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“The Nation’s Best Read Construction Newspaper… Founded in 1957.” Your Ohio Connection: Ed Bryden, Strongsville, OH • 1-800-810-7640

Atlas Copco Opens ‘First of Its Kind’ Configuration Center Representatives of Atlas Copco Construction Equipment gathered for a ribbon cutting at its new configuration center in Independence, Ohio. The first of its kind, 150-ft.-long facility, was built across from the current Atlas Copco service center. Staff in the 9,000-sq.-ft. configuration center will assemble hydraulic attachments and WEDA submersible pumps. The “Placing the existing service center will configuration center continue to refurbish and provide other technical at the Independence services. location makes Rocky Stacy, Ohio operations manager of shipping sense.” Atlas Copco Construction Rocky Stacy Equipment, said that sepaAtlas Copco Construction rating configuration from Equipment service and repair means that “employees, practices, and logistics services can be assigned to configuration and to servicing, resulting in maximum efficiency for both. “Placing the configuration center at the Independence location makes shipping sense,” Stacy added. “One third of the U.S. makes up more than 59 percent of the market’s ‘weight footprint’ of hydraulic attachment customers, basically from Illinois to the Atlantic coast.” The densest distribution area includes Michigan, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Corporate dignitaries attending the event included Henk Brouwer, global division president of Atlas Copco’s Construction Tools division from Essen, Germany. (L-R): Rocky Stacy, Ohio operations manager; Matt Cadnum, vice president of Aftermarket; Kevin Loomis, The configuration center went into operation on May 1. Construction Tools division business line manager; Henk Brouwer, global division president of Atlas Copco’s (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s Web site at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)

Construction Tools division from Essen, Germany; Chad Kennedy, inventory logistics manager; Eric Sparby, president and general manager of Atlas Copco Construction Equipment, U.S.

Jobs, Transportation Plan to Include More Than 40 Projects Gov. John R. Kasich recently announced a jobs and transportation plan that includes more than 40 major road construction projects across the state that the Ohio Department of Transportation plans to build over the next six years. These projects will

improve motorist safety, reduce congestion on highways, add capacity and improve the state’s economy. All told, ODOT plans to spend nearly $3 billion on these projects. It is estimated that for every billion dollars spent on transportation infrastructure,

30,000 jobs are created. The Ohio General Assembly’s passage of the state’s $7.6 billion two-year Transportation Budget, which Gov. Kasich signed into law in April, allows the newly renamed Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission to

seek an estimated $1.5 billion in bonds backed by future revenues to finance additional transportation projects. The bill said the projects must have a “nexus” with the turnpike and must be within 75 mi. (120.7 km) of the turnpike. Projects considered for turnpike

funding must be approved by ODOT’s Transportation Review Advisory Council, or TRAC. The TRAC approves all major new capacity projects more than $12 million. Following TRAC approval, the projects must be see JOBS page 7