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Construction Equipment

Manitou enters N. American mobile elevated work platform market with 5 models

Manitou, which has been manufacturing mobile elevated work platforms (MEWPs) since 1992 in Europe, is entering the North American market with five articulating boom models. Telescopic booms are expected to arrive later this year. Laurent Bonnaure, Manitou executive vice president, global sales and marketing, calls the move a natural progression of the company’s North American […]

February 22, 2018

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Kobelco adds Correlli and Frank Martin Sons to dealer network

Kobelco Construction Machinery USA has added Correlli, out of Dundalk, Maryland, and Frank Martin Sons, located in Fort Kent Mills, Maine, to its dealer network. Both dealerships will provide professional sales, rentals, parts and service support for Kobelco excavators. Correlli, dedicated to serving the landscaping, commercial property and residential construction industries, will offer compact Kobelco […]

January 22, 2018

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Worker dies after fall from 60 feet in Wisconsin

A construction worker was killed last week after suffering a high fall on a Wisconsin jobsite. According to a report from WKOW TV, 25-year-old Christopher Lord fell from a height of about 60 feet on the morning of August 17. The Wisconsin State Journal reports Lord was working as a framer at the site where an apartment […]

August 26, 2015

Lord fell 60 feet at an apartment complex in Madison where he was working as a framer. Photo Credit: Still from WKOW TV footage

Most commuters happy with new beltline signs

So far most drivers in Madison, Wisconsin, have been happy with the Department of Transportation’s new beltline signs. The DOT says the signs estimate travel times using detectors that track bluetooth signals coming from cars and/or cell phones. That information is then fired off to DOT computers in Milwaukee. “The detector calculates the time it […]

October 27, 2014

First vehicles cross new Milton-Madison Bridge

One week after the record-breaking slide of the Milton-Madison Bridge, vehicles are now able to drive across the span connecting Milton, Ky. and Madison, Ind. across the Ohio River. The span, which opened Thursday evening, replaces a bridge that was built in 1929. The new structure will allow large trucks to travel across for the first […]

April 21, 2014

The first vehicles traveled across the new Milton-Madison Bridge on Thursday shortly after the span opened at 7:20 p.m. (Photo credit: Milton-Madison Bridge Project)

Construction Equipment

Crews pull half-mile, 30 million-pound bridge into place in record-breaking slide

Construction crews have completed a record-breaking bridge slide over the Ohio River. At nearly a half-mile in length and weighing in at more than 30 million pounds, the Milton-Madison bridge is a new steel truss bridge that replaces a span originally built in 1929. It is now the largest bridge in North America (perhaps the […]

April 14, 2014

Milton Madison Bridge slide

Construction Equipment

Volvo Rents expands in Wisconsin

Volvo Rents has acquired FRED Rents, a two-location construction equipment rental company with stores in Madison and Neenah, Wisconsin. In addition to Volvo Rents’ line of Volvo compact equipment, the rental center carries a comprehensive line of essential equipment and tools for the construction, commercial, industrial and homeowner markets. The focus is on daily, weekly […]

October 26, 2012

Kaeser opens two new facilities

Kaeser Compressors opened two new factory-direct facilities on July 2. The new branch offices are responsible for supporting Kaeser’s industrial and commercial customers in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Among the services the new facilities will offer are scheduled preventive maintenance, air system and equipment design and installation, equipment repair services and parts, air system audits […]

July 25, 2012

Matt McCorkle is the manager for the Wisconsin and Minnesota Kaeser facilities.

Kaeser opens two new facilities

Kaeser Compressors opened two new factory-direct facilities on July 2. The new branch offices are responsible for supporting Kaeser’s industrial and commercial customers in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Among the services the new facilities will offer are scheduled preventive maintenance, air system and equipment design and installation, equipment repair services and parts, air system audits for […]

July 20, 2012

Kaeser opens two new facilities

Kaeser Compressors opened two new factory-direct facilities on July 2. The new branch offices are responsible for supporting Kaeser’s industrial and commercial customers in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Among the services the new facilities will offer are scheduled preventive maintenance, air system and equipment design and installation, equipment repair services and parts, air system audits for […]

July 20, 2012

Matt McCorkle is the manager at Kaeser’s new Wisconsin and Minnesota facilities.

Kenworth of Alabama, Mississippi open full-service dealership in Madison, Alabama

Kenworth of Alabama and Mississippi opened a new dealership in Madison, Ala., that offers truck drivers easy access to a full-service dealership right off Interstate 65 in Huntsville. Kenworth of Huntsville is a member of the Kenworth dealer network that has 305 locations in the United States and Canada.The dealership’s 25,000 square-foot facility offers 10 service bays with […]

July 8, 2011

Contractor Disaster Resources

FEMA: Aid registrations jump by 20,000 in Alabama

The number of people registering for FEMA assistance rose by 32 percent this week, for a total of nearly 64,000 individuals and households filing for disaster assistance within the first two weeks of the April 27th tornadoes. FEMA has approved a total of nearly $36 million through both their Individuals and Households Progam and the […]

May 13, 2011

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