Wed September 12, 2007
Volvo Construction Adds New Product Class of Pipelayers
Volvo Construction Equipment has announced the development of a new product class of pipelaying machines targeting, primarily, contractors in the on-shore oil and gas industry. It is anticipated that the new class will be available to the North America market in the second quarter of 2008....
Wed September 12, 2007
Dressta Introduces Two New ’Extra’ Crawler Dozers
Dressta NA has introduced the TD-25M Extra and TD-25M LA (Landfill Application) Extra series crawler dozers. These dozers feature a more powerful Tier III Cummins engine to meet lower emission requirements....
Tue October 09, 2007
PSC Chicago Shows Off New Facility at Open House
Nearly 500 customers, vendors and guests attended Positioning Solutions Company (PSC) Chicago’s open house and grand opening of its new building, located on 297 Commonwealth Drive in Carol Stream, Ill., Sept....
Thu September 20, 2007
The Earle Companies’ Family Values Equal Success
In 1968, Walter Earle borrowed $25,000 to start an asphalt paving company. With the money, he bought a small paver, a roller and a used pickup truck and went to work. At the time, few would have predicted that Earle Asphalt Company would one day become a group of related businesses known as The Earle Companies, which would be one of New Jersey’s leading full-service construction-related firms....
Bond Brungard - Wed September 19, 2007
Lancaster Development Flies Through Route 747 Project
Construction activity abounds on a new east-west connection road being built into Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, N.Y. To the east, a short line of rotating three-axle Volvo end dump trucks were taking turns as a Caterpillar excavator removed more of the hillside to make room for the four-lane connector road, which will be the new entrance into the airport....
Tue August 28, 2007
JESCO Customizes Deere Excavator, Loader for Scrap Yard
JESCO has recently customized a new John Deere 450DLC excavator with shear and a 544J loader with forks and specialized foam filled tires for Fortune Riverside Scrap Yard. JESCO enhanced the 450DLC’s Genesis 990 Maxx shear capabilities with a special hydraulic setup that will more efficiently utilize the machine’s hydraulic system during shear cutting operations....
Matthew Willett - Mon August 27, 2007
Razing the Bars
Veteran demolition contractor Price and Sons is razing the bar. No stranger to high-profile jobs, the team that handled demolition at Centennial Park prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics began work Aug. 3 at the former Buckhead Village, a district in Atlanta known for years for its bars and wild nightlife....
Fri July 27, 2007
Blade Addition Transforms MTL Into Compact Dozer
When landscape, construction or utility contractors encounter soft, muddy underfoot conditions, sloped terrain, sensitive surfaces such as turf, or tight spaces on the job site, turning a multi-terrain loader (MTL) into a mini-dozer may be the solution....
Tue July 03, 2007
Deere Dozers Provide Integrated Grade Control Systems
John Deere Construction & Forestry Company announced the introduction of the Integrated Grade Control (IGC) option on 750J and 850J dozers. These machines now can be shipped from the factory with hardware, software and wiring ready to support the grade control system of the customer’s choice....
Fri August 03, 2007
JESCO Helps Shoreline Grading Meet Tight Deadline
Shoreline Grading currently is excavating the 370-acre (150 ha) Stafford Park mixed-use redevelopment site owned by Walters Group of Barnegat, N.J. The mixed-use redevelopment project is located in Stafford, N.J., and will consist of retail stores, residential housing and recreational areas including a twin ice skating rink....
