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Equipment Corporation of America Hires Gordian Ulrich as Engineering Sales Manager

Equipment Corporation of America (ECA) has hired Gordian Ulrich as engineering sales manager. He will be responsible for BAUER technical applications and advancement of its available technology in the Eastern United States and Canada.

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Aki Sand Appointed Junttan’s New Manager of Customer Services

Aki Sand, M.Sc., BBA has been appointed Junttan's new manager of customer services. Sand will begin his post April 20, 2015. He previously served as the director of customer service process management at Konecranes Plc. Sand has in-depth and extensive experience regarding the service and spare parts operations of a mechanical engineering company operating in the global market. He takes up his post as Junttan with an open mind and ready for the new challenges of further developing Junttan's customer services.

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Hercules Machinery Revolutionizing Worksites Since 1998

Hercules Machinery introduced the first side-grip in the industry 17 years ago and since then has perfected the Movax® Sonic SideGrip®, placing more than 500 units at worksites throughout the U.S. and Canada. An excavator-mounted attachment, this vibratory pile driver features an articulating side-grip with two unique side-gripping jaws and one bottom jaw that deliver unmatched dexterity when handling, driving or extracting nearly any style of piling.

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Cold Front

Ground freezing technology builds in unshakeable stability By Heather Hudson Question: What ingenious construction technique has been around since the 1800s but is reserved for only the deepest, darkest jobs? Answer: Ground freezing. Primarily used to provide ground support, groundwater control or structural underpinning during construction, the technology is mainly used for mine shafts. But its simple, virtually fail-proof design has made it a more popular option for civil projects in recent years. “Ground freezing is still used a lot in mining, but we're seeing it used for civil work like water tunnels,” said Joe Sopko, director of ground freezing at Moretrench, a nationally renowned geotechnical contractor based in Rockaway, N.J.

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Tougher Than Bedrock

GeoRocFor celebrates 30 years of drilling and new success in its XS overburden systems By Sarah B. Hood If you ask the folks at GeoRocFor Inc. how business is doing, they like to say they're “getting through the toughest conditions.” That's not because business is bad - quite the contrary: the Sherbrooke, Que.-based company is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2015 as a leading manufacturer of drilling tools and an industry leader in overburden casing systems. In the early 1980s, company founder and current president Roger Charland was working as a sales representative for an equipment distributor in Montreal, handling heavy drilling machinery, but not

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Augering Upward

When you have to get below ground, Jeffrey Machine is tops in tools By Kelly Gray When Tervita's Calgary office needed to ramp up their capability on a recent deep foundation job, they turned to Jeffrey Machine for expertise that made a difference. Based in Birmingham, Ala., Jeffrey Machine has become a world leader in drilling tools by working closely with customers such as Tervita, a major North American environmental, energy and construction service company. In this case, they were able to create a 6.1-meter belling tool that was double the diameter of anything the contractor had used in the past. It enabled Tervita to successfully execute the construction of the abnormally large bell pile efficiently and safely.

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On the Waterfront

As part of the Halifax Shipyard modernization program, Irving Equipment is rebuilding the Pier 6 Wharf, where Canada's next generation of warships and arctic patrol vessels are slated to be built

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Problem-Solving People

Crux Subsurface, Inc. takes an active role in innovation

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Towering Above

Liebherr's various divisions breaking ground all over the world

Written by Jill Harris, Piling Canada
June 2015 Read more
Projects

Rock Solid

Crews handle variety of tough conditions on remote power line project

Written by Kevin Sharp, Don Henry and John Wilson
June 2015 Read more
Business

In Canada for 15 Years

A light year's worth of advancements

Written by Vincent Jue and Stephen Wilson
June 2015 Read more
Business

The TIP is Tops

Faster results, complete coverage, ease of testing and information on cage alignment are just some of the advantages of the new Thermal Integrity Profiler

Industry News

It’s Time to Act! Preventing Exposure to Carcinogens in the Workplace

IRSST published a quick and easy guide to cancer prevention in the workplace in October.

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Canada’s Jobs Minister: Canada Job Grant is the First Step in Addressing Canada’s Skills Mismatch

Jason Kenney spoke at 2013 Skills and Post-Secondary Education Summit hosted by Conference Board of Canada.

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CenturyVallen Now Offering North America’s First “Green” Hard Hat

V-Gard® GREEN hard hat made from sugarcane reduces environmental impact CenturyVallen, a national supplier of safety and industrial MRO products and services, is excited to announce that it is now selling the world's first “green” protective hard hat manufactured from sugarcane.

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Inventors from Pile Dynamics and the University of South Florida Receive International NOVA Award for Thermal integrity Profiler (TIP)

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Selix Equipment Inc. Commits to Improved Customer Service in Ontario

Selix Equipment Inc., the Sandvik Rock Drill dealer for Ontario and the distributor for Mc Drill Technology, makers of multipurpose construction drills and large piling drill rigs, would like to announce that John Cantin has joined the Selix team as territory sales manager for central, southern and south-western Ontario.

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Junttan’s First Purpose-Built Piling Rig PM20 Reaches 30-Year Anniversary

The excavator-based piling rig was and still is a compromise in many ways, but it was rather efficient compared to standards at the time.

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Women Building Futures and TFL Industrial Join Forces in Innovative New Welding Program

WBF, Alberta's premier organization for pre-trades training for women, is pleased to announce a new partnership with TFL Industrial.

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