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Business

Caterpillar to close 3 Illinois component plants, move work to Michigan

Caterpillar has announced that it will close three of its plants in Illinois in order to consolidate the work at a single plant in Michigan. The plants are all facilities of Anchor Coupling, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cat that manufacture or distribute hydraulic hose assemblies used in heavy equipment from Cat and other manufacturers, according […]

June 9, 2014

Construction Equipment

Caterpillar hires former Transportation Sec. Ray LaHood

Caterpillar has hired former Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to serve as a consultant, the company announced Thursday. Caterpillar says LaHood will “provide advice on policy related matters.” “[LaHood] will assist Caterpillar in developing corporate strategies focused on identifying solutions to specific policy and communications challenges Caterpillar faces in the increasingly complex policy and business environment,” […]

June 6, 2014

Business

Kubota president, chairman Masumoto found dead in Tokyo

Chairman and president of Kubota Corporation, Yasuo Masumoto, has died while staying in Tokyo. The 67-year-old failed to leave his room at the hotel and was found collapsed in the bathroom, according to a report from Bloomberg. The cause of death is undetermined, and Vice President Masatoshi Kimata will take over as acting president, the […]

June 4, 2014

Construction Equipment

Caterpillar CIO Randy Krotowski resigns

Caterpillar Chief Information Officer Randy Krotowski has resigned from the company. Krotowski’s departure was effective June 1. The Caterpillar announcement did not go into the exact specifics of his resignation saying only that he left “to pursue other opportunities.” In addition to serving as CIO, Krotowski was also the company’s vice president of Global Information […]

June 4, 2014

Maintenance

How 3 diesel-electric and hybrid construction machines are waging war on wasted energy

For the past decade the drive to reduce diesel exhaust emissions has dominated the headlines. But with the last EPA mandated deadline of 2014 for Tier 4 Final engines here, the war is over and a new front has opened in the drive for cleaner, greener equipment. The new technology trend for heavy equipment is […]

June 1, 2014

Dealers

Ditch Witch, Volvo, Talbert Manufacturing name top dealers in this week’s Dealer News Roundup

Welcome to the Dealer News Roundup, your one-stop shop for all the moves going on inside the heavy equipment distributor industry. We post a new edition just about every week with news on hires, promotions, new locations and expansions. Check back for a new edition every week! Ditch Witch honors top 10 dealerships for superior […]

May 30, 2014

Construction Equipment

Caterpillar launches the 990K: a more powerful wheel loader with more payload and a redesigned cab (PHOTOS)

[imagebrowser id=84] Caterpillar has unveiled its latest wheel loader, replacing the 990H with the new, more powerful and more comfortable 990K. Cat increased the payload of the loader from 16.5 tons to 17.5 tons and says it pairs nicely with the 773, 775 and 777 construction and mining trucks. (In order to load the 777, […]

May 29, 2014

Construction Equipment

Thieves steal same skid steer twice in Omaha, resilience lands them in jail

It was British writer William Edward Hickson who said, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.” Recently a couple of equipment thieves took the advice to heart. According to a report from Fox 42 in Omaha, Nebraska, two men, Robert Black and Shane Benscoter, are accused of stealing a John Deere 323D skid […]

May 28, 2014

Construction Equipment

Caterpillar excavator tiptoes through China shop, stacks glass, somehow doesn’t break anything

While Caterpillar hit viral video status with a video focusing on a massive game of Jenga, its latest Built For It Trials video centers on one of the most impressive displays of operator skill we’ve seen. In it, Ryan Neal, a senior demonstrator instructor at Cat, hops into a 301.7 CR mini excavator and drives […]

May 27, 2014

Construction Equipment

As most-patented truck in Ford history, 2015 F-150 is “teaching the world” how to build a high-tech pickup

Given that the 2015 Ford F-150 is the first pickup with an aluminum body, it’s not exactly surprising that the truck is the most patented in the automaker’s 111-year history. What’s impressive is the sheer number of new Ford patents and patent applications the truck is responsible for: more than 100. And because of that, […]

May 27, 2014

Construction Equipment

Inside Diggerland USA: First look at the rides of the nation’s first construction theme park in action (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

No. 4 Story in 2014 « No. 5 No. 3 »     As the owners of Sambe Construction, the Girlya family has seen many different types of projects over the 30-year history of the company. Since emigrating to the U.S. from the Soviet Union in the late 1970s, father Samuel Girlya along with wife […]

May 23, 2014

Dealers

Caterpillar pushes dealers missing out on billions in sales each year to increase use of telematics data

Contractors aren’t the only ones not using telematics. Dealers of the largest heavy equipment manufacturer in the world are also being urged to up their use of the valuable data the technology creates. Caterpillar says its dealers are failing to capture somewhere in the range of $9 billion and $18 billion in revenue each year, […]

May 21, 2014