Bridge Collapse a Dire Warning

April 2, 2019 – A 2018 report from TRIP indicated that roads and bridges that are deteriorated, congested or lack some desirable safety features cost Tennessee motorists a total of $6 billion statewide annually. Now they almost cost a motorist his life. One person was injured after a concrete railing section fell from a bridge in Chattanooga, Tenn., this week shutting down two…

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Alta Equipment Expands into New England

Alta Equipment Co. entered into an agreement to purchase Northland Industrial Truck Co., Inc. (NITCO). The acquisition will expand Alta’s business into the New England market, adding full service materials handling sales operations in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Maine.  NITCO, and its construction equipment group Northland JCB, will continue to operate as wholly owned subsidiaries of Alta, with no…

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Van Tongeren GIC a Hit for Luck Stone

Score one for water conservation. Luck Stone recently upgraded the classification system at its Goose Creek Plant in Leesburg, Va., to a breakthrough dry process system that eliminates the need for water. Called a Gravitational Inertial Classifier (GIC), this system uses only ambient air and gravity to remove fine particles under 75 µm from clean, crushed stone, saving upwards of…

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Superior Hires Octavio

Superior Industries Inc. hired industry veteran Cary Octavio as its new territory sales manager for conveyor components in the Northeast United States. Octavio comes to Superior after almost 30 years of sales and service in bulk material handling markets. “Cary likes to get his hands dirty and comes to Superior with an incredible amount of technical conveying experience,” said Mike…

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