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Company Headquarters: Wisconsin, US Founded: 1966 Workforce: ~ 500 Company Working: Placon Corporation, established in 1966 by Tom Mohs in Madison, Wisconsin, is a privately held, family-owned enterprise renowned for its innovative and sustainable plastic packaging solutions. Specializing in thermoformed and injection-molded packaging, Placon serves diverse sectors including food, medical, and retail markets, with a primary focus on North America. The company's commitment to sustainability is exemplified by its EcoStar line, which utilizes post-consumer recycled PET materials. In 2011, Placon became one of the first thermoforming companies to establish an on-site recycling facility, processing millions of recycled PET bottles and thermoforms daily to produce EcoStar material. Placon operates additional manufacturing facilities in West Springfield, Massachusetts; Elkhart, Indiana; and Plymouth, Minnesota. The Madison facility encompasses a 340,000-square-foot corporate space housing advanced thermoforming and extrusion capabilities, an in-house design and tooling center, and ISO 13485 certified cleanrooms for medical packaging. Furthermore, the company acquired Barger Packaging in 2011 to expand its medical packaging offerings, Plastic Packaging Corporation in 2014 to enter the injection-molded container market, and Brookdale Plastics in 2016 to strengthen its retail and medical packaging segments.

Company Headquarters: Helsinki, Finland Founded: 1955 Workforce: ~ 3,700 Company Working: Ramirent is one of the leading service companies offering equipment on a rental basis for construction and other industries. It is engaged in the business of renting construction machinery and equipment in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, and Slovakia. The company offers light machinery, including painting and drilling, concrete mixing, and power & heating systems. It is also engaged in providing planning, electricity, installation, and maintenance services. It offers support equipment, along with weather covers, fences and gates, guard rails, fall safety systems, fall protection, and other traffic safety equipment. Moreover, the company also provides heavy equipment and machinery such as loaders, excavators, rollers and compaction equipment, and pumping equipment. It also offers lifts, climbing platforms, tower cranes, and personnel hoists, among others. Additionally, the company provides worksite planning, on-site support, condition monitoring, logistics, safety planning, fuel services, and training services. In addition to the construction industry, it serves shipyards, public sector, entrepreneurs, and households. The company specializes in offering machine rental, equipment rental, and dynamic rental solutions.

Company Headquarters: Vantaa, Finland Founded: 1953 Workforce: ~ 2,589 Company Working: Cramo Plc (Cramo), is a construction equipment rental service provider. The company offers construction machinery and equipment, hoist, transmission and rack equipment, warehouse and pallet trucks, excavation machinery, loaders, and safety products. It provides work platforms, forklift trucks, scaffolding, modular space, dumpers, demolition robots, rollers for soil and asphalt compaction, generators, and drill rigs, among others. Cramo positions itself as a full-service provider, offering not only equipment rental but also related services. These services include equipment delivery and pickup, maintenance and repairs, on-site training, and logistics support. By providing comprehensive services, Cramo aims to offer a hassle-free rental experience for its customers. Cramo offers services such as construction site services, business support, modular space customer support, and modular space facilities management. Cramo Group operates across multiple countries, primarily in Northern and Eastern Europe. The company has a strong presence in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, and the Czech Republic. Cramo has an extensive network of rental depots and branches to serve its customers' equipment needs in these regions.

Company Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan Founded: 1967 Workforce: ~ 3,077 Company Working: Nikken Corp (Nikken), a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corp, is a construction company that rents civil engineering and construction related products. Nikken Corporation is a Japanese company that operates in the construction and engineering industry. The company specializes in providing a wide range of products and services related to construction, including formwork systems, scaffolding, temporary bridges, and engineering solutions. The company offers surveying instruments, small machines and implements, compressors, air conditioning apparatus, excavators, lighting equipment, high lift vehicles, and dynamos. It provides forklifts, generator, underwater pump, water treatment machine, safety equipment, and air conditioning and heating machine, among others. Nikken also operates in development, manufacture, sales, and repair of construction equipment. The company operates through its network of stores across Japan. It serves its products to general contractors, civil engineering, and construction companies.

Company Headquarters: Los Angeles, United States Founded: 1961 Workforce: ~ 2,157 Company Working: H&E Equipment Services Inc (H&E Equipment) is an integrated equipment company that provides rentals and sales services. The company rents, sells and provides parts and service support for new and used earthmoving equipment, material handling, forestry, concrete, industrial and heavy equipment. It offers rental equipment such as hi-lift and aerial platform equipment, cranes, light towers, industrial and material lifts, bulldozers and cement mixers generators, among others. H&E Equipment offers services such as fleet maintenance, remanufacturing, structural repair and operator and safety training, among others. The Equipment Rentals segment rents construction and industrial equipment. The New Equipment Sales segment sells new equipment in product categories. The Used Equipment Sales segment offers rental fleet and inventoried equipment that are acquired through trade-ins with its equipment customers and through purchases of high quality used equipment. The company operates through its offices in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida and other states in the US. H&E Equipment is headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the US.

Company Headquarters: Osaka, Japan Founded: 1959 Workforce: ~ 4,463 Company Working: Nishio Rent All Co Ltd (Nishio) is a provider of equipment rental services. It offers rentals and uses sales equipment for civil and road construction, civil work, and large scale projects; plant maintenance and building works; and events and exhibitions. The company designs, fabricates, installs, and operates muddy wastewater treatment equipment and contaminated soil remediation systems. Nishio manufactures, rents, and sells battery motorized vehicles for tunnel and inside premises works. The company offers different forklifts, aerial platforms, work platforms, tower cranes, and maintenance equipment. It also rents equipment for exhibitions and equipment & materials for outdoor events. Furthermore, it also sells various parts and equipment; and provides inspection and onsite repair services for large-scale projects. The company also sells, rents, and installs sports flooring material produced by Connor Sport Court. The company offers its solutions and services through 416 rental operation divisions and 55 franchise operation chain stores in Japan. The company has a presence in Australia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, and Other countries. Nishio is headquartered in Osaka, Osaka, Japan.

Company Headquarters: Hokkaido, Japan Founded: 1964 Workforce: ~ 3,832 Company Working: Kanamoto Co., Ltd. is an equipment rental services company that provides construction equipment, engineering workstations and computer peripherals. The company operates through various business segments such as construction equipment rental business, steel product sales business, computing products, and other businesses. Its construction equipment's includes hydraulic excavators, vehicles for working high off the ground, dump trucks, temporary housing materials and generators. It owns approximately 460 different models and 400,000 construction equipment rental items. The company has over 160 branches throughout Japan and 280 branches globally. Kanamoto also provides rental services of efficient hardware and a broad range of network solutions. The company offers steel products such as H-beams, sheet piles, formed reinforcing bars and single-tube pipes. It provides construction equipment rentals in Vietnam, Algeria, the UAE and the Pacific Rim region. The company operates in Sapporo and Tokyo, Japan.

Company Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Japan Founded: 1967 Workforce: ~ 1,000 Company Working: AKTIO Corporation is one of the leading companies in the construction equipment rental business. The company provides construction equipment rental services for the construction work of ordinary residences and office buildings in Japan as well as for large public works projects. It rents air compressors, temporary furnishings, communication systems, surveying instruments, forklifts & cranes, generator sets, aerial lifts & scaffold, and shielding equipment, among others. The company is focused on offering products such as submersible pumps and generators. It also provides a variety of computerization construction compatible models. The company was formerly known as Shin Denki Co., Ltd. and changed its name to AKTIO Corporation in 1993. It has branch and sales offices in Japan, including Osaka, Tokyo, Sendai, Sapporo, Fukuoka, and Nagoya. The company has 360 sales offices and 114 plant locations across the globe. The company has its operations in Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. AKTIO is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Company Headquarters: London, United Kingdom Founded: 1947 Workforce: ~ 22,807 Company Working: Ashtead Group plc is a U.K.-based provider of equipment rental services. The company rents an entire range of industrial and construction equipment to a diverse customer base for numerous applications. It offers rental industrial equipment to clients such as construction firms, government agencies, homeowners, broadcasters, and railroads. Ashtead Group PLC engages in equipment rental services. It offers a full range of construction and industrial equipment used in lift, power, generate, move, dig, compact, drill, support, scrub, pump, direct, heat, and ventilated operations. It operates through the following segments: Sunbelt, A-Plant, and Corporate Items. The company also offers equipment tracking with the help of mobile tracking systems. Ashtead Group plc primarily operates in the U.S., Canada, and U.K. It operates under brands Sunbelt Rentals in North America, which includes 811 stores in 46 states and Canada, and A-Plant in the U.K., which includes 197 stores across England, Scotland, and Wales. The U.S. continues to be the biggest and fastest growing market as it is potentially five times bigger than the U.K. market. The company operates through three business segments: Sunbelt US, Sunbelt UK, and Sunbelt Canada. As of April 2022, the company had 1,233 rental stores, more than 900,000 rental assets and 800,000 customers.