Netherlands’ Boels Rental Acquires IQ-Pass

June 6, 2017

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Europe’s Boels Rental has acquired the entire share capital of IQ-Pass, a major player in temporary access control management and security for industrial, construction, maritime and offshore projects. IQ-Pass started in 2008 from its branch in Breukelen, Netherlands, and is active in the Benelux countries and Germany.

For Boels Rental, the acquisition is a perfect fit for its strategy and positioning as a “Total Solutions Partner.” For business customers of Boels Rental, the intelligent technological solutions of IQ-Pass are a valuable addition to the current supply of products and services.

IQ-Pass has become the market leader in the Netherlands in a rapidly developing and innovative market, the company said. Under Boels’ supervision, IQ-Pass can accomplish the same on an international scale, maintaining challenging jobs for its employees, and continuous improvements for its customers.

“With laws and regulations becoming more and more severe, professional access control management is becoming a requirement for our customers at an increasing rate. In IQ-Pass, we have found a leading expert that shares our passion for solutions. A specialist in the field of access control and crowd management, with optimal customer support.”

Boels Rental is based in Sittard, Netherlands.

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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.