The proprietors of the Liebherr Group, Dr. h.c. Dipl.-Ing. (ETH) Willi Liebherr, President of the Administrative Board of Liebherr-International AG, and his sister Dipl.-Kfm. Isolde Liebherr, its Vice-President, have assigned a proportion of their shares in the Liebherr Group’s parent company to their children.
Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc. (ADS) has announced that it will open a new manufacturing plant in Clifford, Michigan to meet the growing demand for the company's corrugated high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe. The plant is expected to be in operation during the second calendar quarter of 2012. This will be ADS' second pipe production facility in Michigan, complementing the existing plant located in Owosso. “The new Clifford facility is strategically located to help serve the growing customer base in the “thumb” of Michigan, as well as southwestern Ontario”, stated Joe Chlapaty, Chairman and CEO of Advanced Drainage Systems.
Johann Sailer new at the helm of the German Construction Equipment and Building Material Machinery Association (VDMA) and President of the Committee of the European Construction Equipment (CECE)
The members of the Construction Equipment and Building Material Machinery Association within VDMA e.V., the German Engineering Federation, have unanimously elected Johann Sailer (50), Managing Partner at GEDA-Dechentreiter GmbH & Co KG, Asbach-Bäumenheim, to be their new chairman for the coming three years at their annual assembly in Bremen today.
Ellicott Dredges, LLC had a record-breaking Q4 of 2011, and a full year 2011. In fact over just the last 40 days of the year, the Ellicott team successfully shipped over a dozen new dredges to 7 different countries, including to every inhabited continent, setting an industry record. For the full year Ellicott made deliveries in over 25 countries. The dredges shipped in Q4 were both stock and custom designs, and ranged in size from a 300 SL 8" (200 mm) Swinging Ladder Dredge to several 1870 20" (500 mm) Cutterhead Dredges. The shipments required 87 truck loads from Ellicott's...
Max Bögl Transport und Geräte GmbH & Co. KG has bought two Terex AC 350/6 units after looking at its performance characteristics, “The fact that the Terex AC 350/6 is the most powerful crane in its class made it ideal for our purposes.
The unit’s maximum hook height and the corresponding lifting capacity on the main boom and the strong fixed jib were—quite literally—powerful arguments when it came to making a decision,” explains foreman Herbert Wieseckl, who works at the Max Bögl Group’s Heavy Equipment for Building Construction department.
The fact that the AC 350/6 is also characterized by...
More than 9,100 heavy equipment items and trucks to sell over six days in Orlando, Florida, USA between February 13 – 18, 2012 Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world’s largest industrial auctioneer, will sell more items than ever before at its unreserved public equipment auction in Orlando, Florida, USA from February 13 – 18, 2012. During the six-day event, more than 9,100 heavy equipment items and trucks will be sold—a Company record for the most items ever sold in a single auction—and new items are still being added daily. Bids in the auction can be made on-site at the 200±-acre...
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