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Battlefield Equipment Rentals opens two new locations

Battlefield Equipment Rentals has announced the opening of new locations in St. Thomas and Pembroke, Ontario. The expansion brings the company’s total number of locations...

Jacon Equipment enters the North American market

Jacon Equipment’s line of shotcreting machines is now available in Canada, the United States and Mexico. The Australian-owned supplier of underground shotcreting and related equipment is...

Liebherr breaks ground for new logistics centre for the Americas

Liebherr has officially broken ground for the construction of its new state-of-the-art logistics centre in Tupelo, Mississippi. Located at the Hive Business Park, the facility...

Letter: Cancelling Fleming’s college’s technician programs was a mistake

From Larry Wilson, Founding Coordinator of Fleming College’s Heavy Equipment Technician Program In 1971, the equipment industry in Canada contacted Glen Crombie, Principal of the...

Caterpillar’s Global Operator Challenge returns

Caterpillar is once again offering heavy equipment operators from around the world to prove their skills via the Global Operator challenge. On December 9, Cat...

The Slipform paving process

Concrete paving with inset slipform pavers can build roads that last for as long as four decades Highways, arterial roads, airport runways or even railway...

In Ontario, locates are your legal lifeline

By Ontario One Call In Ontario, the excavation landscape is marked by a sobering statistic: more than 4,200 underground utility damages occur annually, translating to...

AEM elects Canadian businesswoman as Board Chair

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) has announced its 2025 officers and directors elected to the AEM board of directors. Linamar Executive Chair Linda Hasenfratz has been...

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Stratom is looking to fill the gap in autonomous operations

As more equipment manufacturers develop autonomous equipment, Stratom is creating robotic equipment to serve as a bridge between unmanned technologies. Employing autonomous mobile robots, Stratom...