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Okada to distribute and service Rotar demolition attachments
Okada America and Rotar International BV have teamed up to expand and grow their demolition attachment businesses. Details on their plans on Equipment World.
February 26, 2019
Roadbuilding
Steel-infused asphalt heals itself when heated
Christopher Schlangen, a PhD student at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, has developed a steel-infused self-healing asphalt that can be heated to get rid of potholes, cracks and loose stones, Futurism reports. The technology adds steel wool to bitumin, the binding agent that asphalt uses to hold the stones together. If asphalt that […]
May 24, 2017
Roadbuilding
Route 66 will soon become a testing ground for solar sidewalks and roads
Route 66 will soon become the testing ground for an experiment that developers hope may change our roadways in the future. Curbed reports that hexagonal glass panels manufactured by Solar Roadways will be laid over a sidewalk near a rest stop in Conway, Missouri, in early December. According to Missouri Department of Transportation staff, this will […]
September 26, 2016
Roadbuilding
Crews ‘insert’ tunnel beneath Dutch highway in just one weekend
Dutch road construction crews are taking the word efficient to entirely new levels. In May crews with Rijkswaterstaat, the infrastructure management agency in the Netherlands, installed a tunnel beneath highway A12 near the city of Ede. The tunnel, which weighs 3,600 tons and measures 230 feet long was installed below the highway in just one […]
July 8, 2016
Roadbuilding
Vermeer names third-generation family member Jason Andringa incoming president, CEO
Vermeer Corporation has named Jason Andringa incoming president and CEO, taking over the position from his mother, Mary Vermeer Andringa, and continuing the Vermeer family’s leadership of the company into the third generation. The transition will be fully effective on Nov. 1, 2015. On Nov. 1 this year, Jason will assume the role of president […]
August 27, 2014
Business
CNH board to hold final vote on Fiat Industrial merger July 23rd
CNH announced today that its Board of Directors will hold the final vote concerning the pending merger with Fiat Industrial on July 23. Fiat Industrial, which owns 87 percent of CNH’s outstanding shares has committed to vote in favor of the merger. The news comes about three and half months after CNH’s Board of Directors […]
June 4, 2013
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Dutchman finishes 20-year build of Noah’s Ark replica
A lot of builders read our website. But we imagine very few have the amount of time on their hands as Dutchman Johan Huibers. Huibers spent the past 20 years building a complete replica of Noah’s Ark. He only recently finished the project and is now able to let people tour the massive boat which […]
December 13, 2012
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