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Business

Caterpillar to close South Carolina plant that employs 280 people

In what the Charleston, South Carolina Post and Courier calls “a sizable blow” to the region’s manufacturing industry, Caterpillar has announced that it will close a plant there that employs 280 people. After what Caterpillar told the paper was “an extensive strategic review,” the company decided to shut down its transmission remanufacturing plant as it […]

May 1, 2013

Roadbuilding

Caterpillar 336E H hydraulic hybrid excavator wins Edison Award

Caterpillar’s 336E H hydraulic hybrid excavator won a 2013 Silver Edison innovation award in the Energy/Transportation category at the 26th annual Edison Awards, our sister site, Equipment World, reported. Caterpillar received the award last week in Chicago, Illinois. This is Caterpillar’s first nomination and first year winning an Edison Award. According to the awards’ website, […]

April 30, 2013

Business

Caterpillar 336E H hydraulic hybrid excavator nets company its first Edison Award

Fresh on its proper introduction to the public at the massive Bauma construction equipment show in Munich, Caterpillar’s 336E H hydraulic hybrid excavator has won a 2013 Silver Edison innovation award. Like an electrical hybrid system, the 336E H captures and reuses energy. But rather than reuse electricity, the excavator uses hydraulic accumulators built into […]

April 30, 2013

Construction Equipment

Caterpillar VPs offer views on Tier 4, Tier 5 and Chinese competitors in roundtable

At the Bauma trade show last week in Munich, Germany, I sat down with a small group of editors to talk with several Caterpillar vice presidents. Here’s a look at some of the give and take: Because the machines cannot run on the higher sulfur fuel in lower-regulated countries, can you say anything about how […]

April 25, 2013

Business

Caterpillar first-quarter profits fall 45% due to inventory cuts, low mining demand

A steep decline in demand for mining equipment coupled with reductions in inventory are to blame for Caterpillar’s slumping first-quarter financial results, the company reports. The company reported a profit of $880 million in the first quarter of 2013, a 45-percent tumble from the $1.586 billion the company pulled in the first quarter of 2012. Sales […]

April 23, 2013

Home

Caterpillar CEO talks Bauma, telematics and customers

From Munich and the Bauma show, Caterpillar recently posted a video interview to YouTube with its Chairman and CEO Doug Oberhelman. In the video Oberhelman says he really enjoys the opportunities to learn that a show like Bauma affords him. “This is kind of where it all comes together because you have customers here that […]

April 19, 2013

Construction Equipment

What it’s like to be at Bauma, “The world’s largest construction equipment show”

The Bauma construction equipment show that happens every three years in Munich is a sight you have to see to believe. The show spreads thousands upon thousands of pieces of equipment over 16 halls and more than 6.1 million square feet. This week, we’ve provided constant coverage of the show from Munich and we invite you to […]

April 19, 2013

Business

Caterpillar CEO talks hybrid tech, rental business at Bauma

Noting that the 2010 Icelandic volcano prevented him from attending the last Bauma show, Doug Oberhelman, Caterpillar president and CEO, used that circumstance as an example of how much technology has advanced in just three years during remarks made today at the international trade show. “Then, we were scrambling to get a satellite feed. Now, […]

April 16, 2013

Construction Equipment

Ritchie Bros. lists 5 things to look for at Bauma

Sixteen exhibition halls. More than 6.1 million square feet of indoor, outdoor and demonstration exhibit area. Though Bauma, the world’s largest construction equipment show, offers quite a bit of equipment to see, it offers much more ground to cover. And all this week editors Marcia Gruver Doyle and Tom Jackson will be pounding the ground in […]

April 15, 2013

Construction Equipment

Live chat archive: Caterpillar answers questions on new 336E H hybrid excavator

April 12, 2013

Construction Equipment

TONIGHT: Join our live chat with Caterpillar on the 336E H hybrid excavator

Tonight, at 6 p.m. Central, we’ll be chatting up a storm from our Twitter bunker here at Equipment World headquarters as we try to answer all of your questions about Caterpillar’s new 336E H hybrid excavator. We’ve even launched a new page of the website where you can submit questions and view the chat as it happens. […]

April 11, 2013

Construction Equipment

Ring Power Rook is a Caterpillar 287C armored for crime fighting

Take a Caterpillar 287C multi-terrain loader, hit it with some olive drab paint and arm it with a phalanx of urban assault attachments and what do you have? One bad-ass crime bustin’ vehicle, that’s what. Terminator be advised. And this is no joke, or one-off done for laughs. Ring Power, the Cat dealer for north […]

April 9, 2013