Altorfer Rents and Sullair Continue Partnership Amid Expansion
Sullair, an industry leader in innovative compressed air solutions since 1965, is expanding its partnership with Altorfer Rents in supplying high-quality portable air compressors to the construction, agriculture, landscaping, mining and other markets. Altorfer Rents has seen recent rapid growth in the Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana regions and plans to open new rental stores in Oglesby and Quincy, Ill., in November 2021 and early 2022. Sullair air compressors will be available for rent and sale, and Altorfer will also install Sullair industrial compressors for use in its in-house service shops at the new locations.
Altorfer Rents supplies a variety of industry with equipment and tool rental and sales and service including heavy machinery, power supply and specialized tools. Sullair supplies Altorfer Rents with several air solutions small and large, including portable compressors from 185 to 1600 cfm and pneumatic air tools.
“What Sullair provides is invaluable for us,” said Tim Gerken, vice president of rental and lift trucks at Altorfer. “Sullair is a very solid and industry-standard brand out there. Our partnership with Cat engines and Sullair machines is invaluable to us and our growth strategy.”
Sullair has been a supplier and trusted partner to Altorfer for more than 30 years. Gerken attributes that partnership to not only the durability of the Sullair brand, but the trusted relationship between Altorfer and Sullair team members. “When you have the quality of Sullair products and great people behind you, you can bring to bear great solutions. It is a great partnership,” added Gerken.
Altorfer Cat relocated from its Elmhurst store and opened three new locations in 2021. A rental location in Naperville, Ill., a power systems location in Addison, Ill., and two construction locations in East Dundee and Mokena, Ill. The new modern facilities have helped to expand the company’s capabilities while serving both new and current customers in the Chicagoland area. Altorfer’s service territory now includes 35 locations across portions of Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and Indiana. The two new locations will cement the company’s presence beyond Chicagoland and provide rental, sales and service to customers in central Illinois.
“We represent the best brands in the construction and industrial equipment markets, and we hire and train our people to be up to speed and competent to support the equipment and brands we carry,” said Gerken. “Our team members provide more than equipment; they provide solutions and Sullair is a strong part of that solution.”
Sullair is globally recognized as a leading manufacturer of air compressors for use in manufacturing, oil and gas operations, food processing, construction and more. Sullair has manufacturing capabilities in Michigan City, Ind.; Suzhou, China; and a JV (IHI-Sullair) based in Suzhou. For more information, visit www.sullair.com. Sullair is a Hitachi Group Company.
(Above, from left, Sullair president John Randall and Derek Altorfer.)
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Michael Roth
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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.