Boels Rental Places Largest Order Ever for Atlas Copco Light Compaction Machines

Atlas Copco’s MCT in Essen, the company’s customer center for construction equipment in Germany, last month received an order from European rental chain Boels Rental to supply 400 plate compactors and rammers between 80 and 500 kilograms.

Michael Roth

April 8, 2016

An Atlas Copco LT6005 rammer on a jobsite.

Boels Rental will distribute the machines to its European outlets from where they will rent them to end-users. Delivery is schedule for the second quarter.

The forward and reversible plate compactors supplied to Boels Rental will include a number of new LG 504 models equipped with compaction indicators, a system of lights that shows when sufficient compaction has been achieved. It also reduces the risk of over-compaction, which can lead to unsatisfactory end results and unnecessary wear on the machine.

The order includes LT 6005 award-winning rammers, equipped with purpose-built Honda GXR120 engines.

“We are very pleased that Boels Rental, one of the leading European equipment rental companies, has chosen Atlas Copco as a partner for light compaction equipment,” said Rune Magnusson, vice president marketing, light construction equipment, Atlas Copco Construction Tools. “Our heritage for developing light compaction equipment goes back to 1947 when we launched the first vibratory plate.”

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.