Jeff Griffin | Senior Editor It’s been two months since The Toro Company announced it had reached an agreement to acquire The Charles Machine Works (CMW), best known as the parent company of Ditch Witch. The news came as a surprise to much of the underground construction industry and to CMW empl..
Strong revenue and profitability marked the first quarter of 2019 for the utility and communications industry, particularly among the publicly traded members of the Utility & Communications Construction Index (UCCI).
Jeff Awalt | Executive Editor The 2019 Most Valuable Professional winner Lynn Osborn (center) accepts his award from co-sponsors Robert Carpenter (left), of Underground Construction and Tim Peterie (right), UCTA. ..
As recently as 2017, the federal Department of Transportation (DOT) estimated 30,000 miles of cast-iron pipe still carried gas in the United States, with the highest percentage of these mains located in older eastern cities such as New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
Schonstedt Instrument Co. has introduced a new underground utility pipe and cable locator designed to “sweep” large areas for the presence of buried assets.
Guyot
Deere & Company named Pierre Guyot to become senior vice president for John Deere Power Systems.
Vermeer
Vermeer Southeast is now 100-percent employee-owned, through an employee stock ownership plan.
FOSA
The Fiber Optic Sensing Association elected five board members and its officer slate for 2019 at the organization’s annual meeting.
Robert Carpenter | Editor-in-Chief When an energy source is extremely economical, much-more environmentally friendly and readily available, common sense would dictate that you encourage development of that source. But sometimes common sense and reality prove to be dramatically different things. ..