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โThe Nationโs Best Read Construction Newspaperโฆ Founded 1957.โ October 20, 2012 โข Vol. VIII โข No. 21 โข 470 Maryland Drive โข Ft. Washington, PA 19034 โข 215/885-2900 โข Toll Free 800-523-2200 โข Fax 215/885-2910 โข www.constructionequipmentguide.com
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John Deere, Hitachi Adds Jobs in N.C. By Emery P. Dalesio
CraneFest Held at Link-Belt HQ in Lexington, K y. ...10
AP BUSINESS WRITER
A huge project under construction in Seattle, Wash., involves replacing a viaduct with a bored tunnel underneath the city. In fact, the Alaskan Way Viaduct Program includes more than 20 projects that will work together to replace the viaduct and reshape the State Route 99 corridor. According to KaDeena Yerkan, manager of communications and public involvement of the Viaduct Program, construction on the first project began in 2008, and involved crews stabilizing four viaduct columns that had settled following the 2001 Nisqually Earthquake. โSince then, more than a dozen projects have been completed, with several more in progress or set
KERNERSVILLE, N.C. (AP) A partnership between two behemoth builders of excavating machinery said Oct. 5 it plans to add 340 jobs at a Forsyth County plant in return for incentives of more than $5 million. Deere-Hitachi Construction Machinery Corp. said it will expand its Kernersville plant that now employs more than 700. The plant is a part of a 24year partnership between Tokyo-based Hitachi Construction Machinery and Moline, Ill.-based Deere & Co. to manufacture both Hitachi and Deere brand excavators. The expansion will allow DeereHitachi to increase production of excavators for the mining and construction industries, the company said. State and local governments have promised Deere-Hitachi tax breaks and other incentives worth more than $5 million if the company adds the jobs within four years and sustains them for nine years. The jobs will pay an average of about $42,102 plus benefits, $486 less
see TUNNEL page 14
see JOBS page 48
Demolition machines work last November 2011, making the last 1,100 ft. (335 m) of the south end of the viaduct disappear.
IROC K R DS-20 Crusher Impresses Ramirez...15
Tunnel Vision: Vital Viaduct Centerpiece Surges Ahead By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT
Inter state Trailers Celebrates 30 Years...29
Table of Contents ................4 Attachment Section ....11-13 Recycling Section ........15-25 Truck & Trailer Section ........ ......................................28-31 Business Calendar ............31 Auction Section ..........42-51 Advertisers Index ..............50
Key Construction Material Prices Increase The cost of key construction materials increased in August and year-to-year, resuming a trend that has forced contractors to pay more for materials even as competitive pressures restrain prices for finished projects, according to an analysis of federal figures released today by the Associated General Contractors of America.
โAfter years of depressed construction activity, the last thing contractors need is to see materials price increases further erode their already slim margins,โ said Stephen E. Sandherr, the associationโs chief executive officer. โThis isnโt the kind of economic recovery most contractors spent the past few years praying for.โ
The producer price index for inputs to construction โ covering materials that go into every type of project, plus items consumed by contractors such as diesel fuel โ increased 0.9 percent in August and 1.0 percent from a year earlier, Sandherr noted. The price increases resume a longer-term trend that is see MATERIALS page 31