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February

• SEAA’s New Learning System Offers Custom Material for Training Ironworkers

  Feb. 2, 2023 - The Steel Erectors Association of America (SEAA) has launched its new Learning Management System, SteelPros Training Portal, exclusively for members.




• ALL Adds New Manitowoc MLC300 Lattice-Boom Crawler Cranes

  Feb. 1, 2023 - The All Family of Companies is beefing up its stock of Manitowoc lattice-boom crawler cranes, with a focus on the versatile 330-USt class model MLC300.




• Liebherr HS 8100.1 Crawler Crane Dredges 50,000 Cu. Yds. in Florida

  Feb. 1, 2023 - Brance Diversified Inc. (BDI) relied on its new Liebherr HS 8100.1 crawler crane to dredge the St. John’s River in Jacksonville, Florida.




• Link-Belt Recognizes Top Five Distributors of 2022

  Feb. 1, 2023 – Gary Lane, Link-Belt’s manager of North American sales, has announced the top five distributors for 2022. The achievement is based on overall performance in marketing, sales, and support of Link-Belt cranes.

   




• Trail King Awarded Sourcewell Contract

  Feb. 1, 2023 - Trail King Industries, a leading North American trailer manufacturer, has once again been awarded a national cooperative contract through Sourcewell.




• Crosby and Kito Combine to Provide Global Lifting Solutions

  Desel (left), and Kito

  Feb. 1, 2023 – The Crosby Group and Kito Corporation have combined to form Kito Crosby in order to better serve customers, team members, and their global communities.




January

• First Liebherr LRT 1100-2.1 in U.S. Speeds Assembly of Mining Truck

  Jan. 23, 2023 – The first Liebherr LRT 1100-2.1 rough-terrain crane in the U.S. to be equipped with the new counterweight upgrade recently helped assemble a huge Liebherr mining truck four days faster than scheduled at a mine in Virginia.




• Equipment Finance Industry Confidence Higher in January

  Jan. 19, 2023 – The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation (the Foundation) has released its January 2023 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry (MCI-EFI). The index rose to 48.5, up 2.6 points from 45.9 in December.




• Stellar’s New Distribution Center Has More Parts, Ships Faster

  Jan. 23, 2023 - Stellar, an employee-owned and -operated manufacturer of high-quality mechanic trucks and cranes, tire service trucks, hooklifts, roll-off cable hoists, trailers, and service truck and van accessories, has opened a new parts distribution center (PDC).




• Felling Rolls Out Hauling Solution for Wide Undercarriage Construction Equipment

   Jan. 16, 2023 - Felling Trailers Inc. has added Low Pro Heavy Duty (LP HD) models to its product line. The LP HD transports heavy wideset loads weighing up to 60,000 lbs.

   




• CraneWorks Promotes Three in Product Support Roles

  Johnston	St. John	Conway

  Jan. 16, 2022 – CraneWorks Inc., Houston, Texas, has promoted Gene Johnston to vice president of product support, Kevin St. John to national parts director, and Chris Conway to national service manager.




• Fascan Names Harkins National Rail Specialist

  Jan. 16, 2023 - Fascan International, exclusive U.S. distributor of Fassi articulating cranes, has named Tim Harkins as the company’s national railroad specialist.




• Bigfoot Construction Equipment’s New Website is Easier to Use

  Jan. 8, 2023 – Bigfoot Construction Equipment’s new www.outriggerpads.com website has been innovated to pose as a more user-friendly tool for customers.




• Burger Retirement Brings Changes at Link-Belt

  Burger

  Jan. 13, 2023 – After 40 years of service, Roy Burger, manager of government sales and international sales, retired on Dec. 31, 2022.




• Empire Crane Adds Jekko Mini Cranes to Lineup

  From left: Empire Crane service technicians Javier Rodriguez, Maxwell Macaulay, and Jason Korbys, train with JekkoUSA service manager Joe Kelly.

  Jan. 12, 2023 – Empire Crane Company is now the Jekko mini crane dealer for the northeastern United States, including New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.




• Caldwell’s New Catalogue Features Popular Below-the-Hook Products

  Jan. 11, 2023 – The Caldwell Group’s new 2023 BTH General Lifters printed catalogue gives readers details and specifications about the Rockford, Illinois, company’s most popular general below-the-hook attachments.




• Manitowoc Offers Winter Weather Maintenance Tips

  Jan. 11, 2023 – Crane manufacturer Manitowoc, which produces the Manitowoc, Grove, National, Potain, and Shuttlelift brands of lifting equipment, recently offered tips for maintaining cranes used in winter weather.




• Sarens Adds 275' Tadano Boom Booster for High-Reach Wind Work

  Jan. 10, 2023 – Sometime this month, lifting specialist Sarens will take delivery of a 275.5’ (84m) Boom Booster Kit that enhances the reach and capacity of a Tadano CC 38.650-1  lattice-boom crawler crane. See full story for photo caption.
  




• Cummins Chief Technical Officer to Retire

  Fier	Wood

  Jan. 10, 2023 – Cummins Inc. vice president and chief technical officer Jim Fier will retire at the end of March after 36 years with the company. He will be succeeded by Jonathan Wood, currently Cummins’ vice president of New Power Engineering.

   




• Wire Rope Fabricators Name Caldwell's Ferchen to Board

  Jan. 8, 2022 – The Associated Wire Rope Fabricators (AWRF) has named The Caldwell Group Inc.’s director of business development, Jeff Ferchen, to its board of directors.




• Construction Employment Up By 28,000 in December, Says ABC

  Jan. 8, 2023 - The construction industry added 28,000 jobs in December, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data released recently by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.




• Terex Utilities Promotes Cammisa to Senior Director of Services

  Jan. 7, 2023 – Terex Utilities has promoted Nick Cammisa to Senior Director of Services. Cammisa has 33 years of experience in the utility and construction-equipment industry, nearly 20 years of it with Terex Utilities.




• Aspen Upfits Mid-Sized Truck with 29’ Crane

  Jan. 4, 2023 - One of Aspen Equipment’s most challenging sign truck upfitting projects to date fitted a 6,000-lb. capacity Palfinger telescopic-boom crane and an operator catwalk onto a Chevrolet Silverado 6500 HD chassis.

   




• ABC: Construction Job Openings Were Flat in November

  Jan. 4, 2023 - The construction industry registered 388,000 job openings in November, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.




• New Flat-Top Terex Tower Crane Lifts 13 USt

  Jan. 4, 2022 – Terex’s newly announced CTT 292-12 flat-top tower crane can lift up to 13 USt, handle up to 230’ of jib, and lift 3.37-USt at the tip of that long jib.