ERA Newsletter | July 2021
The 15th annual ERA Convention 'Smart Rental' will take place on 29 and 30 at the Postillion Hotel in Amsterdam after a two year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the European Rental Awards Cocktail and Dinner at the end of the first day.

The event will be the first gathering of the European rental industry since the last Convention in Madrid in May 2019, and up to 300 leading voices from the industry and value chain are expected to get together to meet, network and learn.

Read more about the ERA Convention and European Rental Awards, or register here.

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The ERA Equipment CO2 Calculator is now available in Dutch, French, German, Italian and Spanish. With the translations, ERA wishes to make this tool available to a broader audience to enable more equipment stakeholders to make more sustainable choices and minimise their impact on environment.

Read more here.
The ‘ERA CSR KPI Guidance Framework’, a new tool to help rental companies assess their current approach to sustainability performance reporting and rate how well they perform against an industry framework.


Download the Framework here.
The ‘ERA guide to cybersecurity leading practice in the equipment rental industry’ is a great tool to help equipment rental companies plan, develop and continuously improve their cybersecurity.

The guide defines the enterprise-wide scope of cybersecurity interventions, identifies the core elements of a successful strategy, including the special factors that may impact rental companies, and outlines leading practices being adopted today by industry leaders.

Download the guide here.
The latest ERA Market Report update confirms the regional discrepancy in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a worsening picture for the southern European countries and the UK, and a better-than-expected situation for countries in central and northern Europe.

Overall, the update shows an improved picture for the rental industry, but a worse performance for the construction sector, in 2020 (-6.6% and -5.2%, respectively) compared to the previous update, but with a positive forecast for 2021 (+3.6% and +2.1%) and 2022 (+4.5% and +2.9%).

Read more here.
The ERA Technical Committee has released the results of its work on telematics – “Data points telematics ERA” – detailing the telematics priorities of equipment rental companies for three categories of equipment: earth moving, access, and generators and compressors.

These documents are based on the ISO 15143-3 standard, published in 2016, and are intended to be used as guidance to help OEMs to prioritise the data that rental companies need.

Download the documents here.
What does the ERA/IRN RentalTracker survey for the second quarter of 2021 tell us about the rental industry recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic?

The response from the more than 155 companies who took part in the survey was overwhelmingly positive: 

  • 65% said business conditions are improving
  • 70% reported increasing rates of equipment use
  • 74% expect an improved business environment a year from now

Read more here.
ERA welcomes new members
ERA has recently welcomed 2 new members to the association.

- Bergmann Baumaschinen GmbH is a rental company specialising in dumpers. Bergmann Baumaschinen buys the dumpers directly from Bergmann Maschinenbau and rents them out from 6 depots across Germany.

- Continest is an innovative foldable container solution, specially developed for relatively short-term use, anywhere where there is a need for handling large crowds for temporary accommodation, office/meeting rooms, first aid, command post, guard post, storage, service area, cooling and heating purposes.

Read more about the benefits of ERA membership and how to join here.
For more information: era@erarental.org | +32 2 761 1604 | www.erarental.org