Responding to increased demand for the company’s concrete equipment, Schwing America has hired a new vice president of operations, Arne King. “We are bringing increased efficiency to Schwing’s purchasing, quality control and manufacturing,” states Brian Hazelton, Schwing’s CEO, “with the end result being even higher standards of workmanship and customer satisfaction.” King’s background lends itself to the job, having held similar positions at Pentair, manufacturers of pumping systems and WEIR mining equipment.
Putzmeister America, Inc. has promoted Jorge Reza to Latin America after sales parts and service manager, responsible for coordinating all aspects of parts sales, service, warranty, and training for Putzmeister’s Latin American and Central American distributors and customers.
In 1999, Reza started his career at Putzmeister in the paint department, transferring to the customer support group five years later. This year, he will celebrate 15 years at the company.
Schwing America has added a marketing analyst to their staff at company headquarters in White Bear, Minnesota. Glenn Donoghue joined Schwing after a stint as an intern that led to a marketing communications position at LiuGong Machinery, a 50-year old Chinese manufacturer of construction equipment. He spent three years at the company’s headquarters in Guangxi, China, providing support for trade shows, public relations, sales training and website development.
Putzmeister America, Inc. has named Dan Martin national sales manager for small line equipment. In the role, he will manage sales of Thom-Katt® trailer pumps, BSA trailer pumps, and mortar machines throughout North America.
With more than 20 years of experience in the concrete placing business, Martin previously worked at Putzmeister for eight years in multiple sales roles, before serving as a district sales manager for MMD Equipment. In his new role, he will report to Bill Dwyer, vice president of sales and marketing for Putzmeister.
Forty years ago this past March, a group of Southern California concrete pumpers led by Bill Drake had the idea to form a national association which would represent the interests of the concrete pumping industry. They rallied together concrete pumpers, manufacturers and distributors from all areas of the country and officially met aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California on March 1, 1974.
Is there really a shortage of skilled labor for the concrete pumping industry? Go online to Google and type in “concrete pumping jobs.” In approximately 0.30 seconds my computer pulled up about 344,000 listings. The first listing states “Jobs 1 - 10 of 338 - 338 Concrete Pump Operator Jobs available;” the next listing contains the line “4210 Concrete Pump Operator jobs.”
Construction of an iron ore collection pit in Reynolds, Indiana, required both ingenuity and the right equipment to continuously pump concrete for its difficult-to-access foundation.
GREENSBORO, NC – Mack Trucks is complementing its recently updated brand expression with an intuitive new www.MackTrucks.com website. Designed for easy use by customers and optimized for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, the new site serves as a straightforward source of information about Mack’s products and services and helps customers connect with local Mack dealers.
This bulletin shares the reasons why you can't use your boom as a crane; such as: it is prohibited by all manufacturers; unseen damages can occur; there is no crane-style load chart and many more.
Hose-whipping incidents are a well-known and well-documented phenomenon within the concrete pumping industry. The purpose of this bulletin is to shed light on the one aspect of hose whipping that presents the greatest risk of occurrence - Startup.
Forty years ago this past March, a group of Southern California concrete pumpers led by Bill Drake, had the idea to form a national association that would represent the interests of the concrete pumping industry. They rallied together concrete pumpers, manufacturers and distributors from all areas of the country and officially met aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California on March 01, 1974.
Click here for discounted exhibits-only registration to World of Concrete 2015 (Feb. 3-6, 2015). World of Concrete is the industry’s only annual international event dedicated to the commercial concrete and masonry construction industries. Save money on exhibits-only registration by using code A23 when registering online. (some restrictions may apply)
