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Negotiators selected to mold passable highway bill
The House and Senate selected members of both parties to serve as negotiators who can eliminate differences that exist in the separate, multi-year highway bills both chambers drafted. Their task is to take elements of both and create a version… Keep Reading
Sandvik dealer adds breaker line to offerings
Sandvik Construction named Crusher Works a new distributor for the Bretec range of breakers throughout Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, north Florida and west Tennessee. According to Sandvik, Crusher Works is an existing Sandvik distributor for drilling, mobile crushing and screening products.… Keep Reading
Terex Finlay adds tracked mobile cone crusher to its line
Terex Finlay debuted the C-1554 cone crusher in its range of tracked mobile cone crushers. The C-1554 features large reduction ratios and produces cubically shaped material for the surface ore mining and aggregate industries, according to the company. The machine… Keep Reading
BASF to reorganize four of its businesses
BASF plans to reorganize its paper, water, oilfield and mining businesses within its performance chemicals division to foster customer and industry focus, while also increasing competitiveness. BASF will combine its Water Solutions and Paper Chemicals businesses to form a new global… Keep Reading
Hyundai appoints Midwest district sales manager
Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas named Edward Harseim as its Midwest district sales manager. Harseim will support Hyundai dealers throughout a 14-state territory ranging from North Dakota to Tennessee. Harseim has 15 years of sales and support experience in the heavy… Keep Reading
AEM dubs ‘I Make America’ award winners
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) named the 2015 winners of its grassroots advocacy awards for companies that have reached the highest level of activity in its “I Make America” campaign. AEM created the awards to help build grassroots support… Keep Reading
Kaman to acquire Calkins Fluid Power
Kaman Corp., headquartered in Bloomfield, Conn., signed an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Calkins Fluid Power. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. Calkins, founded in the 1920s and headquartered in Spokane, Wash., is an authorized distributor… Keep Reading
Feds push to boost funding for infrastructure projects
As the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate prepare to negotiate a new highway bill, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is pushing lawmakers to boost the funding for infrastructure projects, reports The Hill. Lawmakers are going to conference soon over a multiyear highway-funding… Keep Reading
Baldor promotes Fitts to director of quality
Baldor Electric promoted Ryan Fitts from director of logistics to director of quality. In this position, Fitts will be responsible for leading and directing Baldor’s Corporate Quality program with a focus on addressing customer concerns, on-time delivery and root causes… Keep Reading
