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June 18 2011 Vol. VII • No. 13
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Sunderland Facility Expands, Construction Streamlines Operation Spending Up During April
Road Machinery Expands Sales Group in Phoenix...10
Miller Machinery Benefits From Metso HP4...11
A Cat 966H wheel loader helps in the processing of aggregate at the newly expanded Sunderland Recycling Facility.
By Erik Pisor CEG CORRESPONDENT
WC A Holds A uction in Perris, C alif. ...40
Table of Contents ............4 Crushing, Screening & Recycling Section ....11-17 Business Calendar ........26 Attachments Section27-29 Truck & Trailer Section .... ..................................31-34 Auction Section ......37-43 Advertisers Index ..........42
Considered a leader in sustainability amongst major U.S. cities, Portland, Ore., has developed cost-effect methods to recycle haul-back materials — generated from street maintenance operations — and reuse them for daily repair work conducted by the city’s
maintenance department. Portland’s haul-back material recycling program is conducted at its Sunderland Recycling Facility, where 30,000 to 50,000 cu. yds. (22,937 to 38,228 cu m) of concrete and asphalt-laden materials are processed annually, according to the Portland Bureau of Transportation. see EXPANSION page 10
Cat CFO: U.S. Economy Not Far From Liftoff BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) Caterpillar Inc. believes the American economy isn’t far from taking off again but needs a better idea of where government policy is headed in key areas such as taxes, Chief Financial Officer Edward Rapp said May 19. The company forecasts that the U.S. economy will grow by about 3 percent in 2012,
Rapp said before a speech at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington. He said growth of 3.5 percent to 4 percent should kick off demand for new heavy machinery like the company’s construction equipment. “There’s a pent-up demand waiting to happen, but it’s going to take more robust growth see ECONOMY page 30
Construction spending inched up for the second straight month in April, 0.4 percent — following downward revisions to the March spending figures — due to increases in private nonresidential and home-improvement spending, the Associated General Contractors of America reported June 1 in an analysis of new Census Bureau data. Association officials noted, however, that the gains were tempered by sluggish homebuilding and declining levels of public investment in construction. “Overall economic conditions seem better than they have been for several years, which normally leads to well-rounded construction growth,” said Ken Simonson, the association’s chief economist. “But these figures may be deceptively positive, masking weakening public sector demand and still-weak demand for residential construction.” Simonson noted that the April results were boosted by a modest half-percent rise in private nonresidential construction and a deceptively large 3.1 percent leap in private residential spending. However, the residential growth was attributable to a 7.6 percent jump in the “improvements” category, a number the Census Bureau frequently revises down in later months, as it did in March. The economist cautioned that the figures from more reliable residential categories — new single- and multi-family construction —declined by 1.0 percent and 0.1 percent, respectively. Simonson noted that private nonresidential spending also was uneven. The largest category, power construction, grew 3.2 percent, and there were increases of 4.7 percent for communication construction and 0.8 percent for private health care construction. But there were decreases of 1.3 percent in commercial construction (retail, warehouse and farm), 1.0 percent in manufacturing consee SPENDING page 10