Mon July 07, 2003
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....
Wed July 02, 2003
Distributors Rate as Rogers Brothers Top 10 Winners for 2002
Rogers Brothers Corporation, a manufacturer of fixed and detachable gooseneck and drawbar trailers for the construction industry since 1905, has announced the recipients of its “Top 10 Award” for 2002....
Mike Goche - Wed May 28, 2003
Komatsu Fleet Turns Compost Into Gold for NY Firm
Long Island Compost, a recycler of yard waste, puts wheel loaders to heavy use in a large-scale operation. We all have “compost piles” in our backyards but it’s a safe bet that Ed Warner’s is slightly bigger than yours....
Thu February 20, 2003
Jerry Ahern Reflects on Ehrbar Inc.’s First Century
“It’s no accident” when a company celebrates its 100th birthday. This year Edward Ehrbar Inc. achieved the unique distinction of successfully having been in business for more than 100 years....
Pete Sigmund - Mon September 09, 2002
Sept 11: Looking Back and Ahead
The “911” terrorist attacks that took 2,823 lives at the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City one year ago touched us all in some way and changed our lives as well. Remembering it is painful, bringing back, for everyone, many desolate moments, but necessary if the personal growth and lessons learned are to be permanent....
Pete Sigmund - Mon June 17, 2002
After Nine Months, WTC Site Cleanup Concludes
The heartbreaking round-the-clock unprecedented project to remove 1.7-million tons (1.5 million t) of twisted wreckage from Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, where the World Trade Center once stood, is completed....
Wed June 05, 2002
Ingersoll-Rand Tabs Ehrbar as Metro NY Telehandler Dealer
Edward Ehrbar Inc. has been appointed an Ingersoll-Rand telescopic material handler distributor for New York City, Westchester County and all of Long Island.
“The Ingersoll-Rand telescopic material handler line presents a great opportunity for us in sales, rental and product support,” said Patrick Ahern, president of Edward Ehrbar Inc....
Wed March 13, 2002
Ehrbar Announces Product Support Personnel Changes
Edward Ehrbar Inc., based in Pelham, NY, recently announced the following product support department personnel changes. Don J. Spaziani has been named corporate service manager. Spaziani brings a background of extensive experience in service management garnered primarily over a 12-year career with a large heavy-equipment distributorship in New Jersey....
Pete Sigmund - Wed September 26, 2001
Crews Assist Rescuers in Massive WTC Search
When I first saw the towers of the World Trade Center collapse in smoke and flame, I was somehow emotionally detached, as if I were covering a story rather than feeling the tragedy of people dying. Then the phone rang....
Craig Mongeau - Mon August 20, 2001
Mt. Hope Makes Paving History at Newark Airport
Paving history was made recently at New Jersey’s Newark Airport. On Friday morning at 7 a.m., June 15, with temperatures inching toward the high 80s already, Mt. Hope Rock Products, a division of Tilcon, was charged with the duty of paving a 4,800 ft....
