Mazio gears product line to demo contractors
Italy-based Mazio Attachments LLC now offers its complete line of demolition attachments from a North American operations center in Port St. Lucie, Florida. The company says the Mazio product line offers contractors primary and secondary crushers, multiprocessors, pulverizers and grapples in models designed to fit excavators from 1 ton to 130 tons of operating weight.
Mazio says its RS Series demolition crushers are ideal for crushing concrete while minimizing noise and vibrations. The Mazio RS offers customers 360 degrees of rotation, a Hardox and Weldox steel structure, reversed cylinders, a pressure relief valve and interchangeable teeth and blades.
The firm’s RV Series hydraulic rotating crusher is designed for primary and secondary demolition applications. Featuring a regenerative circuit for quick jaw opening and closing and a hydraulic rotation of 360 degrees, the RV Series has many of the same features as the RS Series.
The Mazio MC Series multiprocessor with an interchangeable jaw system also is designed for contractors who work in primary and secondary demolition, the firm says. A fitting kit allows the jaw to be changed for demolition, recycling and scrap applications.
The Mazio FPV Series of pulverizers serve well in secondary demolition and recycling applications, while the MP Series of mechanical pulverizers “provide speed and strength in pulverizing a variety of material on the demolition site” while also separating rebar from concrete, according to Mazio.
Finally, Mazio says its GR Series selection of grabbers “are built from wear-resistant steel and are designed to nimbly grab demolition materials for sorting and loading.”
Mazio Attachments LLC has engineering and manufacturing facilities in the United States, Italy and Colombia. The company says it designs its attachments to work with all makes and sizes of carriers, from hydraulic excavators, skid-steer loaders and backhoes to wheel loaders and telehandlers.
National Equipment Dealers acquires Carolina Equipment Rental, Sales & Service
National Equipment Dealers LLC (NED), Lexington, North Carolina, has finalized its acquisition of Carolina Equipment Rentals, Sales & Service, Fairview, North Carolina.
Carolina Equipment was founded in the mid-1990s, originally doing business as Rent-It of Fairview. The owners, Peter and Ellen Jensen, purchased the business in 2000. Under their ownership and management, the company supported the Fairview community with small equipment and tool rental in its early years. In 2004, the Jensens changed the name of the company to Carolina Equipment Rentals, Sales & Service to refocus the business strategy toward small- to medium-sized contractors, site development companies and municipalities.
“NED is proud to welcome the Carolina Equipment family of employees to our growing organization. This acquisition will further improve our ability to support our western North Carolina customer base,” NED Chief Operations Officer Jesse Beasley says.
Carolina Equipment started representing the Adairsville, Georgia-based Yanmar Construction Equipment line in 2002. As the company has expanded, it picked up additional compact equipment and forestry lines, including compact track loaders from ASV, Grand Rapids, Michigan, mulching attachments from Lebanon, Ohio-based Fecon and others.
“Part of our growth strategy for this region is to expand the current facilities to a new location. Our new location in Fletcher, North Carolina, is located on a 4-acre site off of Interstate 26 at 99 Underwood Road,” Beasley says. “We thank the Jensens for entrusting our organization to continue their legacy in the equipment business.”
The new NED branch in Fletcher will continue to offer Yanmar Construction Equipment, ASV and Fecon, along with additional brands currently represented by NED in North Carolina, including Hyundai Construction Equipment, Norcross, Georgia; Bell Trucks, Houston; Dynapac, with North American offices in Fort Mill, South Carolina; soil rollers from Sakai, with North American headquarters in Adairsville; Manitou, which has offices in West Bend, Wisconsin; Tana, which has offices in Lubbock, Texas; XCMG, with its North American headquarters in Las Vegas; Prinoth, with U.S. offices in Grand Junction, Colorado, and other locations; Barko, Superior, Wisconsin; and others.
Everyone who had been employed at Carolina Equipment is continuing to serve as NED employees at the new location in Fletcher, with additional NED resources and equipment brands to support the growing Asheville, North Carolina, region.
Astec Industries names new CEO
Astec Industries
Astec Industries Inc., Chattanooga, Tennessee, has announced that Barry Ruffalo stepped down as president and CEO and as a member of the board of directors, effective Jan. 6.
The board has appointed Jaco van der Merwe to serve as president and CEO and as a member of Astec’s board of directors. He joined the company in 2016 and served as president of Astec’s Infrastructure Solutions, a role he assumed in 2019.
“We are fortunate to have someone with Jaco’s experience and skill to assume the role of CEO,” says William D. Gehl, chairman of Astec’s board. “He is a proven leader and has a thorough understanding of our business. Prior to joining Astec in 2016, Jaco held various leadership positions with P&L responsibilities within the construction equipment industry. His knowledge of our materials solutions and infrastructure solutions markets and products makes Jaco uniquely suited to lead Astec to the next level of our ‘Simplify, Focus and Grow’ journey. We would also like to thank Barry Ruffalo for his efforts at Astec and wish him the best in his future endeavors.”
Joining Astec following an 18-year stint at Sweden-based Atlas Copco, where he served as president of Atlas Copco Mining and Rock Excavation in Johannesburg, Van der Merwe is a naturalized U.S. citizen with metallurgical engineering expertise and an MBA.
“It is an honor to be the CEO of Astec, and I look forward to our journey together. The hardworking people of Astec are the key to our success,” Van der Merwe says. “Our company has a 50-year history of designing, engineering, manufacturing and servicing the most innovative, efficient and dependable equipment solutions within the rock-to-road segment of the construction industry. By working together with a dedicated focus on execution, we will create value for our shareholders, customers and employees.”
Doosan renamed Develon, new CEO appointed in North America
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It’s been a busy couple of months for Suwanee, Georgia-based Doosan Infracore North America which has both a new name—Develon—and a new CEO, Chris Jeong.
The company, which is part of South Korean conglomerate HD Hyundai, says construction equipment formerly sold under the Doosan name “will now be called Develon throughout the world.”
The maker of compact excavators and heavy construction equipment says “work began to identify a new brand name to replace Doosan following the August 2021 sale of Doosan Infracore to HD Hyundai.”
The name Develon was chosen “to convey the company’s drive to develop onward to bring innovative solutions to the construction equipment industry through technological transformation and the development of exceptional equipment and services,” the company says.
Leading Develon in North America, Jeong succeeds Edward Song, the previous Doosan Infracore North America CEO, who was promoted to global sales head of Develon in Seoul, Korea.
Jeong most recently served as CEO for Doosan Infracore European Union. He joined Doosan in 2006 and has led strategic activities across various markets before he was promoted to vice president of sales and marketing for emerging markets. Jeong oversaw sales and marketing for Doosan employee teams in Asia, Oceania, the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Brazil and India.
“I’d like to acknowledge the many accomplishments of Doosan Infracore North America under the leadership of Mr. Edward Song,” he says. “Edward was instrumental in getting the new organization structured in 2018 as we recommitted the company to the heavy construction equipment industry in North America.”
Pedigree Technologies to showcase tracking tags at WasteExpo
Pedigree Technologies, Fargo, North Dakota, says it will showcase two of its newest asset tracking solutions in booth No. 4517 at WasteExpo, May 2-4, in New Orleans.
The company announced the addition of the two new tracking tags to its OneView platform last September. The PT TAG 20 and PT TAG 5 each have a signal range of up to 200 meters, or more than 650 feet. Pedigree says the PT TAG 20 and PT TAG 5 are designed for a long life of consistent operation with batteries that last 20 and five years, respectively.
When attached to outdoor tools, equipment and remote assets, such as waste management bins, these Bluetooth tags offer customers increased visibility at a fraction of the cost of GPS devices, Pedigree says. The tracking tags can connect and sync with truck and trailer GPS devices, Pedigree applications on handsets and tablets, Pedigree’s Cab-Mate electronic logging device and yard-based receivers.
Because the tags are less expensive than GPS trackers, monitoring lower-value assets is affordable, the company says. Bluetooth tags are small, weatherproof, offer long battery life and are quickly installed.
Using Bluetooth wireless signals, the tags repeatedly transmit messages with an asset’s unique identifier. These signals are picked up and displayed on the OneView platform along with other vehicle- and asset-based GPS devices that are being monitored. The OneView platform also can display common industrial tool tags from leading manufacturers, Pedigree says.
The tags are purpose-built for the harsh environments of the waste management, transportation, construction, oil and gas and heavy equipment industries.
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