Fri May 04, 2007
Stainless Steel Succumbs to SK350 With LaBounty Shear
Teamwork and a Kobelco SK350 excavator with a LaBounty shear changed Utica Alloys’ scrap yard into a more efficient enterprise. Utica Alloys, located in Utica, N.Y., is a large scrap management company....
Maybelle G. Cagle - Wed April 25, 2007
Toyota Plant Site Cleared Weeks Ahead of Schedule
The first of many construction projects involving the $1.3 billion Toyota automotive plant near Tupelo has been completed weeks early. Hill Brothers Construction Co. of Faulkner, Miss., recently finished the first contract, clearing the core site in Blue Springs....
Lori Lovely - Mon April 23, 2007
GM Demolishes Plant in Lansing, Mich.
Due to the prohibitive cost of operating safely and in an environmentally friendly manner in two existing plants in Lansing, Mich., General Motors Corporation constructed two new facilities (the Grand River Assembly and Delta Township plants) to replace them....
Fri March 16, 2007
Komatsu America Launches Excavator With Tier III Engine
Komatsu America Corp. has introduced the PC228USLC-3 short tail swing excavator with Tier III engine. The new machine has a flywheel horsepower of 148 hp (110 kW), an operating weight between 49,900 to 51,110 lbs....
Thu April 19, 2007
Customized Deere Machines Work to Extract Sea Salt
Using nature’s power — the sun and wind — Cargill Salt in Redwood City, Calif., crystallizes natural sea salt from San Francisco Bay and uses it to produce products used in food, industry and agriculture....
Kate Zanoni - Fri April 20, 2007
M & L Builds Sizable Fleet With ’Get It Done’ Kind of Firm
By Kate ZanoniSPECIAL TO CEGFrank Marini worked for 11 years doing curbing and sidewalk work for his uncle’s construction company before founding M & L Construction, based in Trumball, Conn., in 1983....
Tue April 10, 2007
R.C. Hawkins Uses Compact Fleet for Erosion Control
Looking to take control of more business? The erosioncontrol market just might be your ticket. Under the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Phase II requirements, which protect water quality from the impact of construction activities, property owners are required to install erosion and storm-water controls such as drainage grading, check dams, silt fences and vegetative buffers....
Gwenyth Laird Pernie - Fri April 13, 2007
Site Clearing Completed Through ’Shear’ Effort
W. S. Agee Grading Contractors Inc. of McDonough, Ga., faced 80 acres (32 ha) of heavily timbered land in Covington that had to be cleared for a housing development. According to Owner Danny Agee, the building site was susceptible to extensive runoff due to severe elevation changes of upward to 300 ft....
Wed February 14, 2007
Deere’s D-Series Excavator Line Has Faster Hydraulics, Redesigned Cab
Three new additions to the John Deere D-Series excavators line — the 160D LC, 200D LC and 225D LC — retain many of the features of their predecessors, but significant improvements — including faster hydraulics, a redesigned cab, undercarriage enhancements and a new cooling system — deliver a boost in productivity and uptime, as well as lower daily costs....
Wed February 14, 2007
LBX Announces New Link-Belt X2 Series Excavators
LBX Company has introduced the new Link-Belt X2 Series of excavators. Power is achieved in the X2 due to the interaction between engine power and hydraulic power. The engine, hydraulics and on-board computer are matched to provide maximum power, productivity and efficiency, according to the manufacturer....
