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Roadbuilding
Record-breaking Midwest floods keep DOTs scrambling; NOAA predicts much more water coming
Extensive flooding across the Midwest has left several state DOTs scrambling to reopen roads and prepare for major road repairs. Learn more on Equipment World.
March 25, 2019
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
Dealers
Business Roundup: Superior expands General Equipment partnership; Deutz spreads Power Centers; Largest Cat dealer transaction; United Rentals buys Cummins power assets; Deere income soars
Superior expands partnership with General Equipment in Neb., Iowa General Equipment & Supplies, a Midwestern distributor of aggregate and construction equipment, has become an exclusive dealer for Superior Industries in Iowa and Nebraska. Superior has maintained a longtime partnership with General Equipment for selling and servicing its conveying equipment throughout the Upper Midwest. The expanded […]
September 12, 2017
Roadbuilding
Salt prices to hurt road budgets
With winter right around the corner, cold-weather states are starting to stockpile on rock salt to fight icy conditions. Unfortunately, several states will have to squeeze budgets due to skyrocketing prices. In Michigan, Ann Arbor area municipalities, school systems and road commissions are paying $76.58 per ton of rock salt. That’s more than double last year’s […]
September 24, 2014
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