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Operation’s owners preserve, refurbish historic equipment
Bulldozers. Cranes. Crushers. Dump trucks. Equipment is seemingly everywhere at Lakeside Sand & Gravel, a family-owned operation in Mantua, Ohio. Only a handful of the machines on site are the kind you’ll typically find operating in a modern-day sand or… Keep Reading
Safety consultant: Speak up to achieve safety excellence
Zach Knoop, a senior safety consultant at Caterpillar Safety Services, asked two straightforward questions to aggregate producers at the start of an AGG1 Academy educational session he led in Nashville, Tenn. The first: How many of you want your employees… Keep Reading
Atlas Copco surface drill designed to optimize efficiency
Atlas Copco’s SmartROC D60 surface drill was designed to increase productivity and consistency. According to the company, the SmartROC D60 drills accurate quarry, construction and surface mining blastholes from 4 1/2 to 7 in. in diameter. The SmartROC D60 is… Keep Reading
Caterpillar to withdraw from vocational truck market
Caterpillar will discontinue production of its on-highway vocational trucks. Cat chose to discontinue production because of the current business climate in that market, the company reports. Cat launched its first vocational truck in the North American market in 2011, and… Keep Reading
Caterpillar names new group president
Caterpillar named Denise Johnson as group president of Resources Industries. The appointment follows the retirement of Group President Ed Rapp. Johnson currently serves as vice president with responsibility for Cat's Material Handling & Underground Division. Johnson joined Caterpillar in 2011… 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
Cat announces several major cost reduction plans
Caterpillar Inc. announced several major cost reduction plans to lower Cat's operating costs by about $1.5 billion. Cost reduction plans include cutting jobs, creating a retirement enhancement plan and reorganizing several divisions. Cat says this year is the company’s third consecutive… Keep Reading
Cat 320C feeds a 1200 impactor at Sergeant Stone
Check out this Caterpillar excavator feeding limestone to the new 1200 closed-circuit impact crusher at Sergeant Stone, an aggregate-producing company in Corning, Ohio. Keep Reading