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Construction Equipment

9 rules for snowplowing

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in GroundBreaker magazine, distributed by Caterpillar dealers. It has been republished with permission. Many contractors stay active during the cold weather months by taking on snowplowing jobs that are a far cry from their usual construction applications. This winter work poses it own dangers. With that in mind, here […]

January 31, 2013

Construction Equipment

Cat excavator, wheel loader teams both take home the crystal in a first for Equipment World Innovations awards

The weather was cold, but the reception most definitely was not last week in Peoria. For nine years now, Equipment World editors have been selecting what we consider the elite. The product introductions that go above and beyond the typical upgrade and truly move the needle forward in this industry. For these products, we reserve […]

January 30, 2013

Construction Equipment

Inside Caterpillar’s proving ground: $8 million a day in R&D

For the first time in the company’s history, Caterpillar allowed cameras inside its proving grounds for a Bloomberg TV piece on how the company spends its research and development dollars. In the video, we get a good look at the D11, Cat’s largest dozer, being driven remotely. Some very interesting figures are explained as well. […]

January 30, 2013

Construction Equipment

Pre-Bauma 2013: Day 1 Impressions

I’m here in Munich at series of press conferences being referred to as “pre-Bauma” in a windy and cold city. The event is allowing equipment manufacturers to preview what they’ll be display and talking about at the big show in a couple of months. Come April some truly imaginative products, I mean really wonderful […]

January 29, 2013

Roadbuilding

Pre-bauma Cat coverage: hybrid excavator 336EH will be centerpiece

I’m here in Munich at a pre-bauma series of press conferences in a windy and cold city. Caterpillar will put on a really big show at bauma in April. The centerpiece will be the hybrid excavator 336EH. Our readers will know something about the new machine from the work done by Editorial Director Marcia Gruver […]

January 29, 2013

Business

WSJ: Sany shrugs off low sales, says it can be no. 1 equipment manufacturer

After building a $60 million facility in Atlanta, Sany is still waiting for its U.S. investment to pay off. But it still has high hopes, according to an interesting profile of the company done by the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ profile describes the loads of extra space in the company’s office building and warehouse […]

January 29, 2013

Business

Caterpillar reports record sales, revenues, profits for 2012, despite Siwei charge

Despite continued economic uncertainty and a bad fourth quarter due to a $580 million charge taken after uncovering an accounting scheme at a Chinese unit, Caterpillar today reported all-time record sales, revenues and profit per share in 2012. Sales and revenues were up 10 percent from 2011 at $65.9 billion while profit per share was […]

January 28, 2013

Business

Caterpillar uncovers accounting misconduct at Chinese mining unit, ousts several managers

Caterpillar announced Friday that it had uncovered a “deliberate, multi-year, coordinated” accounting scheme at Zhengzhou Siwei Mechanical & Electrical Manufacturing Co., a subsidiary of ERA Mining Machinery Limited which it purchased for $734 million last June. Cat says it was alerted to irregularities in the Chinese unit’s bookkeeping when a review of Siwei’s physical inventory […]

January 19, 2013

Construction Equipment

Caterpillar developing loaders with NASA for lunar mining

They call it earthmoving here. So does that make it moon-moving or lunar-moving if it happens up there? We’ll soon find out. NASA announced that Caterpillar is one of 38 companies awarded seed funds as a part of that agency’s Innovative Partner Program. The goal of the program is to create technologies for future space […]

January 11, 2013

Business

Caterpillar opens two more factories in China

Caterpillar announced this week that it has opened two new factories in China. One of the new facilities is a proving ground and the other is a wheel loader manufacturing facility. It’s an expansion of Cat’s presence in China and the Asia Pacific Proving Ground facility will serve as a hub for validation and product […]

January 11, 2013

Roadbuilding

New Road Products

A hybrid excavator, work gloves, rigid dump truck and rough terrain crane are among the products featured.

January 9, 2013

Roadbuilding

Dave Karnes named director of Roadranger field sales and marketing of Eaton’s North American Truck Business

Galesburg, Mich.-based industrial manufacturer Eaton has named Dave Karnes as director – Roadranger field sales and marketing North American Truck Karnes will be reporting to Tim Sinden, president – North America Truck Operations, effective January 1, 2013. Karnes most recently served as the sales manager on the Navistar and Caterpillar accounts. He will continue to […]

January 3, 2013