Construction Industry News

MILWAUKEE (February 8, 2016) - The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) has won “Fastest 50” honors for three AEM-run exhibitions held in 2015:

LOS ANGELES (January 20, 2016) —The winter season continues to create an inordinate amount of storm activity across North America, forcing businesses to reevaluate the priority and required functionality of their safety gear. Cold weather increases hazards related to rain, snow and ice, exposing workers to dangerous fall and slipping risks and making it important for employers to equip their workers with the correct gear.

MILWAUKEE (January 27, 2016) - The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) has produced a new brush chipper safety manual that outlines safe equipment operation, start-up and shutdown guidelines and maintenance precautions for a variety of brush chipper machine types.

Manufacturer members working through AEM’s Environmental & Reduction Equipment Council (EREC) provided content development and review, with input also provided by AEM’s Forestry Equipment Council.

NATIONAL (January 27, 2016) — The Power Tool Institute (PTI) recently announced the launch of its new website. PTI’s new site features mobile compatibility and easy access to specific safety information for various tool types, including information for teachers to use in the classroom.

CHICAGO, Ill. (January 26, 2016) – UL’s Integrated Health & Safety Institute (IHSI) announced that it has published a new standard to address how closely aligning health and safety strategies can yield measurable benefits. 

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (January 27, 2016) - ACT Construction Equipment, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, joins Bandit Industries’ growing network of authorized dealers. ACT is stocking Bandit's compact line with a wide range of hand fed chippers and stumpers in stock and ready to show and demonstrate. They are fully stocked with parts and trained to service hand fed chippers and stump grinders.

SAN FRANCISCO (January 19, 2016) – The construction industry is entering 2016 less optimistic than in 2015, but overall bullish about local, nonresidential construction activity, according to a recent survey of industry contractors and equipment distributors released from Wells Fargo Equipment Finance, a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company.

WASHINGTON (January 21, 2016) – The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation (the Foundation) has released the January 2016 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry (MCI-EFI). Overall, confidence in the equipment finance market is 54.0, easing from the December index of 60.2.

Omaha, NE (January 25, 2015) – Proxibid will provide online bidding for Alex Lyon & Son’s seven-day auction in Kissimmee, Florida. The auction will feature rental returns, construction equipment, aerials, forklifts, cranes, dump trucks, truck tractors, trailers, support and attachments.

MOLINE, Ill. (Jan. 4, 2016) - Winter Storm Goliath, a massive system named by forecasters that caused numerous tornadoes and historic flooding along major rivers, impacting more than seven states throughout the South and Midwest during the past week and resulting in many deaths, is unprecedented.

MONTREAL, QC (January 14, 2016) — To coincide with unpredictable winter conditions in North America and Europe, CM Labs Simulations has released a new operator training solution. The Montreal-based company bolstered its lineup with a new rough terrain mobile crane module.

NATIONAL (January 8, 2016) - Hard Surface Products Distribution Inc. recently announced the launch of its brand new e-commerce website, Asphalttool.com. Asphalttool.com is an easy, affordable e-commerce site providing pavement equipment, tools and materials. Asphalttol.com offers only the highest quality products from leading industry manufacturers and suppliers.

WASHINGTON (January 12, 2016) — The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA) revealed its Top 10 Equipment Acquisition Trends for 2016.

ARLINGTON, Va. (January 13, 2016) – A recent study conducted by the HVACR Workforce Development Foundation estimates at least 115,000 new HVACR workers must be trained by 2022 to fill jobs due to industry growth and retirements.

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (January 14, 2016) – The American Concrete Institute (ACI), an organization whose mission it is to develop and disseminate consensus-based knowledge on concrete and its uses, will be conducting a press conference at World of Concrete on Wednesday, February 3, 2016, to announce the launch of essential new resources for the concrete professional.

What: American Concrete Institute Press Conference

WEST FARGO, N.D. (December 2015)  — Bobcat Company and Doosan joined North Dakota State University (NDSU) to dedicate its new STEM Classroom and Lab Building, which will support studies in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

ANAHEIM, Calif. (1/1/2016) —Isuzu Commercial Truck of America Inc. announced that it shattered two long-standing sales records in 2015—for the highest parts sales and for sales of Isuzu commercial trucks.

Isuzu dealers retailed 20,725 Isuzu trucks to customers in 2015—a record for Isuzu trucks in the United States. This record included a whopping 10.5 percent gain in Isuzu N-Series sales versus 2014.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (December 2, 2015) – B2W Software announced that C.A. Hull is leveraging the company’s suite of construction software to streamline enterprise-wide operations. 

WASHINGTON (January 5, 2016) - Unusually mild weather in much of the country coupled with general improvement in the nation's economy benefited construction and consequently construction unemployment rates in November.