by admin | Aug 12, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Manufacturer News
Joy Global Inc. has sold a steel plate mill in Longview, Texas, for $29 million. Milwaukee-based Joy Global (NYSE: JOY) announced that it has sold the company to Charlotte, N.C.-based Nucor Corp. All steel mill employees have transitioned to Nucor employment. Joy...
by admin | Aug 12, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Energy News, Manufacturer News
Caterpillar, Inc. expects no significant demand growth for its energy and transportation products for the rest of 2016 as oil prices stay weak, a senior executive said on Thursday. “Oil prices, drill rig counts and our customers’ fleet utilization rates...
by admin | Aug 12, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Manufacturer News
Caterpillar, Doosan look at secondhand market prospects Construction equipment makers are ramping up cooperation with auctioneers of secondhand equipment in China, because they are suffering from a prolonged sales slump amid this years’ slowdown of the...
by admin | Aug 11, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Workforce News
The most dangerous job in the U.S. is construction laborer, while the safest is accountant/auditor, according to a study released Thursday by Carlsbad, CA based CareerCast. Construction laborers toil in high-risk construction sites and, as a result, have the highest...
by admin | Aug 11, 2016 | Constuction & Business News
No one likes having their time wasted. And it was precisely that issue that led Alex Siljanovski to come up with the idea of Basestone, a collaborative tablet and web-based tool that is making building sites across the capital more efficient, from a single home...
by admin | Aug 10, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Crane & Lifting News, Manufacturer News
Manitowoc Cranes will need plenty of help to ramp up production of crawler cranes at its Grove Crane plant in Shady Grove. Direct employment is expected to increase over the next 36 months by 250 jobs with another 100 support positions created within the organization,...
