Rent aerial work platforms and forklifts in Reims

Luibl Rental hires out aerial work platforms, forklifts and telehandlers in Reims to companies from the champagne trade, agro-industry, logistics and construction – and brings every machine on its own low-loaders right onto your premises. The city on the Vesle has around 180,000 inhabitants and is the largest centre in the Marne departement. Between chalk cellars, grain silos along the motorway and Gothic stone facades, very different height and handling tasks arise here. You describe the task to us, and we recommend the type that suits the access, ground conditions and required height.

The economy in the Reims area is broadly based, and each sector places its own demands on rental equipment:

• Champagne houses and wineries: Many large champagne houses are based in Reims; their cellars and chalk caves (crayeres) are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Coteaux, Maisons et Caves de Champagne”. Around harvest, bottling and shipping, forklifts are needed for pallet handling, and compact electric forklifts and scissor lifts in warehouses and dispatch halls.

• Agricultural and food industry: Champagne is one of France's major arable farming regions, with cereals and sugar beet. North of Reims lies the Bazancourt-Pomacle biorefinery site. Silos, processing plants and warehouses need telehandlers for material handling and articulated boom lifts for maintenance on high plant components.

• Logistics at the A4/A26 motorway junction: In Reims, the A4 Paris–Strasbourg meets the A26 from Calais towards Troyes, and the A34 leads into the Ardennes. Distribution centres and freight forwarders along these routes use forklifts in shift operation. Via the LGV Est high-speed line and the Champagne-Ardenne TGV station in Bezannes, Reims is also closely connected to Paris, and office and commercial space has developed around the station.

• Heritage conservation and old town: Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Basilica of Saint-Remi and the Palais du Tau are UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Work on historic facades and in narrow city-centre streets requires manoeuvrable aerial work platforms with lateral outreach.

• Universities, hospitals and housing: The Universite de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, public buildings and new residential quarters ensure ongoing new-build and renovation projects.

Smooth hall floors in the dispatch hall, cobblestones in the old town or gravel at the silo: in Reims, the choice of platform depends on this.

• Scissor lifts (diesel and electric) raise your fitters to 8 to 18 m – for example to replace lights in a winery's bottling hall or to install cable trays under the roof. The electric versions emit no exhaust at the job site and are therefore also used in enclosed halls.

• Articulated boom lifts articulate over cornices, gargoyles and canopies and reach more than 35 m. This makes them popular on natural stone facades in the centre and on pipe bridges in processing plants.

• Telescopic boom lifts extend far and straight. They take roofers to high hall roofs in the business parks or technicians to the tops of grain silos in the surrounding area.

• Mast lifts fit through cellar doors and between rows of racking where larger machines cannot get in.

Our platforms are built by manufacturers including Haulotte and Genie. In France, every aerial work platform undergoes a vérification générale périodique (VGP) every six months in accordance with the arrêté du 1er mars 2004, carried out by a competent person and entered in the registre de sécurité. We hand over the report of the most recent inspection together with the machine; maintenance follows the manufacturer's schedule.

Wherever pallets, barrels or big bags are moved in Reims, two groups of equipment are at work:

• Forklifts: Electric models for bottle stores and bottling halls, diesel forklifts for loading ramps along the A4, rough-terrain forklifts for winery yards and depots. In chalk cellars with low ceilings we pay attention to the overall height of the mast, and in bottling halls with sensitive floors to the right tyres.

• Telehandlers: The Manitou MT 730 H, for example, lifts 3,000 kg to 6.90 m and can also drive over soaked farm tracks – practical when seed, fertiliser or building materials need to go onto trailers or into interim storage. Machines from Manitou, Merlo and Magni are also available.

You can cover seasonal peaks such as the grape harvest or the grain harvest with rental machines instead of keeping your own machines all year round. If you need a platform and a forklift at the same time, we combine both in one quote.

For Reims you can draw on machines from Manitou, Merlo, Magni, Haulotte and Genie – different heights, load classes and drives from a single fleet. The cabs of many telehandlers and platforms can be heated and air-conditioned, which helps during frost in Champagne as much as in high summer on a hall roof.

In France, your company decides who operates the machine: the employer issues the operator with an autorisation de conduite (Code du travail, Art. R4323-56) after the operator has been appropriately trained (Art. R4323-55). In practice, a CACES® usually serves as proof of this training – R486 for platforms, R489 for forklifts – but it does not replace the authorisation. On delivery, our driver explains the controls, emergency lowering and checks of the respective machine to your staff.

We handle delivery in Reims with our own low-loader fleet straight to the job site – whether the yard of a champagne house, a building plot in Bezannes or a warehouse in the Marne countryside. We clarify with you in advance the approach route, clearance heights and unloading area, as well as whether a permit is required for unloading on a public road in the city centre. A dedicated contact person supports the job until collection. If the first job is followed by a second at another location – first the winery in the city, then perhaps a warehouse near Bazancourt – our drivers relocate the machine and you do not need to arrange your own transport. For projects at several locations we also serve Paris, Lille and Strasbourg.

Which type suits your job? The overview Hire a lifting platform – all platform types at a glance explains scissor, articulated boom, telescopic boom, mast, tracked and truck-mounted platforms and shows what the rental price depends on.

Tell us the location, height and period of your project in Reims – from this we calculate a quote including machine, transport and instruction. This applies to a single day on an old-town facade just as much as to a job lasting the entire harvest season. Contact us via the form or by phone. How we work in other regions of the country is shown on the France country overview page.