Mack Trucks today announced that effective October 1, 2020, Gunnar Brunius has been appointed vice president and general manager of Mack’s Lehigh Valley Operations. The facility, which is located in Lower Macungie Township, Pennsylvania, produces all heavy-duty Mack® truck models built for North American and export markets.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Schwing America has made changes to parts and service departments to better serve the needs of the customer. Some call center employees are working from home with complete access to customer files and parts inventory to quickly provide information and support.
Phone calls are routed as usual, including to the phones of the home-based employees.. In-house call center employees have spread out their work areas to enforce social distancing guidelines. The Schwing call center remains open from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. central time.
Liebherr USA, Co. marked a milestone on April 6, 2020—the company formally moved into a newly expanded campus in Newport News, Virginia. The facilities house employees who work in administration, finance, human resources, sales, information technology, marketing, product support and distribution for nine different product units under the Liebherr USA, Co. umbrella.
Beton America is pleased to announce the appointment of Scott Savage, a concrete pumping industry veteran, as the new East Coast regional sales manager. Scott has been in the industry since the 1990s as an owner, operator and past ACPA Board Member.
Putzmeister America, Inc. facilities, o. ice and factory continue operations to service industry needs. In response to the health crisis, our team here has come together in an unprecedented way with continued focus on the collective success of our business and our customers. Specifically, our production, warehouse and service teams have remained committed to ensuring machines are produced and customers’ parts needs are fulfilled daily.
Through our efforts with the North American Concrete Alliance (NACA), the ACPA advocates for legislation that favorably affects the concrete and concrete pumping industry. NACA is a coalition of 12 concrete-related trade associations dedicated to addressing industry-wide priorities in the areas of research, education and government affairs.
While the country continues to be consumed by the historic crises facing our nation—the coronavirus pandemic public health threat, the economic downturn created by the pandemic’s mitigation measures and the nationwide protests calling for racial equality—Washington works on each of these issues. Congress is expected to pass more COVID legislation this month, and the administration continues to implement the trillions of dollars of programmatic funding Congress passed in March and April. Of great interest to the ACPA is recent activity in both the House and Senate on infrastructure programs. We’ll touch on the pandemic economic issues and the legislative movement on infrastructure.
Always looking to improve safety, ACPA member company Conco Pumping purchased one of the first ACPA wireless boom simulators in October 2019. The unit was sent to the company’s Southern California operation so general manager Doug Marquis could test it and become familiar with it.
