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Doosan Bobcat opens Global Collaboration Center in downtown Minneapolis
The new center’s location gives the company access to talent to help complement the company’s current innovation teams and much more. More on Equipment World.
July 15, 2019
Dealers
Manitou reports 19% growth in 2018, cautious confidence in 2019
Manitou Group recently reported that its adjusted revenues grew 19 percent in 2018 in comparison to 2017, and 22 percent for Q4. More on Equipment World.
February 6, 2019
Dealers
United Rentals buys BakerCorp, enters European market for first time
BakerCorp's range of rental fluid solutions goes into a variety of heavy markets, including oil and gas, pipeline, refinery and construction. More here!
July 2, 2018
Roadbuilding
Systra buys IBT in effort to reach top-10 of bridge engineering firms
Global mass transit engineering and design firm Systra has acquired San Diego-based International Bridge Technologies in its quest to become a top-10 international bridge specialists, the company says. Before the acquisition, Systra was ranked 14th in the world in bridge engineering. Buying IBT will give Systra bridge design centers in the United States, Canada and […]
September 8, 2017
Roadbuilding
France opens world’s first solar highway in Normandy as part of larger 4-year deployment
France has opened the world’s first “solar highway,” a half-mile-long “Wattway” covered with 30,000 square feet of resin-coated solar panels that is connected to the local power grid, according to a report from Phys.org The country’s Environment Minister Segolene Royal was present at the highway’s opening. The solar road will provide power to the street lights of Tourouvre in Normandy. […]
December 28, 2016
Roadbuilding
1040
In bridges, there’s American old and then there’s old. You want old? The Pont Vieux (literally “old bridge”) had been in use for 657 years when the oldest surviving roadway bridge in America, the 73-foot Frankford Avenue Bridge in Pennsylvania, was constructed in 1697. The 500-foot long Pont Vieux in Albi, in the Midi Pyrenees […]
May 13, 2013
Roadbuilding
France blasts U.S. CEO: We do too work and you’re nuts.
Oh yeah, it’s on. France has fired back at what their social media are calling “le French bashing” by a salty American business leader. A cabinet minister and a factory union leader lead le charge, the former calling US’s Titan Tire CEO “ignorant” and the latter saying he should be institutionalized. Our blunt-speaking CEO in […]
February 21, 2013
Roadbuilding
French workers don’t work: U.S. CEO to French Minister
Scare bleu! Maurice Taylor, CEO of US tire maker Titan, writing to France’s Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg, after the minister asked Titan to buy a Goodyear tire factory in Northern France that is about to shut down: “I have visited that factory a couple of times. The French workforce gets paid high wages, but works only […]
February 20, 2013
Home
ParkerStore opens 2,000th location
Parker Hannifin’s ParkerStore will open its 2,000th store, located near Lyon, France, in October. Parker Hannifin spent 15 years opening its first 1,000 locations, but the number of stores has doubled in less than four years. ParkerStore will celebrate its 2,000th opening at its new location in Chassieu, France, a suburb of Lyon. The store, […]
August 21, 2012
Technology
Volvo CE recognized in Intermat 2012 Innovation Awards
Judges recognized Volvo Construction Equipment as a winner of the Intermat 2012 Innovation Awards in Paris on January 13 for the company’s On Board Weighing System, designed for its F-Series haulers. The judges of the Intermat 2012 Innovation Awards, which aimed to reward the most innovative equipment and techniques in the industry, chose from more […]
January 18, 2012
Safety
IPAF shares safety campaign
The International Powered Access Federation will take its “Spread the load” safety campaign to the Intermat construction show from April 16-21 in Paris, France, where IPAF will be located in the Outdoor Area E2, Stand B064. IPAF’s “Spread the load” campaign calls for the proper assessment of ground conditions when using mobile elevating work platforms […]
January 18, 2012
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