MacKissic Introduces Merry Tiller Rental Banner
Parker Ford, Pa.-based MacKissic last week announced that rental stores can now display the new Merry Tiller rental banner. ...
Truck Bed Wins Lift and Access Award
Waukesha, Wis.-based Up-N-Atom’s Retriever truck bed won Best Overall/First Place in the 2006 Leadership in Lifting Equipment and Access Platforms Awards. The award honors the year’s best new products in the crane, aerial lift and material-handling fields. ...
Husqvarna Announces Joint Venture in China for Diamond Tools
Stockholm, Sweden-based Husqvarna signed an agreement to establish a joint venture with Hebei Jikai Industrial Co. in China, which will include Jikai’s operation in diamond tools. ...
CIT Reaches Financing Agreement With I-R China
CIT Vendor Finance last week announced a two-year vendor financing agreement with Ingersoll-Rand (China) Investment Co., a subsidiary of Ingersoll-Rand Co. CIT will provide vendor financing for Rand’s Construction Technologies and Compact Vehicle Technologies equipment. The relationship is expected to expand to other major worldwide markets....
Komatsu Opens Georgia Demo Site
Komatsu recently opened its new demo site in Cartersville, Ga., and held a ribbon-cutting ceremony last month as part of its Quarry Days event, which offered construction professionals opportunities to see and test new Komatsu machines. Fifteen new machines were presented, including excavators, graders, dozers, wheel loaders and trucks....
Chicago Material Handling Companies Change Name to Equipment Depot Name
ELGIN, Ill.- Two Chicago-based material handling specialists that merged in July have taken a new name Equipment Depot. Material Handling Services and...
NTS Opens Its Sixth Texas Branch
HOUSTON- National Trench Safety, a trench and traffic safety equipment rental and sales specialist, recently opened a branch in Irving, Texas, a Dallas...
Harbour Group Acquires Pearlman Corp.
Harbour Group recently announced it acquired Pearlman Corp., the parent company of Pearl Abrasive Co. and Keystone Tools....
GenTran and Winco Announce Co-Marketing Agreement
GenTran Corp. and Winco Inc. recently announced a co-marketing agreement that allows the two companies to exponentially expand their distribution through reselling each other’s products. ...
Blastrac Announces SPARC Dates
Blastrac Global, which has experienced much success with its Surface Preparation Academic Resource Center classes for the past two years, announced that it will offer these classes again in 2007 on Jan. 9-11, Feb. 20-22 and March 27-29....
Caterpillar Donates $1.2 Million to Opportunity International
Opportunity International announced last week a philanthropic grant of $1.2 million from Caterpillar Inc. through the Caterpillar Foundation. ...
Virginia Abrasives Expands Sales Management Team
Petersburg, Va.-based Virginia Abrasives, a leading manufacturer and supplier of construction abrasives to the rental equipment market, expanded its company sales management team, and reorganized the sales management effort into four geographic regions: Northeast, Southeast, Midwest and West. ...
Thomas Equipment to Re-Start Manufacturing
Thomas Equipment said efforts are underway to re-establish manufacturing at its plants in New Brunswick, Canada and South Korea....
Grun Co. Contracts With Captive for Financing
Grun Co. has selected Captive Capital Corp. to provide retail financing for its customer base. The new program will be called Grun Financial Services....
Takeuchi U.S. Names Three Rental Managers
Takeuchi U.S. last week named three new rental managers, national rental manager Steve Watts said, to help serve the growing segment of construction equipment rentals....
Terex Names Tom Riordan as President and Chief Operating Officer
Westport, Conn.-based Terex Corp. last week announced that Tom Riordan will join the company in the newly created position of president and chief operating officer effective Jan. 1, 2007. ...
Genie Realigns Service Team to Enhance Customer Response
Redmond, Wash.-based Genie Industries recently restructured its field service team to enhance its North American service program. With the realignment, Genie regionalized its teams in order to service its customers more efficiently and to foster one-on-one customer relationships....
Cat to Top $50 Billion by 2010, Owens Says
Caterpillar chairman and CEO Jim Owens last week told a group of financial analysts and institutional stockholders that the company expects to pass $50 billion in annual sales by 2010, with profit per share growth in the range of 15 to 20 percent annually through that year. ...
Ingersoll Rand May Open Second Plant in Czech Republic
According to CzechInvest, a state-run agency in the Czech Republic, Ingersoll Rand Co. is planning to invest U.S. $31.9 million to build a new plant there. ...
Komatsu America Celebrates 20 Years of Manufacturing in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Komatsu America Corp., a manufacturer and supplier of construction, mining and compact construction equipment, last week celebrated the 20th anniversary of its Chattanooga, Tenn., manufacturing operation. ...
Kubota Approves Use of Biodiesel Fuels in Its Diesel Products
Torrance, Calif.-based Kubota Tractor Corp. last week announced a global Kubota decision to approve the use of B5 biodiesel fuels in specified Kubota diesel-powered products. ...
Ingersoll Rand Celebrates 100th Year on the NYSE
Ingersoll-Rand Co. Limited last week celebrated 100 years of continuous listing and trading of its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange. To commemorate the anniversary, Herbert Henkel, chairman, president and CEO, rang the closing bell. ...
Stone Construction Equipment, Honeoye, N.Y Announces Appointments
Stone Construction Equipment, Honeoye, N.Y., recently named Jeffrey Gambrill vice president, marketing and sales. He will be responsible for the overall management of the marketing and domestic sales divisions of the company....
Manufacturers Predict Slower Growth Rate in ‘07
Construction machinery manufacturers are predicting smaller gains in overall industry business in 2007, following expected double-digit growth in 2006, according to the annual Association of Equipment Manufacturers outlook survey. ...
IPAF’s Whiteman Elected to SIA Board
Signaling increased cooperation between the International Powered Access Federation, it’s North American subsidiary Aerial Work Platform Training Inc., and the Scaffold Industry Association, Tim Whiteman, managing director of IPAF, was recently elected to SIA’s board of directors...
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