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Thompson Contractors Relies on Hitachi at NC Quarry

Thompson Contractors Inc., a family-owned business since the 1940s, operates two quarries in North Carolina, which mainly produce load shot granite and stone-based material for asphalt plants. The Miller Creek Quarry, the largest of the two quarries and located in Rutherfordton, NC, has been in operation since 1965....


Hitachi Accompanies VA Contractor Through Years of Growth

Russell Jenkins, the president of General Excavation Inc., recalled the time he first met Don Powell, a Hitachi salesman of J.W. Burress. “It was in the early 1980s,” said Jenkins. “Don Powell came to one of my job sites, and I happened to be running the motorgrader....


Hitachi EX1900 Improves Productivity at Oregon Quarry Op

In quarry operations, it’s not easy to replace a piece of equipment that has provided decades of reliable service. However, when that equipment has outlived its practicality and replacing it can significantly reduce downtime and increase production, nostalgia takes a back seat to good business sense....


Joint Task Force Deploys Hitachi Iron for Operation Alaskan Road

It’s not often that a joint military training exercise can directly benefit a local community. But on Annette Island, off Alaska’s southeast coast, service personnel from every branch of the military are taking part in an ongoing, annual Joint Task Force (JTF) road-construction exercise, which will do just that....


Murphy Named as Hitachi Dealer in Four Midwestern States

Hitachi Construction and Mining Products named Murphy Tractor & Equipment Company as its dealer in four Midwestern states. Murphy Tractor & Equipment, founded in 1982, is headquartered in Wichita, KS, and has 16 locations throughout the Midwestern states of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska....


Firm Celebrates Gold With Hitachi Orange

The 750 employees of Texas Sterling Construction are celebrating the company’s golden anniversary. Its 50th is shaping up to be its best year ever, in part due to Hitachi. In 1981, Sterling Construction founders Jim and Pat Manning moved from Michigan way down south to the booming Houston metro....


Hitachi Drives Lattimore Operations in TX

In a world dominated by publicly owned ready-mix and aggregate companies, Lattimore Materials is a thriving, family-owned business. But don’t equate “family owned” with “small.”Headquartered in McKinney, TX, Lattimore is one of the top three ready-mix producers in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex....


Maltese Works in Tight Quarters With Hitachi Zaxis 135US

Approximately 300,000 residential in-ground pools are built every year. Many are installed in spacious lots with plenty of elbow room for construction. Installing pools in New York/New Jersey area, however, means excavating in an area not much larger than the pool itself....


Hitachi Makes Earth Move on MODOT Job

In Missouri, rigid-frame trucks are usually associated with rock work, not dirt work. Rain turns dirt to mud and clay, and conventional thinking says, “Use articulated trucks” if there’s any possibility of moisture....


MA’s Francesco Demolition Does It All With Hitachis

Big or small, Francesco Demolition Inc., of Duxbury, MA, does it all, said Frank Durante, company founder. “Houses, factories, or large shopping centers — there’s nothing we can’t tackle.” Durante did not start out in demolition....








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