Photo courtesy Caterpillar Inc. Cat is ending a four-year partnership with Navistar and bringing vocational truck production in house starting next year. Related Links: Brazil Construction Machinery Sales Face Steep Drop in 2015 Caterpillar CT680 Expands Construction Truck Line Sales of construction equipment are performing better this year, but suppliers are taking a cautious approach to their full-year outlooks due to a slow mining sector, soft construction in Europe, China and Brazil, and less exploratory work in the oil patch.“While economic conditions in the United States are modestly positive, the global economy remains relatively stagnant,” said Doug Oberhelman, Caterpillar Inc.
Photo courtesy John Deere The new John Deere 1050K crawler dozer now comes with five years of basic telematics service for free. Related Links: Telematics: Moving Data and Dirt Deere's 1050K Dozes Into the Production Class Members of the Association of Equipment Management Professionals are working on a certification app for the standard telematics code the group has developed for construction machinery.“It’s like a Good Housekeeping Seal,” Stan Orr, the Glenwood, Colo.-based association’s executive director, told ENR during a July 14 phone interview. “We want to make sure our members—the equipment customer—is getting what they are told they are going
Photo courtesy M&T Expo Despite a steep decline in machinery sales, global vendors at Latin American expo in June said they plan to maintain a strong presence in Brazil. Related Links: For Brazil Equipment Buyers, Support Is King Deere Expands Into Brazil (requires login) Construction machinery sales in Brazil this year will reach 15,800 units, a 37.8% decrease compared to the 25,389 units sold in 2014, according to the Association of Equipment Manufacturers. However, the downturn has not deterred global suppliers from building a presence in the Latin American country, where import taxes are high and much infrastructure build-out is
Photo by Tudor Van Hampton/ENR The Chevrolet City Express is a rebadged Nissan NV200 serviced through the GM dealer network. Photo by Tudor Van Hampton/ENR The passenger seat folds down to reveal a handy workstation. Related Links: Test Drive: Nissan NV200 Compact Work Van Nissan Presents Practical Alternative to the Traditional Contractor Van Within the still-growing compact van category, Ford Motor Co. dominates, selling more than 24,000 Transit Connect models in the first half of this year. That’s nearly three times more than its closest rival, Nissan, according to PickupTrucks.com. General Motors is a major player in full-size vans with
Photo courtesy Caterpillar Inc. Cat's new 745C articulated truck is guaranteed to run at or below 8 gallons per hour. Related Links: With Emissions Behind Them, Manufacturers Target Fuel Economy Telematics: Moving Data and Dirt In less than two months since it kicked off, Caterpillar’s first fuel-consumption guarantee program, called Cat Pays You Back, now has more than 540 machines enrolled across the U.S. and Canada.“It’s been really successful,” Jason Hurdis, senior market professional, told ENR during a June 30 phone interview from Cat’s corporate office in Peoria, Ill. “It’s really backing up what Caterpillar is about and the fuel-efficiency
Related Links: 3M Capital Safety In the largest-ever acquisition by the St. Paul, Minn.-based manufacturing giant, 3M agreed to acquire Bloomington, Minn.-based Capital Safety from private equity firm KKR for $2.5 billion. Capital Safety is one of the industry's biggest makers of fall-protection safety equipment."The acquisition of Capital Safety bolsters our personal-safety platform and will build on our fundamental strengths in technology," said 3M Chairman Inge G. Thulin in a press statement. "Personal safety is a large and strategically important growth business in the 3M portfolio." In the same statement, 3M described the protective-equipment industry as a strategic priority for
Photo Courtesy of DESPE Bluevale in Glasgow, Scotland, is being demolished using the TopDownWay system. Photo Courtesy of DESPE Despe's TopDownWay system encases the top three floors of a tower undergoing demolition in a jobsite 'cocoon,' allowing continued access at street level while demolition activities devour the skyscraper, floor by floor. Related Links: The 2015 2Q Cost Report, with Data and Analysis Despe Safedem When seen from above, it looks like a giant orange spider perched on top of a skyscraper. But Italy-based Despe's TopDownWay demolition system is a method that takes down towers faster—and sometimes cheaper—than regular demolition techniques."You
Courtesy of Freightliner The proposed rule would cover buses, large pickup trucks and vans, large work trucks and tractor-trailers. Related Links: With Emissions Behind Them, Manufacturers Target Fuel Economy Fuel Economy Standards To Tighten Again for Work Trucks The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have jointly proposed a new set of greenhouse-gas and fuel-efficiency rules for medium and heavy-duty trucks. If adopted, the rules would save U.S. households an average of $150 a year by 2030 if fleets pass fuels savings to customers, agencies say.Announced June 19, the proposal is the second phase of a
Photo courtesy ALL Family of Companies Mounted on a barge in the Chicago River, Manitowoc 888 RINGER can lift 660 tons. Related Links: 150 N. Riverside Site Inspires Riverside Operations Custom Launching Gantry Builds Over Busy NYC Railway A bright red Manitowoc 888 ring-type crane sitting on a barge in the Chicago River is playing a critical role in the construction of 150 North Riverside tower, whose site is sandwiched on a narrow, 380-ft-long spit of land between the river and a rail corridor.For general contractor Clark Construction Group, Chicago, and subcontractor Chicago Steel Construction LLC, Merrillville, Ind., the challenge
For decades, crane engineers have created new markets with incremental changes to their tried-and-tested lifting systems. However, the ongoing quest to make heavy-lift cranes more powerful and efficient regularly comes down to one problem: counterweights.
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