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Terex Buys More Tatra Shares →

Terex Corporation announced Sept. 3 that it has acquired an additional 51 percent of the outstanding common shares of the Czech Republic company Tatra a.s., an internationally recognized manufacturer of on/off-road heavy-duty vehicles for commercial and military applications with 2002 revenues of approximately $138 million. The acquisition brings Terex’s total ownership in Tatra to approximately 71 percent Terex purchased the additional shares from SDC International Inc. “We view Tatra as an integral part of our ongoing military strategy,” commented Ronald M. Click for more...

East to West, FL’s I-4 Spreads Out →

Contractors are upgrading Interstate 4 in central Florida, section-by-section, reshaping the future of the heavily-traveled highway. The 20 or so projects planned, completed or in progress along its 140-mi. (224 km) length carry a total price tag of approximately $1 billion in construction costs. Funding comes partly from an economic stimulus program pushed through the legislature by Gov. Jeb Bush. The general task given an array of contractors is to widen Interstate 4 to six lanes in some places, to eight lanes in other sections and to prepare some stretches of the corridor for an ultimate width of 10 lanes. To that end, bridges are being built or widened to accommodate traffic moving up and over the interstate. Click for more...

Skanska Motors Through VA’s Pinners Point Project →

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has selected Tidewater Skanska Inc. to build the Pinners Point Interchange, VDOT’s largest single construction contract, in Portsmouth, VA. The road and bridge project will provide an interstate-type connection from Portsmouth’s Western Freeway into the Portsmouth Marine Terminal and the Midtown Tunnel, which connects Norfolk and Portsmouth. Click for more...

David Epps Joins ALL Crane Rental Sales Team in Atlanta →

David Epps recently joined the sales staff of ALL Crane Rental of Georgia in Austell. Epps began his career in the equipment industry in the early 1990s at Epps Equipment Sales, Conyers, GA, with his father, Eddy. Later he took a temporary hiatus from the industry, trying his hand as a professional golfer. After a few years, he returned to sales, selling light- and medium-duty commercial trucks for a metro Atlanta dealer. Click for more...

J & J Equipment Headquarters Opens in Brewerton, NY →

George Lonergan, president of J & J Equipment, has announced the opening of the company’s new headquarters located at 9055 Brewerton Rd., Route 11, Brewerton, NY, north of Syracuse. For several years, J & J has been the distributor of Tymco products in upstate New York where it has experienced a tremendous growth. It was this growth that necessitated the construction of the company’s new headquarters. Click for more...

$200M Bridge to Span Mighty Mississippi →

Residents of both Mississippi and Arkansas are witnessing a new structure slowly stretching over the Mississippi River. The new Greenville Bridge, which has an estimated total cost of more than $200 million, will connect Greenville, MS, with Lake Village, AR. “This is the largest single bridge project [in Mississippi]. There have been projects that were as large monetarily, but they included several large bridges as well as road work,” said Mississippi Bridge Engineer Mitchell Carr. Click for more...

Roland Machinery Raises Bar With Crane Product Support →

Roland Machinery, a full-service equipment distributor with more than 40 years in the business, has launched an extensive crane product support program conveniently located to handle repair needs in the Chicago metro region and beyond. Based in the company’s new 14.000-sq.-ft. branch in Portage, IN, the Roland program offers minor repairs to major rebuilds. The program includes services such as repairing both hydraulic and friction cranes, and performing OSHA-mandated annual crane inspections by Crane Institute of America-certified technicians. Click for more...

Capitol Visitors’ Center to Be D.C. Magnet →

An underground project is steadily progressing in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the Capitol Visitors’ Center (CVC) is to preserve and maximize public access to the Capitol and greatly enhance the experience for the millions who walk its historic corridors and see its monumental spaces every year, according to the project’s Web site. “Today’s Congress understands that the people who come to their Capitol need better opportunities to learn about and more fully understand their Constitution, their Congress, and the history of their Capitol,” the Web site, in part, says. Nearly 3 million people visited the Capitol in 2000, with as many as 18,000 people each day during peak season. Click for more...

Empire Crane Grows By Leaps, Bounds →

Empire Crane Company, a soon to be two-year-old, full servicing crane distributor, sells rents and repairs cranes of all sizes and makes. While the company name may be new, its staff is experienced and organized with many established well-organized individuals. Brothers, Luke and Paul Lonergan founded Empire Crane as a full-service crane sales, rental and service business serving New York and New England. Click for more...

Construction Skills 2000 Introduces NYC High Schoolers to Industry Trades at Jacob Javits Convention →

Approximately 700 high school students got a close-up look at opportunities in the urban construction field recently at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. The occasion was the Construction Skills 2000 career day sponsored by the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York and the Building Trades Employers’ Association, and supported by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the New York City School Construction Authority, the New York City Department of Education, the New York Building Congress and the Consortium for Worker Education. Click for more...

Metro Steel’s Favco Luffing Boom Crane Stars in Big Apple →

Recently, a Favco M760D-II diesel-powered luffing boom crane was purchased by Metro Steel for use on projects in the New York City area. The crane was used at the construction site of the Atlantic Center, a 25-story combined commercial and residential project in Brooklyn. A second Favco M760D-II crane rented from New York Crane also was being used on the job. Steve Isaacson, of the Metro Steel division of Interstate Iron Works, said he liked the Favco crane because of its high capacity — 141,000 lbs. Click for more...

Contractors Complete Key Phase of 17th Street Bridge →

Contractors involved in building Atlanta’s new 17th Street Bridge reached a major milestone recently when they set the last of the structure’s 48 steel beams in place. “The beam setting operations have been as smooth as we could have imagined,” said Mickey McGee, metro district construction engineer of the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). “We owe a big ’thank you’ to our contractors, to Mother Nature, and to Atlanta’s drivers, who heard the construction messages and avoided the area during work times.” The contractors working on the bridge include crews from C.W. Click for more...

Six Bridges Scheduled to Span Natchez Trace in $6.8M Project →

Cranes of all different sizes are helping complete a $6.8- million project in the Clinton, MS-area that will mean six new bridges along the historic Natchez Trace Parkway. The project, awarded to T.L. Wallace Construction of Columbia, MS, includes three different designs for the bridges. Two are conventional precast, prestressed concrete girder bridges over the Bogue Chitto Stream and KC Southern Railroad. Click for more...

Manitowoc Closes NE National Crane Facility, Moves It to Shady Grove, PA →

Manitowoc announced May 13 that it will close its National Crane boom-truck manufacturing facility in Waverly, NE, and will move production to the company’s facility in Shady Grove, PA. Both facilities were acquired when Manitowoc purchased Grove Worldwide last year. The closing is expected to take place by the end of 2003. According to Manitowoc, the transfer of production will improve long-term utilization and productivity given the advanced systems already in place at Shady Grove. Click for more...

Tracey Road Takes on Schwarze and Marini Milling Lines →

Tracey Road Equipment, headquartered in Syracuse, NY, recently brought on two new equipment lines — Marini milling machines and Schwarze Industries sweepers. The Marini MP 1000 and MP 1300 track-mounted milling machines feature wide-section tracks that reduce pressure to the ground, limiting the risk of sinking when passing over water ducts or drains. “The Marini line will offer our central and upstate New York customers and municipalities with a great product that will help them with a wide range of milling projects,” said Marty West, sales manager of Tracey Road. West also expects the Schwarze mechanical M6000 power sweeper and the A4000 regenerative air-powered sweeper to be a good fit for Tracey’s customers. “Both of these models will satisfy municipalities with their street sweeping and contractors for cleanup on their projects,” he said, adding that both the M6000 and A4000 will be available to all contractors and municipalities in St. Click for more...

Terex Partnership Gets Nod to Supply Trucks to Israeli Defenses →

Terex Corporation announced in April that its joint venture, American Truck Company (ATC), has been selected as the preferred bidder by the Ministry of Defense of Israel (IMOD) to supply the Israel Defense Forces with 315 medium tactical trucks and associated support. The anticipated order value is in excess of $50 million. The announcement follows the conclusion of a lengthy competition between ATC and other U.S. Click for more...

Link-Belt Names Its Top Five Crane Distributors for 2002 →

John Claflin, Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company vice president of sales and marketing, announced the top five Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company crane distributors, and the “Rookie of the Year” distributor at the AED annual meeting in San Diego, CA. The top five are:• Four Seasons Equipment Inc., Houston, TX, has been a Link-Belt distributor for two years. It has branch offices in San Antonio and Dallas, and serves the central and east Texas area. Click for more...

Matt Beller Joins Stowers as Its CCE Sales Manager →

Stowers Rental & Supply, The Cat Rental Store, has announced that Matt Beller has joined the Knoxville-based company as sales manager for compact construction equipment. Beller will be responsible for the sales of Caterpillar’s line of skid steer loaders, mini-excavators, and compact wheel loaders as well the Challenger line of agricultural tractors. He has more than 17 years experience in the construction equipment industry. Click for more...

Kenworth C500 Enables Crane Operator to Conquer FL’s Sand →

Chris Grower was stuck - literally and figuratively. His truck outfitted with a 167-ft. (51 m) National crane was frequently getting mired in the sand and mud that are common in northeast Florida. The owner operator of Grower Crane Service Inc. was spending too much of his time digging out of the loose soil conditions when erecting outdoor signs and planting utility poles. “I had this crane mounted on a 6 by 6, which, as I found out too often, wasn’t satisfactory to handle the crane,” Grower said. Click for more...

Lady Lake’s South Eastern Timber Buzzes to Meet Demand for Oak Crane Mats →

For a company that has been around for more than 30 years, South Eastern Timber is seeing some of its best business in the past two. The company, based out of Lady Lake, FL, with a sales office in Coral Springs, has managed to keeps its oak crane mat production flow up in spite of a weak economy over the past few years. Diane Murray, vice president of the five employee outfit, credits the steady flow on a newer, better carriage, installed about a year ago, and a recently introduced Web site. Click for more...

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