Come with us on a journey into the world of Case’s products – and you don’t even have to go anywhere! The company’s new glasses mean you can take a virtual tour of its many products as they are put through their paces on a virtual construction site.
The traditional way of doing things is to own the construction equipment you need on site. You can buy, or you can rent. You mix and match your technology needs with what is happening on site and your costs go up and down accordingly. However, a new model is emerging: Subscriptions. Take out a flat-fee plan and let someone else make sure you can get access to the latest thinking and the cleverest technology. Pete Kennedy reports.
Swedish attachment specialist Steelwrist has launched a branch in the US in a bid to supply the North American market with its rotating excavator attachments. The move came after Steelwrist noted an increase in enquiries and interest from the US. “In the last two years we started to get a lot of requests for quotations and we saw that a lot of people surfing our website were from the US,” says CEO Stefan Stockhaus.
Everyone talks about the crumbling US infrastructure. Case Construction is doing something about it.
On Thursday, the company held a forum on “Dire States: The Drive to Revive America’s Ailing Infrastructure.” The Dire States program is a combination of efforts by Case and other partners to create a long-term solution to the nation’s infrastructure challenges.
The need for improvements is not in question. Dan McNichol, a panellist and author, travelled the US and discussed infrastructure everywhere he wen
