Medical and safety technology giant bases new rental arm in Aberdeen

Dräger Group, the medical and safety technology giant, has launched a UK equipment rental service, to be based out of Aberdeen.
The group manufactures its products, ranging from fire safety equipment and portable gas detectors to thermal imaging cameras and rescue apparatus, in the UK and Germany.The group manufactures its products, ranging from fire safety equipment and portable gas detectors to thermal imaging cameras and rescue apparatus, in the UK and Germany.
The group manufactures its products, ranging from fire safety equipment and portable gas detectors to thermal imaging cameras and rescue apparatus, in the UK and Germany.

The £2 million, 2,000-item rental fleet will be operated from the Granite City and will offer 24-hour delivery across the full range of Dräger products.

The UK service will be supported by the company’s global rental headquarters, which is based in Krefeld, Germany, which holds a 125,000-item fleet of rental equipment worth some £30m.

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Dräger manufactures its products, ranging from fire safety equipment and portable gas detectors to thermal imaging cameras and rescue apparatus, in the UK and Germany.

Matthew Bedford, managing director safety and service, Dräger Safety UK, said: “Dräger has been driving innovation in safety technology for over 130 years and it is essential that we continue to listen and respond to the changing ways that our customers want to do business.

“We hope that by offering greater flexibility to customers through the launch of Dräger Hire we can support UK businesses at a challenging time, helping them to keep workers safe, and allowing them to do business in whichever way suits them best.”

The launch came as the group outlined the key findings of a consultation involving UK businesses regarding the ways in which workplace safety is being affected by the pandemic.

Almost half (46 per cent) of those firms surveyed reported that they had been forced to consider, or had already enacted, prioritising business-critical issues such as worker safety over non-essential spend because of current economic challenges.

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