project overview

COVERAGE: PARTIAL DEMO

KITS USED: 2 X MINI KITS OF INDUROPRO

LOCATION & APPLICATOR: ST. ROSE, LA
THE INDUROPRO TEAM

TYPE OF EQUIPMENT: JLG 800S DIESEL BOOM LIFT

CONDITION: HEAVY USE. ~ 3 YEARS OLD

project results: protection where it counts

  • 01

    FADED VS. INDUROPRO SEALED.

    The rear panel split shows it clearly — one side coated, one side not, same surface, same light. InduroPro's ceramicized epoxy gloss is visible in real time against four years of UV-faded orange.

  • 02

    INDUROPRO IS CLEAR. NOT INVISIBLE.

    A clear coating on a surface in good condition is hard to see. On UV-faded rental equipment, the restored gloss and color depth make it impossible to miss.

  • 03

    CONTROL SECTIONS. REAL RESULTS.

    United Rentals St. Rose left sections uncoated deliberately — so the comparison between treated and untreated surface on the same machine could speak for itself.

  • 04

    TWO MINI KITS. REAR PANEL DEMO.

    Two mini kits of InduroPro provided controlled coverage across the rear body panel test sections of this full-size JLG 800S diesel boom lift.

FOR EVERYONE WHO SAYS THEY CAN'T SEE ANYTHING ON OUR BRUSHES.

THE FADED PAINT DOES THE WORK YOUR SKEPTICISM WON'T.

InduroPro is a clear ceramicized epoxy coating. It does not roll on like paint. It does not look like much in the tray. And on a surface that is already in decent condition, the difference between coated and uncoated can be subtle enough to dismiss if you are looking for a reason to. That is where the skeptics live — in the gap between what they expect a coating to look like and what a clear protective formula actually is. The JLG 800S at United Rentals St. Rose, LA closed that gap in about thirty seconds of application footage.

Four years of rental cycling had faded the orange paint on the rear body panels enough that the moment InduroPro made contact, the restored gloss and color depth were visible mid-stroke. Not after a full application. Not in an edited before and after with optimized lighting. Mid-stroke, on camera, in real time. The United Rentals team left sections of the rear panel uncoated as a deliberate control — so the comparison between treated and untreated surface on the same machine could do the talking. It does. The brush is loaded. The coating is working. The split panel proves it.

THE SPLIT THAT ANSWERS THE SKEPTICS.

COATED ON THE LEFT. UNTREATED ON THE RIGHT. SAME MACHINE. SAME LIGHT.

The mid-application still from the JLG 800S rear panel is the clearest single-image proof of what InduroPro does on UV-faded rental equipment. The coated section shows restored gloss and deeper color. The uncoated section shows exactly what four years of outdoor rental cycling looks like without protection — chalked, flat, and fading further with every day it stays that way. There is no editing trick in that image. No lighting adjustment. Just InduroPro on one half of a panel and nothing on the other, captured mid-application on a thirty-second reel at a United Rentals lot in St. Rose, LA.

For anyone still skeptical about whether a clear coating is actually doing anything — this is the machine to look at. The surface was faded enough to show the difference. The control sections were left bare deliberately. And the result is exactly what InduroPro produces every time it hits a surface that has been left unprotected long enough for the UV damage to show. The coating is clear. The results are not.

RENTAL BOOM LIFTS AND UV FADING. THE SILENT FLEET PROBLEM.

EVERY MACHINE ON YOUR LOT IS FADING. MOST OF THEM ARE DOING IT QUIETLY.

UV fading on rental boom lifts does not announce itself. It happens gradually, panel by panel, season by season, until the machine that left the factory a sharp, saturated orange starts looking like a sun-bleached version of itself. By the time it is noticeable enough to act on, the surface has already been open to moisture, edge rust, and the kind of substrate damage that makes cosmetic recovery harder and more expensive than it needed to be. The JLG 800S at United Rentals St. Rose is a snapshot of what that process looks like mid-progression — faded enough to show the InduroPro difference clearly, but not so far gone that protection cannot still make a meaningful impact.

That is the window InduroPro is designed to work in. Not just on machines that have been driven to the edge of restoration, and not only on brand new equipment being protected from day one. The most practical application of InduroPro on a rental fleet is exactly this — machines that are a few years into their working life, showing the early signs of UV and surface wear, sealed before the damage compounds into something more serious. A thirty-second reel on a St. Rose lot made the case better than any spec sheet could. The split panel is still on the machine. One side protected. One side not. Every rental cycle from here will show the difference a little more clearly.