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Volvo Presents, Receives Awards
Volvo Construction Equipment
North America awarded Alta
Equipment Company as the 2018
Dealer of the Year. The Detroit,
Mich.-based company demonstrated outstanding performance
over the last year, intensifying
efforts to improve customer experiences, and entering a new market
(Illinois) and reinforcing Volvo CE's
presence in the Midwest.
Volvo CE Dealer of the Year
Award recognizes the dealership in
North America that best promotes
the Volvo brand and the company's core strategies: to provide the highest uptime in the industry, offer unique
customer solutions and ensure the best value at any stage in a machine's lifecycle.
Alta Equipment entered the construction equipment business in 2010 to compliment an existing industrial equipment business and was able to leverage a solid customer base to generate cross-selling opportunities. By expanding
its territory into Central and Northern Illinois last year, the company boosted Volvo CE's market share in the Midwest.
In addition to being a top-performing dealer in the country, Alta Equipment was recognized by Crain's Detroit
Business as one of the 50 fastest-growing companies in 2018.
"If there are two words to describe the 2018 Volvo CE Dealer of the Year, they are 'can do,'" said Stephen Roy,
president of sales region Americas, Volvo CE. "Alta Equipment's team has demonstrated an incredible capacity to
solve challenges and to deliver a superior customer experience."
Volvo CE also received awards, from EquipmentWatch, the leading data researcher for the construction equipment industry.

Two Volvo machines-EC700 crawler excavator (large-size category) and the L180 wheel loader (small-size category)-earned the 2019 Lowest Cost of Ownership award, and the L20 wheel loader was named as 2019 Highest
Retained Value. It's the fourth straight year that EquipmentWatch recognized Volvo CE with awards.
EquipmentWatch annual awards are based on extensive analysis of millions of data records to determine which
model series retains the highest percentage of its original value and lowest five-year total cost of ownership. Analysts looked at the most-popular equipment series observed on the resale channel over a 12-month period in 2018.
Volvo CE's machines were chosen for their projected value retention over a five-year period.
"The goal of the EquipmentWatch awards program is not only to help equipment buyers objectively understand
the best performing machines," said Garrett Schemmel, vice president, EquipmentWatch. "The program is also
designed to recognize manufacturers for building these higher quality, durable and cost-friendly machines that
power our industry." *
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Volvo Construction Equipment North America, (717)532-9181, volvoce.com
Alta Equipment Company, (800) 449-4757, altaequipment.com

APRIL 2019 | UConOnline.com

faster and safer. Additionally, the
PiPECrawler was made especially
narrow. This means we can plan
with small working widths. Since the
pipe uses an existing route, namely
a service road in the forest, the tree
population is deliberately spared."
Proven in intensive
collaboration
The concept of the PiPECrawler is a
patented in-house development of
Naturspeicher GmbH, a subsidiary
of the Max Bögl corporate group.
Headquartered in Sengenthal near
Neumarkt, Bavaria, Max Bögl is
one of the top-10 largest German
companies in the construction
industry. The pilot project, which
has the world's highest wind
turbines, is being built in Gaildorf,
Baden-Württemberg.

Sunstate Rentals
sunstateequip.com

Sunstate Equipment Co., LLC,
entered the trench safety equipment
rental arena with the opening of its
Trench Safety Division in Houston.
"At Sunstate, our goal is to provide
best-in-class service to all of our
loyal customers," said Jeff Vance,
senior vice president of Operations.
"Our new Sunstate Trench Safety
Division allows us to broaden our
product offering to our existing
customer base while also introducing our top-quality service to
a new segment of customers with
specialized shoring needs."
The new trench division is being
overseen by long-time trench industry expert, Gene Nowlan, manager.
He brings 16 years of trench safety

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