A TL100 compact track loader came off the assembly line at the Yanmar’s Grand Rapids, Minnesota, plant recently, marking the company's 50,000th completed machine there.
Yanmar Compact Equipment highlighted the milestone machine as a defining moment in its North American growth strategy and commemorated the plant’s 50,000th and 50,001st machines with custom decals.
Yanmar gained its Grand Rapids facility through the company’s 2019 acquisition of ASV (a brand that Yanmar has decided to phase out of the U.S. market) and has subsequently invested another $32 million into the plant. Another investment of $30 million is planned over the next five years to expand the plant’s engineering capability, improve its production capacity and support future product development.
The TL100 hit the U.S. market in 2024 as Yanmar’s first-ever compact track loader after its debut was announced at ConExpo 2023.
BOMAG Americas Adds New Southern Dealer
Stone Equipment Co. has become the latest equipment dealer to join BOMAG’s American network, bringing the company’s asphalt, soil, landfill and compaction equipment to Alabama and the Florida Panhandle.
Stone Equipment offers heavy equipment, service and parts to customers in the construction, roadbuilding, environmental, aggregate and demolition market segments. In addition to BOMAG, Stone Equipment also sells and services equipment from Case, Astec, KOBELCO, Bell America.
The dealership will provide BOMAG support from its four locations in Alabama in Montgomery, Birmingham, Huntsville and Mobile.
Merlo America Appoints New Parts Manager
Merlo America
Mike McBroom has joined Merlo America as its new parts manager and will work with the company’s North American dealers and customers.
McBroom's experience includes 12 years with Volvo, serving at different times as parts technical support for its construction business and as a harmonized tariff compliance analyst for its trucking division. Over the last few years, McBroom has also worked in parts management for other companies like Ag-Pro, LS Tractor, Blanchard Machinery and Reynolds Warren Equipment.
A main goal for McBroom’s new position is expanding the range of parts at Merlo’s primary parts distribution warehouse in South Carolina.
