Postcards from Las Vegas
Postcards from Las Vegas
Advantage Marketing Hosts’s Fourth ConExpo Press Event
Advantage Marketing Communications hosted its fourth ConExpo press event prior to the start of ConExpo last month, and more than 100 editors of the construction industry's leading publications converged at the Hofbrauhaus in Las Vegas....
Leica Geosystems Successfully Launches New Products at ConExpo
Heerbrugg, Switzerland-based Leica Geosystems last month introduced a wide range of construction solutions at ConExpo in Las Vegas....
ConExpo Shatters Attendance Records
ConExpo-Con/Agg 2008 set records for attendance, exhibit space and number of exhibiting companies according to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers. More than 144,600 attendees from more than 130 countries attended the convention, covering more than 2.28 million net square feet of exhibits, with 2,182 exhibitors. About 124,000 attended the 2005 show....
JobMaster Rental Wins MMD Equipment Compact Excavator Sweepstakes
JobMaster Rental, Harrodsburg Ky., was awarded the Komatsu PC18MR-2 compact excavator grand prize from MMD Equipment’s Sweepstakes at the 2008 Rental Show....
Bomag Celebrates 50 Years With a Dozen New Compaction Products
In celebration of 50 years in the compaction industry, Bomag introduced a dozen new products at ConExpo in Las Vegas earlier this month. The company was started in a timber yard garage in Boppard, Germany. Noticing that the single-drum rollers of the era created a bow wave in the soil, company founders Karl Heinz Schwamborn and Benno Kaltenegger developed a double vibration combined with all-drum drive. ...
AEM Board Members Smell Opportunity in Nation’s Infrastructure Needs
Crumbling bridges, overcrowded roadways, aging water and wastewater systems diminish our quality of life. The national focus has been on the need to invest public funds into these projects — both as a solution to our infrastructure woes and also as a stimulus to boost the sagging economy....
Idaho Couple Wins Harley-Davidson At The Rental Show
Doosan Infracore Portable Power sponsored a Harley-Davidson giveaway during the The Rental Show in Las Vegas in February. ...
AEM Announces Inaugural Construction Challenge Winners
An Oklahoma team has won the first-ever Construction Challenge held at the recently concluded ConExpo-Con/Agg 2008 trade show in Las Vegas. Teams from Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio and Texas also took home top honors in the teen competition, which was initiated by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers....
Snorkel Evolves Into a Full-line Manufacturer, Announces New Jobs at ConExpo
Elwood, Kan.-based Snorkel International demonstrated its evolution into a major full-line manufacturer of aerial work platforms at ConExpo 2008, unveiling eight new US-built models, including electric scissor, mast and articulated boomlifts aimed at the construction and industrial maintenance sectors, as well as the unique SpeedLevel rough-terrain vertical lifts....
