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Fri August 15, 2008

GOMACO’s Commander III Features New Roller Frame

The Wirtgen WR 2000 XL stabilizer/recycler is an updated model of the WR 2000 introduced in 2005. The WR 2000 XL adapts to North American requirements with an industry standard 8-ft.-wide (2.4 m) drum (instead of 6-ft....

Tue August 26, 2008

Flint Equipment Co. Expands With Van Lott Acquisition

Flint Equipment Company has expanded into the Carolinas with the acquisition of Van Lott Inc. The transaction, finalized July 11, means that Flint now has 10 branches in southern Georgia, northern Florida, eastern Alabama, western North Carolina and South Carolina....

Tue May 13, 2008

GOMACO Congratulates 2007 Top Ten Distributors for Sales

GOMACO Corporation recently recognized its Top Ten Distributors for sales in the 2007 fiscal year. The award was presented in recognition for outstanding sales and distribution of GOMACO equipment in the United States....

Jeff Brooks - Mon May 05, 2008

The Future Is Now

FDOT’s Design/Build/Finance Contract at the $430.5 Million iROX Project Is the First of Many to ComeAsk any contractor who has worked on a major road construction project and they can probably tell you horror stories about irate drivers who hurl insults — or worse — at work crews....

Thu April 24, 2008

GOMACO Honors Two Distributors for Their Years of Service

GOMACO Corporation recently honored Hayden-Murphy Equipment Company of Minnesota for its 30 years of service and Bierschbach Equipment & Supply Company of South Dakota for its 20 years of service as GOMACO equipment distributors....

Wed April 09, 2008

End-Around at Hartsfield-Jackson Called Success All the Way Around

It is the first of its kind on an American airport. In fact, there is only one other like it in the world on a major airport, and it’s in Frankfurt, Germany. It’s called an end-around, and work has just been completed on one at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Ga....

Mary Reed - Fri March 28, 2008

TxDOT’s I-35 Work to Link Major Highways

Two types of horsepower will soon be crossing ranch land south of Austin, Texas, now that State Highway 45SE (SH 45SE), is under construction north of Buda, Hays County. SH 45SE will link I-35 to the junction of State Highway 130 (SH 130) and U.S....

Thu February 14, 2008

GOMACO Offers Skewed Tining for Its Texture/Cure Machines

GOMACO’s T/C-400 and T/C-600 texture/cure machines are now available with a skewed tining option. It allows the travel of the tining bars to run a skewed path, while the frame of the machine is square to the slab....

Thu February 14, 2008

GOMACO C-750 Finishes Concrete in a Single Pass

The GOMACO C-750 finisher has the capability of finishing concrete up to 156 ft. (47.5 m) wide. It has many of the same features as the C-450 cylinder finisher, including automatic advance, automatic self-widening carriage, powered widening to maintain crown position on tapered decks, and operator enhanced monitoring of the machine functions with panel-mounted bogie and carriage circuit pressure gauges....

Wed February 27, 2008

Shirley Concrete Pours 16,357 Ft. in Just 10 Hours

The Willow Oaks subdivision project in Shelby County, Ala., had more than 16,000 ft. (4,877 m) of 30-in. (76.2 cm) valley gutter. It would be a typical project for Shirley Concrete Company and its GOMACO Commander III....