Related Links: See all of ENR's Coverage of CONEXPO 2014 This week we look at a giant crane from Terex and a barrel-mounted jobsite camera from Eye Trax. Click to begin the slide show.
Photo courtesy of BASF BASF microspheres are contained in a liquid form for ease of dispensing and mixing. Related Links: World of Concrete 2014 Sees Smaller Crowds But Cautious Optimism Concrete Goes To College BASF Corp., Cleveland, recently previewed a new liquid admixture it claims eliminates the need for air-entrained concrete, a material used in regions exposed to freeze-thaw cycles.Touted as breakthrough technology, the still-unnamed chemical product has been in development for eight years and will be available in 2015. The additive uses millions of microspheres coated with tough but flexible polymeric shells, "similar to very tiny tennis balls," explains
Photo courtesy Wolffkran Wolffkran pioneered the modern tower crane in 1910 and plans to return to the U.S. after a 25-year hiatus. Photo courtesy Wolffkran A freestanding Wolff 1250B works on a pumped-storage dam in the Swiss Alps at Valais. Related Links: New York City Floats Ban on Old Cranes Looking Back: Tower Cranes Enabled Construction of Tall Buildings One of the oldest crane manufacturers, Wolffkran AG, is moving up in the world, with two new high-profile construction projects planned in New York City and San Francisco. Having received support from building officials to operate its signature red tower cranes
Rendering courtesy Liebherr Liebherr plans to use a new building to produce common-rail fuel systems for its line of diesel engines. Related Links: Liebherr Showcases Earthmoving, Lift Equipment at CONEXPO Liebherr Plans To Grow U.S. Market Share By 300% Construction equipment maker Liebherr Group plans to invest $225 million over the next six years and add nearly 248,000 square feet to expand production of clean-diesel engines at its production subsidiary in Bulle, Switzerland.Demand for clean-diesel engine technology worldwide is fueling the need for companies like Liebherr to streamline and expand production of mobile power plants. The Bulle expansion includes a
Photo courtesy of Hertz Hertz Equipment Rental Corp. is the country's third-largest equipment-rental company, with $1.54 billion in revenue last year. Related Links: Tax Law Changes May Hurt Equipment Sales, Boost Rentals in 2014 2014 Equipment Forecast: Mixed Growth Dampens New Machine Sales By spinning off its equipment-rental business, Hertz Global Holdings Inc. hopes to make the construction unit stronger while bolstering its core car-rental service. The Park Ridge, N.J.-based company plans to divest the 355-branch equipment unit into a separate, publicly traded company, valued at $2.5 billion."Hertz was starving the equipment-rental business through a lack of investment," explains Nicholas
Photo by Tudor Van Hampton for ENR Attendees crowded into the Caterpillar booth at CONEXPO 2014. Related Links: ENR Full CONEXPO Coverage Facing Soft Demand in Second Quarter, Caterpillar and Terex Look To Refocus Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Douglas R. Oberhelman says he is “very guardedly optimistic” about 2014 in the U.S. and abroad.“But compared to last year, maybe slightly less guarded,” Oberhelman told the media during the CONEXPO-CON/AGG exhibition, held earlier this month in Las Vegas. After what Cat saw in 2013, he added, “we are keeping all eyes on every cost and every growth piece."Oberhelman offered the following
Image courtesy PCA Concrete and asphalt marketers have been fighting for more highway share, but ready-mix campaign excludes main-line paving. Here, a recent ad from PCA. Photo by Tudor Van Hampton for ENR NAPA displayed asphalt bumper stickers at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2014. Related Links: Boosting Fuel Economy Where The Rubber Meets the Road Concrete Goes To College College basketball fans are not likely to see a "Got Concrete?" ad campaign appear on television during March Madness, but that could come if the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association is successful in gaining support for its pending checkoff campaign. The effort ups the
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