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Sales flat, earnings down for Astec in 3Q
Continuing to navigate softer market conditions, Astec reported flat sales for the third quarter. The owner of Carlson Paving and Roadtec reported revenues dropping 0.3 percent from the three months ending September 30 compared to the same period last year. Net sales were $255.8 million compared to $256.6 million. The bulk of the revenue drop […]
November 1, 2019
Construction Equipment
Elliott celebrates 70 years of making truck aerial devices
As post-World War II America was building its electrical grid and interstate system, Richard Elliott of Omaha, Nebraska, introduced his truck-mounted telescoping aerial work platform and crane. Starting in 1948, he would build just one machine at a time, mounted on a conventional truck chassis. He would drive them across the United States stopping in […]
February 23, 2018
Construction Equipment
Why Caterpillar invested in Powerhive, a smart microgrid delivering affordable power to developing communities
Since 2012, PowerHive has been delivering electricity to spread-out rural communities in developing nations. The company does this through a smart mix of software and hardware, a mix that recently attracted a $20 million Series A investment round. Caterpillar Venture Capital, the investment subsidiary of the heavy equipment giant, has announced its participation in that […]
January 27, 2016
Roadbuilding
Audi just created a new diesel made of water and carbon dioxide
While a future of electric charging stations dotting our highways inches closer to reality, Audi believes it may have created the “fuel of the future.” Audi announced that the first batch of what it calls, “e-diesel” was manufactured in energy partner Sunfire’s Dresden, Germany, facility. Water and carbon dioxide (CO2) are the only materials needed for […]
April 30, 2015
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
Construction Equipment
Mechanics: Your shop lights are safe. The death of the incandescent bulb has been greatly exaggerated
Almost all the major news outlets reported that come January 1, incandescent light bulbs will no longer be made for consumption in the United States. That worried me in that I frequently use a mechanic’s drop light and clamp lights in my shop. Fluorescents don’t have the candlepower for those applications. Trouble is, these stories […]
January 16, 2014
Roadbuilding
Shale and gas oil have positive economic effects, industry leaders tell House panel
Two shale energy representatives today told the United States House of Representatives Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy & Mineral Resources that shale gas and oil is having a positive economic affect on more than just the energy sector. Whit Perryman, CEO of Vermeer Equipment of Texas-Louisiana and Associated Equipment Distributors’ (AED) 2013 vice president, and […]
March 14, 2013
Equipment
Report: renewables will lead to blackouts in the greenest state
This is what happens when politics trump engineering. California is being warned of impending blackouts because there’s insufficient electrical generating capacity on cloudy, windless days to make the solar and wind farms work. When you let ideology overtake reality these sorts of things are bound to happen. Wind and solar power have a role to […]
March 1, 2013
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Construction of world’s largest thermal solar plant, makes for paradox
In a very interesting intersection of art and construction, the world’s largest concentrated solar thermal power plant is currently under construction and has made for some stunning photography. The Ivanpah Solar plant is being built in the Mojave Desert, NPR reports. Recently, photographer Jamey Stillings, who has documented the solar plant’s construction, shared some of […]
January 10, 2013
Construction Equipment
Solar panels cheaper to operate with new thermal energy storage system
A new method of storing the thermal energy collected through solar panels is not only cheaper than current methods, but does less damage to the storage tanks themselves.
November 13, 2012
Business
Green group endorses fracking
Environmental Defense Fund, EDF, environmentalists, fracking, oil companies
September 21, 2012
Construction Equipment
Massive oil/gas deposits found of coast of Israel
Israel, oil and gas
July 20, 2012
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