Gary Oradat, P.E., is the new director of water utilities at Halff Associates Inc. With nearly 40 years of experience in the public sector, his areas of expertise span: Water resource planning and implementation Wastewater collection system analysis…
Tripp Williams joined the Underground Construction sales team in late July. He replaces Gary Lindenberger and Doug Fix in the southcentral and southeast U.S. territories, respectively. Williams is a native of Virginia and a graduate…
Sandvik, a high-tech and global engineering group, acquired Inrock, a privately-owned supplier of rock drilling tools and services for horizontal directional drilling (HDD) in North America. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, Sandvik GroupSandvik offers products and…
Avanti International appointed Britt N. Babcock, P.E. as president, with an agenda for exactly what customer segments expect from the company: speed-to-market with new innovations. Engineers desire new specifications based on in-situ conditions, while municipalities…
Tim Dunphy was named marketing director of Underground Technologies, managing new product development, partner relations and new business opportunities for RIDGID’s line of diagnostics, inspection, locating and drain cleaning products. Dunphy is an accomplished marketing…
Marking 45 years of guided boring, microtunneling, pipe jacking and tunneling equipment and solutions for installing a variety of underground infrastructure, Akkerman is hosting Akktoberfest, Sept. 18-20, at its Brownsdale, Minn, headquarters. In the tradition…
Thirty years after starting assembly of its wheel loaders in a Newnan, Ga., factory, Hitachi unveiled its latest facility expansion – a new office building next door to that plant, into which corporate headquarters will…
A ceremony at PipeLine Machinery International’s (PLM) Victoria, Texas, Caterpillar Hydraulic Excavator Facility commemorated assembly of its 10,000th machine and delivery of the new 336F to Michels Corporation, the Brownsville, Wis., infrastructure and utility contractor.…
Haslet, Texas, selected Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam Inc. (LAN) to design a new sewer interceptor. The approximately 1-mile sewer line will serve LeTara, a growing 400-acre master planned community, including three new schools, under development.…
John Deere and Hitachi Construction Machinery are celebrating 30 years of their 50/50 joint venture, the Deere-Hitachi Construction Machinery Corporation. Utilizing united manufacturing facilities and integrated marketing and parts distribution, Deere-Hitachi produces high-value products backed…