Caterpillar Inc said that all its equipment plants were running normally despite the shutdown late Tuesday of a company-owned facility that supplies a key component for its earth-moving machines.
“There’s been no production stoppage” outside Oxford, company spokesman Jim Dugan told Reuters.
Late Wednesday, Caterpillar Inc said that a plant in Oxford, Mississippi that makes hydraulic hose […]

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., the world’s biggest maker of giant excavators, dropped on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after Nomura Securities Co. and CLSA Asia- Pacific Markets cut their ratings on the stock.
Hitachi Construction Machinery fell 8.4 percent to 2,785 yen as of 9:27 a.m. in Tokyo, the biggest decline in the past four trading sessions. […]

Japan’s Hitachi Ltd. aims to generate 50 pct or more of its sales from overseas through bolstering its social infrastructure operations including power generation and railway, President Kazuo Furukawa said Tuesday.
The Japanese company will push power generation equipment, railway systems and construction machinery in Europe, Furukawa said at a press conference here.
Hitachi plans to […]

The price index of first-hand domestic sales fell by 0.3 per cent from December 2007 to January 2008. This was mainly due to lower prices of fuels, lubricants and related materials, as well lower prices of machinery and transport equipment.
The fall in prices of machinery and transport equipment was 0.4 per cent from last month. […]

Deere & Co. said its first-quarter profit rose 55 percent, beating Wall Street’s expectations as lofty crop prices stoked global demand for its farm equipment.
Sales for the world’s largest maufacturer of agricultural machinery climbed 18 percent in the November-January period. Deere said its sales outside North America jumped 37 percent, quadruple the growth in the […]

Japan’s shipments of construction machinery may rise 9 percent to a third straight annual record next fiscal year as building and mining booms in Asia drive demand for earthmovers built by Komatsu Ltd. and its rivals.
Shipments of excavators, tractors, cranes and other construction machinery may climb to 2.6 trillion yen ($24 billion) in the year […]

Lane Construction is using full depth reconstruction and an unbonded overlay to create a new concrete surface along 6.5 miles of I-77 in Yadkin County, North Carolina.
Cheshire, Connecticut-based Lane Construction is nearly one year into a project in Yadkin County, North Carolina, that will provide a new unbonded concrete overlay surface, wider shoulders and a […]

Genie Industries, Inc. has acquired the assets of Phoenix Equipment Company, a Waco, Texas, company specializing in the refurbishment of aerial work platform equipment.”As the market has grown, so has the need for refurbishment. With this acquisition, Genie Industries will now have a dedicated facility to refurbish and remanufacture products to customer specifications,” said Tim […]

H&E Equipment Services, Inc. (H&E) announced that it has been appointed as the authorized Takeuchi dealer for the entire state of Oklahoma and portions of Virginia, the Carolinas and Florida, effective December 19, 2007. As a full-service dealership, H&E will provide sales, rentals, service, parts, warranty service, and training.
H&E has 11 locations within this service […]

Pick up a basketball and drop it in a garbage can.Sounds easy, right?
But maybe not when your hand is a 2-foot-wide steel claw, your arm is a 20-foot-long hydraulic boom and the joystick controls of your 8-ton rig respond to an inch of extra pressure with a 5-foot lurch.
Perhaps that’s why more than 100 people […]