New dealerships and substantial investments

Family business Smet Rental saw the light of day in the early 2000s. By providing strong service, and brisk investment in their fleet – even in non-evident times! – the company has built a solid market position for itself.

Meanwhile, Smet Rental is enjoying international reputation. The company, with over 150 various machines in its fleet, ranks among the top European companies. Steven Teirlinck, operational manager: “This year only, we invested about 4 million euros in new machinery. Few examples are the HAMMEL VB 950DK, TANA Shark 440 DT eco, Roco RYDER 1000 and EVOQUIP COLT 600. Also, we secured three dealerships: Precimeca, Wima & Roco. Exclusive to the Benelux.”

Smet Rental has already owned a Precimeca mobile tire shredder for about three years. But because the mobile shredder was actually never to be found in the Benelux countries, but rather “on the move” full time to France and Sweden, among others, the French company and Smet Rental decided to join forces through a dealership. In order to bring more machines into rotation.

Steven Teirlinck: “Precimeca is one of the European leaders in the area of tire shredders, with very high-quality granulate as final product. They don’t pull the tires apart, they cut them. There’ s a worldwide movement to recycle tires properly, not just use them for energy. We may even speak of a real rush on “black gold. This is mainly due to a new European legislation stating that only a certain percentage of tires can be used for energy purposes. With Precimeca, we are now positioning ourselves for this piece of the recycling business as well.”

Wima also concluded a dealership for the Benelux with Smet Rental. De Duitse onderneming is een fabrikant van waterafscheiders. Steven Teirlinck: “We noticed that a growing amount of customers are having trouble reaching the new COPRO inspection and/or VLAREMA standards. After all, with a wind shifter you can only separate plastic, debris, … up to a certain level. Water can be used much more adequately to separate components in some cases. The end result is better and we think more and more of our customers will use this. In order to better comply with increasingly stringent inspections and standards.”