Member News Archive

LiuGong North America, a wholly owned subsidiary of LiuGong Machinery based in Liuzhou, China, and a global leader in the manufacturing of heavy construction equipment, has announced Steven Smith as its new Regional Director, Mexico. Based in Houston, Texas, Smith will work closely with the LiuGong NA dealer network in Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, reporting directly to Mani Iyer, President.

Program will help address service technician labor shortage across the U.S.

Manitowoc is launching a new apprenticeship program to help certify welders in Pennsylvania. This new program follows recent approval from the state of Pennsylvania Department of Labor. The company expects to have the program up and running in August of this year. The move reflects the company’s commitment to further building the U.S. skilled workforce.

McClung-Logan Equipment Company, Inc., a leading heavy construction equipment dealer in the Mid-Atlantic region, announced that it has acquired Virginia-based White Oak Equipment, Inc. The purchase will position McClung-Logan to better serve their growing customer base in Virginia with additional territory coverage, expanded product lines and compact equipment expertise.

At the Ring Power Board of Directors meeting April 16, Chris Zeras was named Senior Vice President, New Sales - Heavy Equipment Division and elected to the Ring Power Board of Directors.

MBW, Inc. is proud to announce and welcome Christy Matuszewki as the Engineer Manager. Christy comes to MBW with 20 plus years of engineering and management experience. Christy holds a BS from Marquette University as well as BA in Mathematics and Business & Management and an MBA from Alverno College.

Dealer Information Systems (DIS) Corp., a leading agriculture, lift truck, construction and truck refrigeration dealership software vendor in North America, is pleased to announce that several prolific equipment dealerships and long-time DIS software users have found success with its time-tested Hosting Service.

Felling Trailers will be hosting its seventh annual Trailer for a Cause online auction of an FT-3 Utility trailer to benefit a nonprofit organization.

Pettibone, long-time manufacturer of the renowned Speed Swing rail maintenance crane, has announced a partnership with Mecalac to provide sales and service support in North America for the Mecalac 8MCR Rail-Road, a compact crawler excavator that is purpose built with factory-installed hi-rails for railway maintenance and service work.

New dealership agreement expands availability of SANY port and material handling products

GT Mid Atlantic is excited to announce that three locations in New Jersey now carry Liebherr construction equipment. Customers are able to purchase Liebherr crawler tractors, crawler dozers, excavators, wheel loaders, and mobile material handlers at GTMA branches in Freehold, Totowa, and Vineland. Liebherr’s product line covers a wide variety of machines specifically designed for Excavation, Material Handling, Scrap, Demolition, Heavy Highway Construction, Utility work and more.

Bobcat of Midland-Odessa hosted an open house event for the community to celebrate the grand opening of its new facility in Midland, Texas on Friday, May 3.

Vermeer Texas-Louisiana and Bobcat of Waco celebrated the grand re-opening of their new facility in Waco, Texas on Friday, April 12.

Ray Kemppainen has been promoted to Vice President at ECA Canada Company, a leading distributor of specialty foundation equipment in Eastern Canada. He had previously served as Branch Manager since September 2009.

Dear Chairman DeFazio and Ranking Member Graves: On behalf of Associated Equipment Distributors (AED) and equipment dealers throughout the country, thank you for the opportunity to provide input to the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee related to infrastructure legislation under its jurisdiction.

Masaaki Hirose, President of Hitachi Construction Machinery Loaders America Inc., (HCMA) has announced his retirement from his current position, appointing Vice President of Operations Al Quinn to succeed him in day-to-day management of the company. ​

Southeastern Equipment Co, Inc. now offers Mauldin Paving Products at their Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, and Evansville locations in Indiana. Mauldin’s products cover the complete road building process – grading with motor graders, tacking with asphalt distributors, paving with pavers, and compaction with rollers.

John Deere will be exhibiting a selection of its construction equipment – including motor graders that will be sold via the Wirtgen Group's German sales and service companies and via the French sales and service company Wirtgen France SAS – at bauma from April 8-14, 2019.

Vermeer enhances its professional tree care equipment product line with the introduction of the SC70TX stump cutter. Equipped with a 67 hp (50 kW) Cat turbocharged, Tier 4 Final/Stage IIIB diesel engine, the SC70TX stump cutter delivers power to the cutter wheel and can travel up to 1560 rpm.

KINSHOFER, a leading global manufacturer of high-quality excavator and loader crane attachments, is expanding its product line to include hydraulic breaker excavator attachments following the acquisition of Hammer SRL, an Italy-based manufacturer of demolition, excavation, recycling and material handling attachments. KINSHOFER chose the company because of its reputation for quality and more than 30 years of experience in the market. The new line includes 22 breakers for carriers from .5 ton to 200 tons and joins an already expansive line of KINSHOFER tools.