Hansen Auction Group - Wed February 05, 2020
Hansen Auction Acquires Wayne Pike Auction Company
The Hansen Auction Group announced the acquisition of the Wayne Pike Auction Company and auction yard in Princeton, Minn. Hansen will continue to conduct four live auctions per year at the Princeton location and also offer many onsite and online only options for sellers in the Minnesota market....
Bryan McTaggart – BangShift News - Wed February 05, 2020
Swamp Thing: Recovery of IH TD24 Crawler Buried 45 Years in Minnesota
The following article is reprinted with permission. There's a line attributed to EOD bomb technicians. Reportedly, when asked about whether or not they were stressed out when it came time to defusing a bomb, the answer was something to the effect of "I'm not....
RDO Equipment Co. - Tue January 21, 2020
RDO Integrated Controls and PRS Partner on Topcon Intelligent Paving Suite
RDO Integrated Controls (RDOIC) and Pavement Recycling Systems (PRS) are teaming up to bring Topcon's Intelligent Paving suite of products to customers in eight states across the companies' footprints....
Loftness - Thu January 16, 2020
Loftness Becomes 100-Percent Employee Owned
As of Jan. 1, 2020, Loftness Specialized Equipment Inc. has joined an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). Through this change, the Minnesota-based manufacturer of agricultural and vegetation management equipment is now 100-percent employee owned....
Minnesota DOT - Wed January 08, 2020
Minnesota Awards $18M for TED Projects
The Minnesota Department of Transportation announced awards for five state highway projects that will help support growing industry and businesses, leverage private funding and improve the transportation system for all users....
Dick Rohland – CEG Correspondent - Wed January 08, 2020
Bridge Crews Endure Brutal Winter, High Water
In just a matter of one year when cranes began to loom over the original 35W bridge crossing over the Minnesota River, regular commuters are now seeing real progress on its replacement. Connecting the cities of Bloomington and Burnsville just south of Minneapolis, traffic crews recently switched all six lanes from the old bridge to the new, northbound bridge....
RDO Equipment Co. - Thu January 02, 2020
RDO Equipment Co. Promotes Duane Bonini to Vice President
Duane Bonini has been named vice president of RDO Equipment Co. 's Vermeer division. As of Dec. 1 Bonini is overseeing all RDO's domestic Vermeer operations, which includes California, Hawaii, Minnesota, North Dakota, Oregon and northern Nevada....
CEG - Thu December 26, 2019
Ritchie Bros. Conducts Sale in Minneapolis
More than 4,550 bidders participated online and in person at Ritchie Bros.' multi-million-dollar unreserved public equipment auction in Minneapolis, Minn., on Dec. 19, 2019. With bidders from 48 countries, approximately 54 percent of the equipment in the auction was sold to out-of-state buyers, from as far away as Mexico, Colombia and Vietnam....
Minnesota AGC - Mon December 23, 2019
Minnesota Construction Industry Releases Its 2019-2020 Assessment
Associated General Contractors of Minnesota released the 2019-2020 Minnesota Construction Industry Assessment results. This annual survey solicits the input of contractor, material supplier, architect and engineering firms in Minnesota regarding current and future trajectories of the commercial construction market....
MAPA, CEG - Mon December 23, 2019
MAPA, MAAPT Team Up for Annual Asphalt Conference
This year's Annual Asphalt Conference surpassed expectations with more than 450 attendees throughout the event, which was held Dec. 4 to 5 at the Marriott Northwest in Brooklyn Park, Minn. For the first time ever, the conference was a combined event of the Minnesota Asphalt Pavement Association (MAPA) and the Minnesota Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists (MAAPT) conferences....
