AEM/AED Forum Keynote to Address Disruptive Innovation

The heavy equipment industry is not immune to disruptive innovation. However, equipment manufacturers and distributors can recognize and leverage disruptive innovations and create new value to stay in business and prosper. Disruption expert Luke Williams will tell them how as keynote speaker of the AEM/AED Forum: Drivers of the Industry, Sept. 12-14 in Chicago. Williams, founder of W.R. Berkley Innovation Labs and…

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This Week’s Market Buzz

• Demand for raw frac sand is forecast to increase more than 4 percent per year to nearly 100 billion lb. in 2021, according to “Proppants Market in North America,” a new study from The Freedonia Group, a Cleveland-based industry research firm. In value terms, raw frac sand is expected to grow 10 percent per year to more than $3…

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Select Sands Doubles Revenue in Second Quarter

Select Sands Corp announced financial and operational results for the second quarter of 2017. Revenue more than doubled to $3.1 million CAD from $1.5 million in the first quarter 2017. Second quarter revenue would have been greater, except for lost sales volumes of 8,000 to 12,000 tons due to a pause in shipping during the May flood in Arkansas, and…

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