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Construction Equipment
Contractor finds niche success with roller-compacted concrete
If you were to ask Robert Smith, he’d tell you – he’s glad he found a new niche. After four decades in the asphalt paving business in and around Chattanooga, Tennessee, Smith has seen the highs and lows of a trade entwined with a fluctuating economy and volatile commodity prices. It’s a brutally competitive […]
February 1, 2013
Construction Equipment
Volvo receives Equipment World Innovations Award
Pamela Messer and Ian Harvey (center and right) receive the 2013 Equipment World Innovations Award from our own Geoffrey Love, director of sales, heavy construction. Volvo won the award for its On-board weighing system for articulated trucks. The OBW system measures the weight of the truck’s loads with sensors and relays that information to the […]
January 30, 2013
Business
Volvo CE appoints Thorsten Poszwa as global director of external communications
Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has appointed Thorsten Poszwa as the company’s new global director of external communications, effective May 1. Poszwa will be based at Volvo CE’s headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, where he will focus on print and online media relations for the business as well as develop worldwide external communication standards and practices […]
January 29, 2013
Business
Volvo moves North American backhoe production from Mexico to Brazil
Volvo Construction Equipment will move its North American backhoe production from its plant in Tultitlan, Mexico, to Pederneiras, Brazil. Volvo says the move will “streamline production and gain efficiencies of scale.” The Brazil plant will produce backhoes for both North and Latin America. To accommodate the move, the Brazil plant will receive a $10 million expansion. Volvo says […]
January 18, 2013
Construction Equipment
Volvo Construction sales fall 9 percent in third quarter, huge dip in operating income
Volvo Construction Equipment reports that it has reduced production and inventory in its facilities along with inventories at its dealers in response to a drop in sales and an "uncertain outlook."
October 24, 2012
Business
Telematics to the rescue
To Detective Daniel Pearson, ace construction equipment theft investigator, equipment telematics are invaluable when it comes to stolen machine recovery. “About 90 percent of machines that have telematics can be recovered,” the Haltom City, Texas, police officer said during the Construction Symposium held last month in Dallas. Ric Simon, Phoenix, Arizona branch manager with Arnold […]
September 11, 2012
Roadbuilding
Is it Time for a New Wheel Loader?
Advanced electronics, drivetrain refinements, can make the case for a new machine.
September 6, 2012
Construction Equipment
Equipment theft means easy money
Skid steers, tractors and backhoes make up 68 percent of all reported construction equipment thefts, according to Corporal Daniel Pearson, a detective with the Haltom City Police Department, speaking at the Construction Symposium in Dallas yesterday. And the losses to contractors don’t stop with the machine. “You also have figure in the downtime you have […]
August 24, 2012
Safety
Volvo CE offers Road Institute courses
Volvo Construction Equipment is offering courses during the 2012-2013 Road Institute. The course curriculum offers two- to five-day sessions beginning in October and continuing through May 2013, with classes held at two training facilities in North America. These facilities are located in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and Phoenix, Arizona. Road Institute focuses on the hot-mix asphalt (HMA) […]
August 16, 2012
Equipment
Machine Matters
Is it time for a new wheel loader?  Advanced electronics, drivetrain refinements make the case for a new machine   By Marcia Gruver Doyle   As you’ve waited for the economy to turn, your wheel loaders have aged, and now those machines are perhaps two generations behind what’s currently in dealer order books. […]
August 7, 2012
Construction Equipment
Looking to buy a construction model? Check the review first.
Contractors love construction models — we’ve seen many proud displays when we visit their offices.  While they receive a number of these models as gifts from appreciative equipment dealers, those gifts may only be the start of life long collections. If you’ve gotten the model collecting bug, here’s the website for you. Cranes Etc. was […]
August 1, 2012
Construction Equipment
Volvo Construction Equipment up 15%
Volvo Construction Equipment saw sales increase 15 percent in second quarter. Volvo says the company has strengthen its market position in wheel loader and excavator sales in China, taking a 14.7% share.? Despite a downturn in the Chinese market, which declined by 38% during the quarter, Volvo CE says its sales were positively affected by […]
July 24, 2012
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