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Roland Machinery Raises Bar With Crane Product Support →
Roland Machinery, a full-service equipment distributor with more than 40 years in the business, has launched an extensive crane product support program conveniently located to handle repair needs in the Chicago metro region and beyond. Based in the company’s new 14.000-sq.-ft. branch in Portage, IN, the Roland program offers minor repairs to major rebuilds. The program includes services such as repairing both hydraulic and friction cranes, and performing OSHA-mandated annual crane inspections by Crane Institute of America-certified technicians. Click for more...
Capitol Visitors’ Center to Be D.C. Magnet →
An underground project is steadily progressing in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the Capitol Visitors’ Center (CVC) is to preserve and maximize public access to the Capitol and greatly enhance the experience for the millions who walk its historic corridors and see its monumental spaces every year, according to the project’s Web site. “Today’s Congress understands that the people who come to their Capitol need better opportunities to learn about and more fully understand their Constitution, their Congress, and the history of their Capitol,” the Web site, in part, says. Nearly 3 million people visited the Capitol in 2000, with as many as 18,000 people each day during peak season. Click for more...
Empire Crane Grows By Leaps, Bounds →
Empire Crane Company, a soon to be two-year-old, full servicing crane distributor, sells rents and repairs cranes of all sizes and makes. While the company name may be new, its staff is experienced and organized with many established well-organized individuals. Brothers, Luke and Paul Lonergan founded Empire Crane as a full-service crane sales, rental and service business serving New York and New England. Click for more...
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. Click for more...
Metro Steel’s Favco Luffing Boom Crane Stars in Big Apple →
Recently, a Favco M760D-II diesel-powered luffing boom crane was purchased by Metro Steel for use on projects in the New York City area. The crane was used at the construction site of the Atlantic Center, a 25-story combined commercial and residential project in Brooklyn. A second Favco M760D-II crane rented from New York Crane also was being used on the job. Steve Isaacson, of the Metro Steel division of Interstate Iron Works, said he liked the Favco crane because of its high capacity — 141,000 lbs. Click for more...
Contractors Complete Key Phase of 17th Street Bridge →
Contractors involved in building Atlanta’s new 17th Street Bridge reached a major milestone recently when they set the last of the structure’s 48 steel beams in place. “The beam setting operations have been as smooth as we could have imagined,” said Mickey McGee, metro district construction engineer of the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). “We owe a big ’thank you’ to our contractors, to Mother Nature, and to Atlanta’s drivers, who heard the construction messages and avoided the area during work times.” The contractors working on the bridge include crews from C.W. Click for more...
Six Bridges Scheduled to Span Natchez Trace in $6.8M Project →
Cranes of all different sizes are helping complete a $6.8- million project in the Clinton, MS-area that will mean six new bridges along the historic Natchez Trace Parkway. The project, awarded to T.L. Wallace Construction of Columbia, MS, includes three different designs for the bridges. Two are conventional precast, prestressed concrete girder bridges over the Bogue Chitto Stream and KC Southern Railroad. Click for more...
Manitowoc Closes NE National Crane Facility, Moves It to Shady Grove, PA →
Manitowoc announced May 13 that it will close its National Crane boom-truck manufacturing facility in Waverly, NE, and will move production to the company’s facility in Shady Grove, PA. Both facilities were acquired when Manitowoc purchased Grove Worldwide last year. The closing is expected to take place by the end of 2003. According to Manitowoc, the transfer of production will improve long-term utilization and productivity given the advanced systems already in place at Shady Grove. Click for more...
Tracey Road Takes on Schwarze and Marini Milling Lines →
Tracey Road Equipment, headquartered in Syracuse, NY, recently brought on two new equipment lines — Marini milling machines and Schwarze Industries sweepers. The Marini MP 1000 and MP 1300 track-mounted milling machines feature wide-section tracks that reduce pressure to the ground, limiting the risk of sinking when passing over water ducts or drains. “The Marini line will offer our central and upstate New York customers and municipalities with a great product that will help them with a wide range of milling projects,” said Marty West, sales manager of Tracey Road. West also expects the Schwarze mechanical M6000 power sweeper and the A4000 regenerative air-powered sweeper to be a good fit for Tracey’s customers. “Both of these models will satisfy municipalities with their street sweeping and contractors for cleanup on their projects,” he said, adding that both the M6000 and A4000 will be available to all contractors and municipalities in St. Click for more...
Terex Partnership Gets Nod to Supply Trucks to Israeli Defenses →
Terex Corporation announced in April that its joint venture, American Truck Company (ATC), has been selected as the preferred bidder by the Ministry of Defense of Israel (IMOD) to supply the Israel Defense Forces with 315 medium tactical trucks and associated support. The anticipated order value is in excess of $50 million. The announcement follows the conclusion of a lengthy competition between ATC and other U.S. Click for more...
Link-Belt Names Its Top Five Crane Distributors for 2002 →
John Claflin, Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company vice president of sales and marketing, announced the top five Link-Belt Construction Equipment Company crane distributors, and the “Rookie of the Year” distributor at the AED annual meeting in San Diego, CA. The top five are:• Four Seasons Equipment Inc., Houston, TX, has been a Link-Belt distributor for two years. It has branch offices in San Antonio and Dallas, and serves the central and east Texas area. Click for more...
Matt Beller Joins Stowers as Its CCE Sales Manager →
Stowers Rental & Supply, The Cat Rental Store, has announced that Matt Beller has joined the Knoxville-based company as sales manager for compact construction equipment. Beller will be responsible for the sales of Caterpillar’s line of skid steer loaders, mini-excavators, and compact wheel loaders as well the Challenger line of agricultural tractors. He has more than 17 years experience in the construction equipment industry. Click for more...
Kenworth C500 Enables Crane Operator to Conquer FL’s Sand →
Chris Grower was stuck - literally and figuratively. His truck outfitted with a 167-ft. (51 m) National crane was frequently getting mired in the sand and mud that are common in northeast Florida. The owner operator of Grower Crane Service Inc. was spending too much of his time digging out of the loose soil conditions when erecting outdoor signs and planting utility poles. “I had this crane mounted on a 6 by 6, which, as I found out too often, wasn’t satisfactory to handle the crane,” Grower said. Click for more...
Lady Lake’s South Eastern Timber Buzzes to Meet Demand for Oak Crane Mats →
For a company that has been around for more than 30 years, South Eastern Timber is seeing some of its best business in the past two. The company, based out of Lady Lake, FL, with a sales office in Coral Springs, has managed to keeps its oak crane mat production flow up in spite of a weak economy over the past few years. Diane Murray, vice president of the five employee outfit, credits the steady flow on a newer, better carriage, installed about a year ago, and a recently introduced Web site. Click for more...
Greenville’s Liberty Bridge Allows Visitors to Freely View Waterfalls →
Flowing through historic downtown Greenville, SC, is the scenic Reedy River. Sitting on this river, with its waterfalls and lush gardens, is Falls Park. Over the past 40 years, the Carolina Foothills Garden Club of Greenville and the city of Greenville have worked with individuals, corporations, and state and federal agencies to further develop the park. In 1990, landscape architect Andrea Mains, of Washington D.C., began to draw up plans to transform the area into a regional attraction, with botanical gardens and a curved suspension pedestrian bridge. Click for more...
Grove Gains Higher Profile in Guay Inc.’s Extensive Crane Fleet Throughout Canada →
Guay Inc. started out in Quebec City, Canada, in 1964 by its current owner, Jean-Marc Baronet. The company has expanded to seven locations serving Quebec, portions of Ontario, the Atlantic Provinces and the northern United States. More than half of the Guay fleet of 320 cranes that range from 8 to 880 tons (7.2 to 792 t), are Grove. Recent additions include four TMS745E truck cranes, three RT760E rough-terrain cranes and a GMK5120B all-terrain crane. Click for more...
Terex Reaches for Sky With RT1000 →
Terex Cranes has announced a new rough-terrain crane with a maximum lift capacity of 100 tons (90 t). Designated the RT 1000, the new model has a 126-ft. (38.4 m) four-section boom with single-lever control for either three-section heavy lift or four-section long boom configuration. Two double-acting hoist cylinders provide boom elevation of minus 2 to 78 degrees for easier reeving changes and close radius operation. Click for more...
Link-Belt’s HTT-8660 Crane Displays Mobility in NY Bridge Replacement →
Because of its lift, reach, mobility and duty-cycle times, Luck Brothers’ new Link-Belt HTT-8660 crane is a perfect fit for its first application. The crane is being used to tear down and replace a deteriorating bridge that carries heavy traffic over U.S. Route 3 over the Saranac River, in New York State. Luck Brothers, based in Plattsburgh, NY, is replacing the old bridge, which is located 7 mi. Click for more...
Link-Belt’s HTT-8660 Crane Displays →
Because of its lift, reach, mobility and duty-cycle times, Luck Brothers’ new Link-Belt HTT-8660 crane is a perfect fit for its first application. The crane is being used to tear down and replace a deteriorating bridge that carries heavy traffic over U.S. Route 3 over the Saranac River, in New York State. Luck Brothers, based in Plattsburgh, NY, is replacing the old bridge, which is located 7 mi. Click for more...
Crane & Machinery Event Highlights Terex Products →
More than 100 customers and guests headed out to Crane & Machinery’s Open House on Friday, Nov. 8 and Saturday, Nov. 9. The event was held to introduce the new Terex/Demag line of cranes and three new crane sizes in the Terex lifting lines. Crane & Machinery has been representing Terex and its acquired lines for 25 years. The new products, according to Linda Hamman, area manager, “enhance what we can provide our customers in the construction equipment industry. “We have changed our offerings to focus on Terex and all of their lines,” Hamman added. The equipment dealer, based out of Bridgeview, IL, had a variety of features highlighting the open house including equipment displays, give-aways, seminars and a pig roast on Saturday. Some of the machinery on display included an American HC 275, a 275-ton (249 t) crawler crane; a Terex RT 665, a 65-ton (59 t) rough-terrain crane that weighs under the 90,000-lb. Click for more...
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