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Construction Equipment

Redesign makes Stoltz Manufacturing’s 27-ton SS-2518 site spreader 40% stronger

Boasting design improvements to its floater trailer the company says makes it 40 percent stronger, Stoltz Manufacturing has launched the new 27-ton SS-2518 pull-type soil stabilization spreader. The new 80,000-pound trailer design features a fully welded structural tubular steel frame and a walking beam suspension with 710/50-30.5 floatation tires. Each trailer is equipped with a self-contained hydraulic system […]

August 10, 2015

Business

POLL: Which Presidential candidate would best run a construction company?

Gridlock prevails in our federal government. The highway bill has been stuck in limbo for five years. There are shutdowns, filibusters, walkouts, unseen procedural trickeration. Spending and deficits are through the roof. If this were a construction company no work would ever get done. What we need is a president who can get things done, […]

August 7, 2015

Roadbuilding

PennDOT worker injured after being run over by a dump truck in work zone

A Pennsylvania Department of Transportation worker was hospitalized Tuesday after a dump truck ran over his legs in a construction zone in Hanover. The PennDOT employee was in a work zone on State Route 29 at around 2 p.m. when the dump truck ran him over and pinned him to the ground, according to the Wilkes Barre Times-Leader.  The […]

August 7, 2015

Workforce

Two managers charged with negligent homicide for death of worker in NYC construction collapse

Two managers are facing homicide charges in connection with a deadly soil collapse in New York City earlier this year. The New York Daily News reports Wilmer Cuevas, 49, and Alfonso Prestia, 55, were indicted earlier this week for “allegedly refusing to shut down” a construction site where a man was killed April 6. At the […]

August 6, 2015

Safety

Worker killed in 30-foot fall on South Carolina jobsite

A worker was killed last week during the construction of a residential and retail development in South Carolina. According to a report from Greenville Online, 44-year-old Ascension Molina Medina was working from a height of about 30 feet at the Main + Stone development in Greenville when he fell around 11 a.m. July 31. The site […]

August 6, 2015

Construction Equipment

Ford unveils the 2016 F-150 Limited; raises bar on luxe trucks with loads of tech (PHOTOS)

That truck manufacturers have been outfitting high-end trim models of their pickups with interiors you’d normally find in a Mercedes is nothing new. But in the last couple of years, the competition for Most Plush Truck Cab has certainly heated up (even to the point that earlier this year Mercedes announced plans to launch a […]

August 5, 2015

Technology

PHOTOS: Company unveils 3D printed homes that can be built in under 3 hours

What if it were possible to reduce the process of buying and building a home to less than a day? In China, one company has quite the head start on such a disruption. According to a report from the Daily Mail, Zhouda Group, based in Xi’an, Central China, has developed new technology to 3D print […]

August 5, 2015

Business

CNH Industrial sales fall 10%, profit plummets in 2Q

CNH’s continued struggles with the global agricultural slowdown continued in the second quarter, compounded by decreased construction equipment sales. The company, manufacturer of the Case Construction and New Holland equipment brands, reported sales and revenues of $7 billion, down 10 percent from the same period in 2014. Profit plummeted 236 percent to $122 million. For the […]

August 4, 2015

Business

Construction spending inches up 0.1% in June

With no change to nonresidential spending, total construction spending in the U.S. saw its smallest gain in five months, according to preliminary estimates from the Commerce Department. The primary fuel for the industry’s huge spending growth in the last year or so has been nonresidential which was flat this month at $687 billion. Residential, meanwhile, […]

August 4, 2015

Workforce

Construction worker and boy team up to rescue man from pit bull attack in Minnesota

A construction worker and a young boy jumped to action and played a part in saving a man’s life in Minnesota recently when the man was attacked by a pit bull. According to a report from KARE TV, 9-year-old Marshall Schmitz saw a pit bull attacking a man walking his dog in St. Louis Park […]

August 3, 2015

Workforce

Guy who drove into construction site and hit a worker says he was only trying to help

A disagreement between a construction crew and an enraged driver in Arkansas resulted in one worker clinging to the front of the man’s hood for dear life. According to a report from Arkansas Online, police were called to a construction jobsite in Springdale after a driver who refused to drive around the jobsite hit one […]

July 31, 2015

Dealers

Liebherr celebrates distribution evolution, Manitou launches new website and more in the latest Dealer and Manufacturing Roundup

Applied Machinery expands with new office location Applied Machinery Sales is expanding with a new office location in Rock Hill, South Carolina. This new location has nearly 48,000 square feet of space and will support their growing dealer network. The new facility will house the company’s parts and attachments inventory, handle daily orders and provide […]

July 31, 2015