Rent Merlo
Equipment in Canada

Amilcare Merlo founded his machinery company in the Susa Valley near Turin in 1964, and over the following six decades the family enterprise has grown into one of Italy's most respected construction and agricultural equipment manufacturers - producing a telehandler range that industry specialists consistently rank among the most sophisticated machines in the category. Like Faresin and other northern Italian equipment brands, Merlo benefits from a deep regional engineering culture that prizes precision, durability, and manufacturing quality over the low-cost production shortcuts that have undermined the reputation of less committed competitors.

The P-series telescopic handlers represent Merlo's construction market offering - machines available in configurations spanning from compact urban models to high-capacity, high-reach units used in pre-engineered construction and infrastructure projects. What distinguishes Merlo P-series machines in experienced operators' assessments is the quality of their hydraulic control: the smoothness of load positioning, the precision with which the boom responds to operator input, and the stability under load that comes from Merlo's active stabilization systems. On Canadian high-rise and pre-cast construction projects where telehandler operators are positioning loads within tight tolerances repeatedly over full working shifts, this control quality reduces load disturbance incidents and supports the productivity levels that project schedules demand.

The ROTO rotating telehandler series is Merlo's contribution to the growing market for 360-degree material handling machines that blur the line between telehandler and crane. ROTO models feature outrigger stabilization systems, precise slewing control, and load chart management that enable contractors to specify them for picks that previously required crane mobilizations. Canadian industrial construction projects - compressor station builds for natural gas infrastructure, electrical substation equipment installations, and the module-heavy construction methodology favoured in Alberta's oilsands - are discovering that ROTO machines offer a cost-effective middle ground between conventional telehandler capability and full crane mobilization for the mid-weight, precision placement work that these projects generate.

Merlo's cold-climate credentials include substantial sales volumes in Scandinavia and alpine European markets where winter operating conditions are genuinely comparable to Canadian Prairie and northern environments. Regional telehandler specialists across Canada distribute and support Merlo equipment, providing trained service technicians and genuine Italian-manufactured parts for a machine line that Canadian contractors are choosing with increasing confidence as Merlo's North American reputation grows through demonstrated field performance.