Tue November 29, 2005
Hitachi EX1900 Improves Productivity at Oregon Quarry Op
In quarry operations, it’s not easy to replace a piece of equipment that has provided decades of reliable service. However, when that equipment has outlived its practicality and replacing it can significantly reduce downtime and increase production, nostalgia takes a back seat to good business sense....
Tue November 15, 2005
Joint Task Force Deploys Hitachi Iron for Operation Alaskan Road
It’s not often that a joint military training exercise can directly benefit a local community. But on Annette Island, off Alaska’s southeast coast, service personnel from every branch of the military are taking part in an ongoing, annual Joint Task Force (JTF) road-construction exercise, which will do just that....
Sat September 10, 2005
Murphy Named as Hitachi Dealer in Four Midwestern States
Hitachi Construction and Mining Products named Murphy Tractor & Equipment Company as its dealer in four Midwestern states. Murphy Tractor & Equipment, founded in 1982, is headquartered in Wichita, KS, and has 16 locations throughout the Midwestern states of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska....
Wed June 01, 2005
Firm Celebrates Gold With Hitachi Orange
The 750 employees of Texas Sterling Construction are celebrating the company’s golden anniversary. Its 50th is shaping up to be its best year ever, in part due to Hitachi. In 1981, Sterling Construction founders Jim and Pat Manning moved from Michigan way down south to the booming Houston metro....
Mon April 18, 2005
Hitachi Drives Lattimore Operations in TX
In a world dominated by publicly owned ready-mix and aggregate companies, Lattimore Materials is a thriving, family-owned business. But don’t equate “family owned” with “small.”Headquartered in McKinney, TX, Lattimore is one of the top three ready-mix producers in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex....
Thu September 09, 2004
Maltese Works in Tight Quarters With Hitachi Zaxis 135US
Approximately 300,000 residential in-ground pools are built every year. Many are installed in spacious lots with plenty of elbow room for construction. Installing pools in New York/New Jersey area, however, means excavating in an area not much larger than the pool itself....
Mon April 12, 2004
Hitachi Makes Earth Move on MODOT Job
In Missouri, rigid-frame trucks are usually associated with rock work, not dirt work. Rain turns dirt to mud and clay, and conventional thinking says, “Use articulated trucks” if there’s any possibility of moisture....
Fri December 05, 2003
MA’s Francesco Demolition Does It All With Hitachis
Big or small, Francesco Demolition Inc., of Duxbury, MA, does it all, said Frank Durante, company founder. “Houses, factories, or large shopping centers — there’s nothing we can’t tackle.”
Durante did not start out in demolition....
Tue August 12, 2003
NC Firm Nimbly Performs Right-of-Way Clearing With Shinn, Hitachi Combo
Some construction companies strive to offer a wide variety of services to their customers. Others prefer to specialize. Southern Clearing Inc. of Charlotte, NC, is a niche company that cuts a broad swath in the right of way clearing business because of the cutter system it uses on its excavators.
“We work all over the Southeast,” said David Bonheimer, owner and former salesman with JW Burress Inc.
“Water, sewer, natural gas, electric power — that’s our kind of specialty, whether it’s alongside the road or out in the woods....
Wed April 02, 2003
WV’s Polino Contracting Hauls Ash With Hitachi Trucks
Some companies like niches. Not Polino Contracting Inc. Known as one of West Virginia’s largest heavy/highway contracting firms and active in several nearby states. It is not afraid to shift its specialty as the market changes....
