AEM Supports Infrastructure Improvement Campaign
“The business community must intensify its efforts now to educate elected officials on critical transportation needs as Congress prepares to reauthorize the surface transportation program next year,” said Dennis Slater, AEM president. “Infrastructure improvement is a top priority for our member companies and our industry. We are keenly aware of the investment that is taking place in other regions of the world, and there is widespread alarm at the lack of adequate investment to modernize infrastructure here in the
Milwaukee, Wis.-based AEM is prepared to commit resources to support the FasterBetterSafer campaign. “The future economic health of our nation depends on a strong transportation network,” Slater said.
“For example, our members have voiced concern for the increasing difficulties they face in transporting replacement parts to and from manufacturing plants, as well as transporting machinery products to ports and to our customers because of deteriorating infrastructure,” he said.
AEM is the international trade group representing the off-road equipment manufacturing industry. Its members manufacture equipment, products and services used worldwide in the agriculture, construction, forestry, mining and utility sectors.
