18.10.2024

More Easy for Boels

Dutch rental group Boels has taken delivery of 24 more Easy Lift Spider lifts.

Boels purchased its first Easy Lift spider in 2008, and became a direct major account in 2011, the latest order includes four 13 metre R130, four 16 metre R160, six 19 metre R190s and eight 24 metre RA24, topped off by two 31 metre RA31 models, these first in the Boels fleet which now includes 199 Easy lifts.

All the machines are painted in the company’s orange livery and equipped with non-marking tracks, outrigger mats and Trackunit telematics. The RA24 and RA31 units featuring automatic self-levelling outriggers a ‘Home’ function for automatic stowage and emergency electric auxiliary pumps, while being equipped with the EasyCom remote diagnostics systems.

Boels was set up by Pierre Boels senior in 1977 as a small local rental company with products such as ladders and compressors. He opened his first proper yard in Sittard in 1980 and began expanding outside of the Netherlands in 1991 with a move into Belgium in 1991 and the following year Germany. Pierre’s son Pierre junior, took over as chief executive in 1996, and kicked off the aerial lift fleet properly in 1998 when he added boom lifts to the product line up. In the three years between 2006 and 2009 the company expanded into the Czech Republic, Austria, Italy and Slovakia and Poland. Since 2012 growth has accelerated thanks to several acquisitions, taking it to the point where it is the second largest equipment rental company in Europe after Loxam.