Atlas Copco Opens South Carolina Facility

Atlas Copco celebrated the grand opening of its new production facility in Rock Hill, S.C., with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 17. The company built the $25 million facility to enhance its support for the North American construction market. The 197,000-sq.-ft., LEED-certified plant serves as the production and assembly facility for Atlas Copco’s North American Construction Technique division. Generators and portable…

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New Home Sales Slip in April After Strong Start to Year

Sales of newly built, single-family homes in April dropped for the first time in 2017, falling 11.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 569,000 units, according to newly released data by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Bureau. Sales numbers for the first three months of the year were all upwardly revised,…

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