Dynapac - Mon June 24, 2019
Jamie Roush Named Dynapac VP of Sales
Dynapac North America LLC, a manufacturer of rollers for asphalt and soil applications, pavers and feeders, has named Jamie Roush vice president of sales of North America. Effective July 1, Roush will lead the sales efforts for the complete Dynapac product portfolio across all sales channels throughout the region....
Allen Engineering - Mon June 17, 2019
Allen Introduces PRO430E Walk-Behind Trowel
Allen, a leader in concrete finishing equipment, announced the debut of the 2019 PRO430E edger walk-behind trowel. This new trowel features a rotating edge ring that is perfect for troweling along the edges of walls or around protruding pipe and conduit, according to the manufacturer....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Mon June 17, 2019
South Carolina's Booming Paving Industry Creates 1,000 New Jobs
A partnership is a great concept, and when it works it's almost magic. That magic is happening right now in the South Carolina asphalt pavement industry. Like many states, South Carolina faces crumbling infrastructure due to years of neglect....
RMS Rentals - Wed June 12, 2019
RMS Rentals Hosts 2019 Paving Expo
The 2019 Paving Expo was once again a success. The annual event hosted April 9, by RMS Rentals in Savage, Minn., was well attended by a number of contractors from the metro area. LeeBoy, Roadtec, Wacker Neuson and Gradall equipment were featured with In-the-Iron product presentations held throughout the day....
CEG - Fri May 03, 2019
Carolina Cat Agrees to Take on Weiler Pavers, NorAm Line
With the turn of the calendar often comes change. For Carolina Cat, the new year brought new product lines and partnerships. Effective Jan. 1, 2019, all Carolina Cat locations in the western half of North Carolina — Asheville, Charlotte Main, Charlotte North, Charlotte South, Deep Gap, Goldsboro, Sylva, Greensboro, Hickory, Monroe and Troy — began carrying both NorAm and the full Weiler lines, including Weiler's commercial paving line, which was created in 2010 with the launch of the P385 paver....
Tractor Times - Thu May 30, 2019
Cartersville, Georgia, Firm Diversifies Into All Aspects of Construction
Chip and Andy Shropshire share a 70-year family history in the construction industry that began when the brothers' grandfather, George Shropshire Sr., started mining marble and ochre in Georgia. With less than a handful of employees, the business that is today known as Bartow Paving Company, provided raw material for local construction projects during the 1950s and 60s....
Southeastern Equipment Company - Wed May 15, 2019
Southeastern Adds Mauldin Paving Line to Indiana Branches
Southeastern Equipment Co. Inc. now offers Mauldin Paving Products at its Fort Wayne, Indianapolis and Evansville locations in Indiana. Mauldin's products cover the complete road building process — grading with motorgraders, tacking with asphalt distributors, paving with pavers, and compaction with rollers....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed May 15, 2019
Michigan Experiments With Paving Longevity
The Michigan Department of Transportation began work this spring on the fourth in a series of experimental pavement projects designed to determine if thicker pavement equals a longer lifespan. The experiments grew out of Public Act 175, which was passed by the state legislature in 2015 and established the Roads Innovation Task Force....
Eric Olson –CEG Correspondent - Wed May 08, 2019
Every Paving Contractor Has Stories to Tell
It might be hard to believe, but veteran paving contractors do have tales of adventure attached to most of the road projects they have worked on. How could they not? Over the past century, paving contractors have created millions of miles of paved roads and surfaces in the United States....
CEG - Wed April 17, 2019
Swanston Hosts Biennial Paving, Compaction Seminar
Around 200 attendees participated in Swanston Equipment's 31st Asphalt Paving and Compaction Seminar on March 13 in Fargo, N.D. The day was jam-packed with more than 10 breakout sessions ranging from intelligent compaction, to paving best practices, to oil distributor calibration, to pavement maintenance, and everything in between....
