Caterpillar Launches Program for Rental Customers’ Transition to EU Stage V

Caterpillar today announced a plan to assist Cat Rental Power mobile generator customers with a successful transition from European Union (EU) Stage IIIA to EU Stage V emission standards.

Michael Roth

July 25, 2018

2 min read

Caterpillar is helping its Cat Rental Power generator customers with the transition to EU Stage V regulations.

Caterpillar today announced a plan to assist Cat Rental Power mobile generator customers with a successful transition from European Union (EU) Stage IIIA to EU Stage V emission standards. In accordance with EU Regulation 2016/1628 for Non-Road Mobile Machinery, Caterpillar will continue to offer EU Stage IIIA transition engines for up to 18 months after EU Stage V goes into effect. For all engines below 56 kW and above 130 kW, the effective date is January 1, 2019. For engines in the 56 to 130 kW range, the effective date is January 1, 2020.

Caterpillar will begin phasing in a complete range of mobile generator sets to meet these new requirements, with all available Cat mobile generators meeting Stage V emission standards by 2021. In addition, all Cat mobile generators, including the transition products, will meet the new Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) compliance standard effective July 2019. RoHS prohibits 10 hazardous substances currently found in electrical and electronic components that are restricted by the EU. The RoHS directive was introduced by the EU in 2002, with the most recent phase requiring all mobile products – including generator sets – placed on the market beginning in July 2019 to be in compliance.

“EU Stage V engines require additional hardware and a significantly greater level of complexity,” said Gareth Osborne, product definition manager, Caterpillar Electric Power. “At Caterpillar, we are well-versed in evolving European emission standards and have guided machine and generator set customers through every phase of these regulations. Through our unique position as both the engine supplier and generator set packager, we can ensure all EU Stage V packages our customers receive are fully integrated and tested for optimal performance and usability.”

All Cat mobile generator sets are available through the Cat dealer network. Cat dealers are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to assist with emergency rental needs. Caterpillar’s service network ensures access to prompt, quality repairs by trained technicians at Caterpillar authorized service locations.

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.