Case Donates Engine to Vocational School
Case Construction Equipment and Fiat Powertrain Technologies recently donated a new Case diesel engine to the Murray-Calloway County Area Technology Center when the vocational school decided to add a diesel course to its engine curriculum. Case dealer McKeel Equipment, Paducah, Ky., engineered the donation....
Manitowoc Cranes Cuts 159 Jobs
Manitowoc, Wis.-based Manitowoc Cranes last week said it is laying off 159 employees at its Manitowoc and Port Washington, Wis., facilities because of lower demand for its products....
Treumann Receives Stone 2009 President’s Award
Livingstone Treumann, Latin America district sales manager for Stone Construction Equipment, has received The President’s Award — the company’s highest sales honor. Lynne Woodworth, president and CEO, presented the award to Treumann at the company’s recent national sales meeting....
Point-of-Rental Announces Northeast Regional Training Seminar
Point-of-Rental Systems last week said it will host a Northeast Regional Training Seminar at the Sheraton Mahwah Hotel in Mahwah, N.J., April 28-29. On Tuesday, April 28, the seminar will focus on equipment rental, while Wednesday’s seminar on April 29, is designed for party and event rental....
Ron Johnson Joins Solar Technology as VP of Sales and Marketing
Solar Technology Inc. hired former MMD Equipment president Ron Johnson as vice president of sales and marketing. Johnson, a 30-year veteran of the construction equipment and highway safety industries, most recently served in the same position with Wanco Inc., and also has worked for Allmand Brothers in a similar sales management capacity....
Kioti Tractor Annual Dealer Meeting Achieves Record Attendance
Kioti Tractor hosted its annual dealer meeting in Raleigh, N.C., Feb. 22-24. The company’s management worked to establish a program to provide dealers with sales training and product information to help them navigate through the tough economic period many are facing....
ITT Water & Wastewater Names Williamson President
ITT Corp. last week named John Williamson president of its Water & Wastewater business, headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. A provider of pumps and systems to move and treat water and wastewater, the business employs 5,600 and does business in more than 130 countries with leading brands such as Flygt, Sanitaire, Leopold and WEDECO. Williamson replaces Per-Inge Birgersson, who is retiring....
Atlas Copco Appoints Kuhn New Compressor Technique President
Stockholm, Sweden-based Atlas Copco last week appointed Stephan Kuhn as president of the Compressor Technique business area, effective May 1. He succeeds Ronnie Leten, who will take over as president and CEO of the group....
Gehl Lays Off 48 in Yankton
West Bend, Wis.-based Gehl Co., last week announced the layoffs of 48 additional employees at its Yankton, S.D., plant, which produces telescopic handlers, wheel loaders and asphalt pavers. The company laid off 27 employees there in December....
Briggs & Stratton Lays Off 114 in Missouri
Engine and lawn-and-garden equipment manufacturer Briggs & Stratton last week announced plans to lay off 114 workers in its Poplar Bluff, Mo., plant, which produces small engines for outdoor power equipment. The company cited weak demand for lawn and garden equipment as the reason....
Cummins Turbo Technologies Consolidates Production in Charleston
Cummins Turbo Technologies, a subsidiary of Cummins Inc., last week announced that it will consolidate its turbocharger operations in Charleston, S.C., into a single facility over the next 18 months. Currently, Cummins Turbo Technologies produces turbochargers for a range of diesel engines at two facilities in the Charleston area, which together employ about 530 people....
Deere Announces Ottumwa Layoffs
Deere & Company last week announced that 40 employees of the John Deere Ottumwa Works will be placed on indefinite layoff later this month due to reduced market conditions for the factory's products. The layoff affects production workers with the least seniority....
Business Week Lists Manitowoc One of 50 Top Performers
Business Week magazine recently listed crane manufacturer Manitowoc No. 37 on its annual ranking of best-performing companies, despite the company’s expectations that crane sales will fall 20 percent in 2009. The magazine cited the Manitowoc, Wis.-based company’s doubling of its revenue between 2005 and 2008 to $4.5 billion....
Wynne Systems Names European General Manager
Irvine, Calif.-based Wynne Systems, an international provider of enterprise software for the equipment and rental industries, last week announced that Kris Brusselmans has joined the company effective March 30, as general manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) operations....
Atlas Copco Acquires Indian Drill Bit Manufacturers Focus and Prisma
Atlas Copco (India) Ltd has exercised an option to buy the remaining 75 percent of shares in Focus Rocbit Pvt Ltd and Prisma Roctools Pvt Ltd. The acquisitions strengthen the group’s position in the market for drill bits and hammers....
Blastrac Forms Training and Certification Unit
Blastrac N.A. is forming Diamatic Management Services, a new business to coordinate and handle the management, specification writing and training for large surface-preparation projects, the company said last week....
Kohler Engines Names New President
Kohler Co., last week appointed Thomas Cromwell president of the Kohler Engine business. He will lead and manage the Kohler Engines business, including its operations in Kohler, Wis., Hattiesburg, Miss., Mexico and China. He will be responsible for driving business improvement initiatives that optimize capacity, cost, quality and customer service. Cromwell reports to Dick Fotsch, president-Kohler Global Power Group....
Terex Agrees to Term Sheet Acquisitions of Fantuzzi Industries and Noell Port Equipment Businesses
Terex Corp. last week announced that it has agreed on a term sheet to acquire the port equipment businesses of Fantuzzi Industries and Noell Crane for net consideration of approximately €175 million (about U.S. $231.5 million). The Fantuzzi and Noell businesses are global leaders in the design, manufacture, and service of port equipment. Term sheets have also been agreed with the existing financial creditors to the Fantuzzi group for long-term financing on favorable terms to provide substantially all of the funds necessary to complete the transaction. The term sheets are non-binding and it is the intention of the parties to work to enter into agreements and complete the transaction within the next few weeks....
Volvo Awards Hybrid Team
Six engineers have been named the winners of Volvo’s 2009 Technology Award for their development of the world’s first commercially viable hybrid solution for heavy vehicles. The award was presented by Leif Johansson, president and CEO of Volvo, last week at the annual general meeting of AB Volvo....
Link-Belt’s Martz Named Sumitomo Vice President
Chuck Martz, chairman, CEO and president of Link-Belt Construction Equipment Co. was last week named vice president of parent company Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd., becoming the first U.S.-based executive from a subsidiary to earn such a role in Sumitomo....
Terex Chairman DeFeo Declines Bonus
Terex Corp. chairman Ron DeFeo recently declined to accept a $1.17 million bonus he was eligible for and reduced his salary by 10 percent as the company has had to trim its workforce and reduce costs in the face of the global economic downturn....
Skyjack Names New VR and Zoom Boom Telehandler Dealers
Skyjack last week announced the addition of two new dealers to its expanding network of VR telehandler dealers — On Site Equipment and McAllister Equipment Co....
Hitachi Power Tools Announces 10-Year Lithium Ion Tool Warranty
Hitachi Power Tools last week announced its new 10-Year lithium ion tool warranty. The company now offers an exclusive 10-year lithium ion tool warranty to the original purchaser on HXP Lithium Ion cordless tools....
Mantis Announces Winners of Adopt-a-School Garden Program
Mantis and the National Gardening Association last week announced the winners of the 2009 Mantis Adopt-a-School Garden Program. Funded by a grant from Southampton, Pa.-based Mantis, 10 schools in the Greater Philadelphia Tri-State area will receive technical assistance, horticultural and garden education consultation, a $600 ASG Kit and a Mantis tiller/cultivator or Mantis ComposT-Twin composter to help lay the foundation for their garden program....
Bobcat Employees Help Fight North Dakota Floods
Bobcat Co. employees went to work with manpower and equipment to try to prevent the potentially disastrous flooding of the Fargo-Moorhead, N.D., area. People in Fargo are working around the clock to fill more than 2 million sandbags and build extensive flood walls to protect the communities in anticipation of potentially record Red River flooding. Nearby communities of Bismarck and Gwinner, where Bobcat factories are located, have already been hit by overland flooding, washed-out roads and near-blizzard conditions....
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