Kinequip Offers Wide Assortment of Products

Being a leading ambulance manufacturer comes with pressure. American Emergency Vehicles turns out more than 1,000 trucks a year, which hit the roads with expectations of performance, reliability and smooth functioning in the quest to save lives.

That means those vehicles’ parts and systems have to operate with dependable, quality performance as well. To ensure they do, AEV turns to Kinequip, Inc., for an array of electric, electronic and other technological components.

“Kinequip is a critical supplier for us of electrical and electronic assemblies for all vital areas of our vehicles,” says AEV President/CEO Mark Van Arnam. “We’ve dealt with them for many years and found them to be highly dependable and one of our top vendors. We buy components and parts from hundreds of vendors, and their customer service and ability to meet their commitments are outstanding.”

Kinequip’s wide assortment of products includes compressors, sensors, controllers, cylinders, valves, fittings, gauges, clamps, filters and beyond. In the realm of specialty vehicles, it encompasses lighting, cameras, monitors and other electric/electronic needs. It’s all broad enough to be a good fit for AEV, which requires a range of top-quality raw materials and components for its product. Of particular value is that Kinequip proactively brings the latest innovations from various manufacturers to AEV’s table.

“They bring us things that are state-of-the-art and make sense from a sourceability and dependability standpoint,” says Van Arnam. “They’ve done that in several areas, from our electrical operating platforms to cameras and high-tech kinds of things. They’ve continued to introduce new technologies to us: ‘This is what’s out there, and we can source and package it for you. Let’s put it in a few vehicles and get it out there for beta-testing and see how it works.’ They’re very close to their markets, and understand what our needs are for ours.

“Our electrical system operating platform is an area where we worked with them on a new platform and a change in philosophy, and it’s been very effective for us. We’ve been doing that now for a couple of years, and they’re the guys who did it for us.”

Visit www.kinequip.com.