Keen Utility Evanston Work Boots Produce Energy

New for Spring ‘24, the Evanston from Keen Utility offers the burly protection of a work boot with the athletic feel and flexibility of a sneaker, the company says.
May 8, 2024

New for Spring ‘24, the Evanston from Keen Utility offers the burly protection of a work boot with the athletic feel and flexibility of a sneaker, the company says. Product highlights include a responsive KEEN.ReGEN cushioning that provides up to 50-percent energy return with every step as well as carbon-fiber safety toes that are unobtrusive and 15-percent lighter than steel. Other standout features include a KEEN.DRY waterproof, breathable membrane and full-grain Barnyard Resistant leather upper to keep you shielded from jobsite messes. A tough worker with an energetic sole, the Evanston is available for both men and women.

Editor’s Note: I don’t typically endorse products, but I’ve owned a couple of pairs of Keen shoes, a steel-toed work shoe that I don’t use often but is very sturdy, and a pair of more casual work shoes that are excellent, very comfortable and decent-enough looking to wear out to dinner. Good quality, in my humble opinion!

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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.

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