No one could have predicted the situation we found ourselves in in 2020, with a global pandemic bringing the economy to its knees, projects delayed overnight, rapid restarts, remote management, and challenging labor dynamics.
Dennis Slater, full-time president of the US-based Association of Equipment Manufacturers, remains as secretary of the AEM after recent elections. AEM officers for 2015 are:
• Chair John Patterson, Chairman JCB USA Group and Director JCB Group, JCB Inc.
• Vice Chair Leif Magnusson, President, CLAAS of America
• Treasurer Göran Lindgren, President Sales Region Americas, Volvo Construction Equipment
• AG Chair James Walker, Vice President Case IH NAFTA, CNH Industrial
• CE Chair Michael Haberman, Pre
The world’s leading highway associations have launched International Road Maintenance Day to focus people everywhere on the protection of their local road networks. International Road Maintenance Day will take place on the first Thursday of every April, speakers said on day two of the Pavement Preservation and Recycling Summit (PPRS Nice 2018). The first event will take place on April 5, 2018. “It will be one day per year to talk about the maintenance of our roads,” said Juan Jose Potti, the president of