control costs and enhance safety and energy efficiency.”

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.