Coates ramps up its green credentials

Coates, Australia’s leading equipment hire and solutions provider, has launched its ‘greener choice’ range of products.

Some of the products include electric and hybrid boom and scissor lifts; solar powered, hybrid and portable LED lighting; electric forklifts and low-emission forklifts; a large range of battery-powered hand tools; and blended biodiesel for other plant and equipment.

“The Coates Greener Choices range offers customers tangible opportunities to reduce emissions, improve efficiencies and commit to best practice environmental sustainability standards,” said Murray Vitlich, the CEO of Coates.

“As Australia’s leading equipment and solutions provider, we are focused on providing more sustainable equipment and solutions that support our customers sustainability goals and help guide our suppliers in making greener choices in product design and manufacture.

“We are committed to further developing our Greener Choice range of equipment and solutions and recognise that the criteria for inclusion in this range will continue to evolve as the industry advances and new technologies emerge.”

As well as its suite of green products already available, in late 2022 Coats is launching the lightweight Quadshore 150 propping system, developed in conjunction with Melbourne’s Monash University and claimed to be the more environmentally sustainable than conventional systems.

“To have real impact on the world, we need to not only change the way we think and act, but also enable and inspire others to act as well,” continued Vitlich. “There are challenges ahead, but by working together with our customers and supply chain we can turn shared vision into meaningful action.”