Riwal Extends its Green Rental Fleet with JLG Machines
Riwal, the aerial work platform and telehandler rental and sales specialist, has taken its first delivery of the new 100-percent electric JLG EC boom lifts.
The new articulating boom lifts are the JLG EC450AJ, with a working height of 15.77 meters, and the JLG EC520AJ with a working height of 18 meters.
Both machine models come with lithium ion phosphate batteries and electric motors, are emissions free and suitable for both indoor and outdoor use, including rough terrain conditions.
The new JLG machine types will initially be added to Riwal’s rental fleet in Denmark and The Netherlands, with other European countries to follow later in the year. In recent years, Riwal has also converted diesel machines to electric machines, enabling the company to offer 100-percent electric machines with working heights up to 43 meters.
Riwal is the JLG dealer in The Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia and Kazakhstan, and is offering the new JLG machine types to rental companies and end users in those countries.
"Our customers are increasingly demanding 100-percent electric machines to work at height, in order to execute their projects in the most sustainable way,” said Riwal CEO Pedro Torres. “We are proud to be among the first companies to purchase the new JLG machine types. As part of our Lifting Sustainability program, an increasing share of our fleet investment is in electric machines. In Europe, 65 percent of Riwal’s rental fleet is electric. By 2025 our aim is to have 75 percent electric machines in our European rental fleet."
Karel Huijser, general manager and vice president for JLG in EMEAIR, added: “We are pleased to see Riwal taking delivery of its first EC electric construction boom lifts. As a company we encourage our partners to embark on the road to electrification, including setting goals to further electrify fleets and emitting less emissions and noise. These EC booms are among the first for JLG to be delivered into the EMEAIR region, and we are very excited about their field operation and performance.”
The Riwal Holding Group, established in 1968 and headquartered in Dordrecht, The Netherlands, is an international rental and sales specialist of aerial work platforms, telehandlers and forklifts. Riwal employs more than 2,600 people, has 70 depot operations in 16 countries, and operates more than 20,000 units and conducts business in more than 70 countries.
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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.