Skyjack Units Working on UAE Urbanization Projects

Skyjack is expanding its presence in the United Arab Emirates with an order from AJI Heavy Equipment Rentals, including SJIII 3219 DC electric scissors, SJIII 4626s, and SJ6832 RT scissor lifts.

Michael Roth

March 16, 2018

From left Dean Jones general manager AJI Heavy Equipment Rental David Hall of Skyjack and Hannes Van Graan technical manager AJI with one of their new SJIII 4626 DC electric scissor lifts — From left: Dean Jones, general manager AJI Heavy Equipment Rental; David Hall of Skyjack; and Hannes Van Graan, technical manager AJI, with one of their new SJIII 4626 DC electric scissor lifts.

Skyjack is expanding its presence in the United Arab Emirates with an order from AJI Heavy Equipment Rentals, including SJIII 3219 DC electric scissors, SJIII 4626s, and SJ6832 RT scissor lifts. The machines, delivered recently, are already on rent on a wide range of indoor and outdoor applications within the UAE.

“Skyjack produces strong, durable, reliable scissor lifts and are easy to do business with, which made them an ideal choice to enhance our modern and comprehensive fleet,” said Dean Jones, founder and general manager of AJI Heavy Equipment Rental LLC.

Skyjack SJIII 3219 DC electric scissors have a maximum working height of 7.79 meters (25 feet) and a maximum weight capacity of 227 kg (500 pounds). The SJIII 4626 DC electric scissors offers a maximum working height of 32 feet and maximum weight capacity of 1,000 pounds. Skyjack’s SJ6832 RT diesel-powered rough terrain scissor lift offers a maximum working height of 38 feet, maximum weight capacity of 1,000 pounds, cross over symmetrical four-wheel drive, and self-levelling outriggers.

“We’re excited to be working with yet another company in the region and it’s great to see these new units operating on major projects,” said David Hall, product and business development manager, Skyjack.

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.