Cleveland-based Lincoln Electric and David Lincoln have co-funded the first endowed professorship in welding engineering at The Ohio State University. In addition to a $1 million donation, the company also donated or consigned approximately $420,000 worth of welding equipment and technology for use by Ohio State students and faculty.
Canadian-based Camoplast Solideal has been relaunched as Camso. Serving the construction market as well as material handling, agriculture and powersports, the company manufactures tires, tracks and track systems for off road vehicles, and has brown from $95 million to more than $1 billion in sales in seven years. Camso has become the world’s second-largest specialized player in the market, says Pierre Marcouiller, chairman of the board and CEO.
Volunteer members of the Decorative Concrete Council, a specialty council of the American Society of Concrete Contractors, placed and finished a decorative concrete slab for the Ken Caryl Veterans Monument in Ken Caryl, Colorado.
Chris Sullivan of ChemSystems in Littleton served as the project manager for the installation, which included more than $52,000 in time and materials donated.
Companies supplying tools, materials and service included Aggregate Industries, CEMEX, ChemSystems Inc., Clemons Concrete Coatings, CNA, Colorado Hardscapes, ConcreteNetwork.com, Concrete Equipment and Supply, Diamatic USA, H&C Decorative Concrete Products, Lakebrink’s Custom Concrete, McClure Concrete, McMahon Contracting, L.P., Peterson Group, Pritchard Concrete, Putzmeister America, Sika Greenstreak, Somero, Southwest Concrete Pumping, Sticks and Stones Supply, TODDROSE Decorative Concrete, Wagman Metals, and Western Hardscapes.
H&E Equipment Services’ Oklahoma City operation has relocated to a newly constructed facility. Located at 10700 NW 4th Street in Yukon, the branch will serve the entire Oklahoma City area. Situated on 5.24 acres, the 20,000-square-foot facility includes office space, a parts warehouse, a large yard area and an eight-bay repair shop that includes two 5-ton overhead cranes.
