by admin | Oct 4, 2016 | Manufacturer News
Maximizing productivity and minimizing operating costs are always top of mind during product design for global plant and light construction equipment specialist, Wacker Neuson, and the 3503 excavator is certainly no exception. The quality and reliability integrated...
by admin | Oct 4, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Manufacturer News
PRENTICE (WAOW) – A Minnesota-based company said Monday it completed the acquisition of a heavy equipment factory in Prentice formerly owned by Caterpillar, saving dozens of jobs. Caterpillar’s Prentice Forestry facility in Wisconsin will close in September...
by admin | Oct 4, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment & Construction Videos, Manufacturer News
Paderborn-based crane service provider Hofmann Kran-Vermietung & Co. KG Autokrane relied on the Terex Superlift 3800 lattice boom crawler crane in order to erect a 200-meter Nordex wind turbine close to Bickenbach, in the Hunsrück mountain range, on behalf of its...
by admin | Oct 4, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment & Construction Videos, Manufacturer News
The Terex CTT 161 tower crane had more than proven its worth during the first stage of new construction for the “Matthias-Claudius-Haus” nursing home in Waldshut, Germany, so Waldshut-Tiengen-based construction company Schleith insisted on the use of a Terex crane for...
by admin | Oct 4, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Manufacturer News
Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., the world’s biggest maker of giant excavators, has offered 689 million Australian dollars ($529 million) to buy Australia’s Bradken Ltd. The purchase would be its biggest ever and is likely to boost profit by about 10 percent,...
by admin | Oct 4, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment Rental News, Manufacturer News
A CEMENT truck which crashed onto its side in a four-vehicle accident causing afternoon peak hour chaos in Sydney’s inner west. Action Cranes 130-ton Capacity Liebherr LTM 1130-5.1 mobile all terrain crane was brought in but initial attempts failed because the load...