CATERPILLAR ANNOUNCES NEW GROUP PRESIDENT

TractoPart | Jan 16, 2016 | 0 comments

Denise Johnson, currently vice president with responsibility for the Material Handling & Underground Division, as group president of Resources Industries. “Denise leads one of the largest and most complex businesses in the company; her division makes products primarily for the mining, waste and construction industries and employs about 8,000 people in 14 locations spanning four

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HIDRAULIC PARTS

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ATTACHMENTS

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Rise in accidents reveals dark side of New York’s building surge

TractoPart | Jan 14, 2016 | 0 comments

©Bloomberg The number of workers injured in New York City construction accidents rose by more than 50 per cent last year, stoking fears that builders are cutting corners to cash in on the rally in the metropolitan area’s trillion-dollar-plus property market. Demand for residential accommodation in the city that never sleeps has pushed the median

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GLOBAL EQUIPMENT RENTAL MARKET WORTH $84.60 BILLION BY 2022

TractoPart | Jan 14, 2016 | 0 comments

The Construction Equipment Rental Market Analysis By Product (Earthmoving, Material handling, Concrete & Road Construction) and Segment Forecasts to 2022 prepared by Grand View Research says the construction equipment rental market in 2014 was valued at over $34 billion and is expected to grow to $84 billion in the next six years. The study breaks

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JCB NAMES WITTER VP MANUFACTURING IN SAVANNAH

TractoPart | Jan 14, 2016 | 0 comments

JCB North America has appointed Tim Witter as its VP-manufacturing. Witter will be responsible for JCB’s North American Manufacturing Center, which builds the company’s skid steer and compact track loaders, the 3CX backhoe loader and the HMEE (High Mobility Engineer Excavator). Witter oversees all of the Savannah-based manufacturing departments including the Engineering, Production, Manufacturing Purchasing

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Peru: Agro-industrial, mining exports expanded between Jan – Nov 2015

TractoPart | Jan 13, 2016 | 0 comments

Despite the complicated international economic environment, non-metallic mining and agro-industrial exports expanded between January and November 2015, Peru’s Exporters Association (Adex) reported. Over the first 11 months of the previous year, agro-industrial and farming sectors’ shipments totaled US$3.8 billion and registered therefore a 1.8% growth compared to the similar term in 2014. “The sector

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VOLVO: How to Use the Electric Quick Attachment Function

TractoPart | Jan 13, 2016 | 0 comments

Our Skid Steer Loaders Product Manager, Kevin Scotese, shows us how to use the optional electric quick attachment coupler on all C-Series Volvo Skid Steers & Compact Loaders to ease the removal and insertion of your attachment quickly and effectively. To learn more about the Electric Quick Attachment Function and Attachment Couplers on our Skid

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Liebherr mobile crane LTM 1750-9.1 at Hamburg’s Elbe Philharmonic Hall

TractoPart | Jan 12, 2016 | 0 comments

Almost finished: Thömen’s LTM 1750-9.1 removes the last construction crane from the Elbe Philharmonic Hall in the Port of Hamburg with an impressive hook height of 127 metres. The Elbe Philharmonic Hall, a future concert hall and architectural highlight in the Port of Hamburg, can now be seen without any construction cranes for the first

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ENGINE COMPONENTS

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Versatile Carmix takes concrete to North Mara Gold Mine in Tanzania

May 1, 2017

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The gold mine in North Mara is situated in the north-west of Tanzania, at about 100 kilometres east of Lake Victoria and 20 kilometres south of the border with Kenya. The gold mine works an average of 8,000 tonnes of minerals a day and produced 287,188 ounces of gold in 2015. The gold

WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY

May 1, 2017

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Workers’ Memorial Day, observed each year on April 28, honors workers killed, injured, or made ill at work. Since 1992, BLS has collected data on both nonfatal work injuries and illnesses that result in days away from work, and fatal work injuries. In 2015, the occupations with the highest number of nonfatal injuries and illnesses

TOP 15 CONSIDERATIONS FOR MAINTAINING UNDERCARRIAGE HEALTH AND PRODUCTIVITY

Apr 28, 2017

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The undercarriage of a machine represents a significant portion of a piece of equipment’s purchase price. Proper maintenance and operation practices are critical for protecting your equipment investment. Undercarriage maintenance is critical to the overall productivity of a machine. It is the mechanism that gives tracked machines much of their power and stability. It also

Deere Adds 8-Year / 20K Hour Warranty on 944K Electric-Drive Components

Apr 27, 2017

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John Deere is now offering a 96-month / 20,000-hour power electronic components warranty on the Deere 944K hybrid wheel loader. The warranty is retroactive to existing machines in the field and provided on new 944K loaders through October 31, 2018. The warranty includes a 96-month (eight-year) or 20,000-hour (whichever comes first) non-prorated assurance on wheel

VERMEER SILVER SERIES DRILL RODS COMPOSED OF S135 COMMON GRADE STEEL

Apr 27, 2017

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Vermeer’s Silver Series drill rod is composed of S135 common grade steel and is threaded in the same facility as the company’s Firestick drill rod with the same column wall thickness. The Silver Series drill rod is available in four sizes: 1.66-inch, 1.9-inch, 2.06-inch, and 2.375-inch, for use on the D7x11 through the D24x40

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