Pit & Quarry, December 2011
THE LATEST ON EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS EQUIPMENT TECHNOLOGY AEM elects 2012 officers T he Association of Equipment Manufacturers AEM announced its newly elected 2012 officers Chair Russell Fowler president and CEO of Krone NA Inc Memphis Tenn Vice chair Stuart Levenick group president of Caterpillar Inc Peoria Ill Treasurer Brian Kober vice president corporate planning and strategy of Komatsu America Corp Rolling Meadows Ill Secretary Dennis Slater AEMs full time president Milwaukee AG sector board chair Robert Kolb vice president global business development of GEA Farm Technologies Inc Naperville Ill CE sector board chair Richard Patek president of Telsmith and vice president of Astec Aggregate Mining Group of Astec Industries Inc Mequon Wis AEMs board of directors led by the officers sets the guidelines and operating policies of AEM on behalf of members in areas including public policy equipment statistics and market information trade shows technical and product safety support global business development education training workforce development and worksite safety educational materials Historical equipment calendar now available The Historical Construction Equipment Association HCEA a non profit organization dedicated to preserving the history of the construction dredging and surface mining equipment industries announced its 2012 calendar The calendar features 12 monthly 8x10 in black and white photographs of vintage equipment in action Calendar sales are a major fundraiser for the HCEA and can be ordered from the HCEA website at www hcea net or by calling 419 352 5616 Briefs AGG1 on pace to set record for exhibit space Exhibit space sales for the 2012 AGG1 Aggregates Forum Expo have exceeded the last show with more than 26000 net sq ft reserved and are on track to set a new record according to show organizers The co located World of Asphalt Show Conference is already the largest in the shows history at more than 70000 net sq ft of exhibit space The shows will be held March 13 15 at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte N C Tecnetics breaks ground on new facility Tecnetics Industries Inc broke ground this month on the site of its new facility in White Bear Township Minn the company announced This facility doubles the manufacturing space of the current headquarters in nearby White Bear Lake Minn Tecnetics which manufactures the Tecweigh line of in motion weighing equipment is expected to move into the new facility next spring ABB and Baldor utilize single sales force for motors drives ABB and Baldor Electric Co announced a single U S sales force to sell and support the complete line of ABB and Baldor low and medium voltage industrial drives and industrial electric motors ABB and Baldor a member of the ABB group believe industrial customers will see many benefits from this transition including a single point of contact and 24 hour local sales and service Stedman appoints parts sales associate Dan Egbert was appointed as Stedmans new parts sales associate Egbert will be responsible for customer support of all crusher parts and spares Egbert has more than 19 years of experience at Stedman starting in the shipping and receiving department Compass Wire Cloth announces promotions Robert Abate was promoted to executive vice president of Compass Wire Cloth the company announced One of the company founders 30 years ago he works closely with aggregate customers The company also announced two other promotions Christopher Toppi was promoted to vice president of operations and sales while Michael McGrath Jr was named vice president of production and manufacturing Atlas Copco appoints service manager Chad French was appointed to service manager for the Atlas Copco branch in Elko Nev the company announced BTI mourns loss of international sales director Robert Bob McArthur director of international sales and a 29 year veteran of BTI Teledyne died while on business in Peru according to the companys website He was 57 McArthur was traveling to a mine site with BTIs dealer in Peru when they were involved in a fatal motor vehicle collision 8 PIT QUARRY December 2011 www pitandquarry com
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