January 2009 Vol. 64 No. 1

The Global Filter, Self Cleaning Air Filter System is completely automated.

Wire & Cable, a provider of overhead and underground power distribution products, announces its offering of 34.5 kV TRXLP-insulated medium voltage cable for applications in the wind power industry.

With the new “Total GPS” and “Dual GPS” capabilities, RedLine improves workflow on the construction site.

Diamond Saddle Wheels are designed for use on excavators, where compaction results are required on both sides of the pipe.

The repowered 3.2-liter Tier III-certified Case engine on Case 21E, 121E, 221E and 321E compact wheel loaders feature a new cooling package for greater productivity.

Cat Auction Services is changing the rules in the auction industry. A partnership of Caterpillar dealers, the new business is focused on creating value and reducing risk for both buyers and sellers.

The new split winch line blower installs winch line, rope and measuring tape into 2-inch through 6-inch HDPE and PVC duct systems utilizing interchangeable adapters with one body.

The Xgard IR LPG from Crowcon is a new, low-cost IR fixed gas detector designed to detect LPG hazards before concentrations reach flammable levels.

Digital Control Inc. (DCI) has introduced a new directional drilling tracking system the company describes as more intuitive and easier to use than any other tracking product available in the horizontal directional drilling market.

The Christiana Hospital and Helen Graham Cancer Center in Newark, DE, are located off Route 4. A local stream passes under the highway through a corrugated metal pipe (CMP) near the hospital.

Duke’s certified applicators use specialized equipment to fill the affected sewer pipe with thick herbicidal foam to control root infiltration.

Use your own municipal maintenance crews and equipment with RootX to kill pipeline roots--they can treat a 400-foot mainline in 30 minutes or less.

Vaporooter pioneered the chemical root control industry over 40 years ago to extend the useful life of sewer systems while eliminating maintenance costs.

The WetVac is an industrial vacuum loader blasted, primed, and painted with PPG fleet urethane paint (wet on wet) and has a heresite epoxy phenolic coating inside.

The bucket rig is a form of the rotary drill rig.

Aries Chemical Grout Systems continue to improve grouting productivity for main and lateral grouting with new flexible 700 feet penta grout hose.

AV-200 Dura-Set combines strength and elongation with excellent chemical resistance to create a flexible rubber that is unaffected by water or UV rays.

CETCO EcoGrouter is a low cost, portable mini grouter that has been designed for pumping Volclay Granular Grout and Volclay& Grout.

Stop infiltration and inflow! CUES offers a full line of portable and truck-mounted grout rehabilitation systems.

De Neef Hot Shot Cartridges, a complete solution for quick water leak repairs.

For 25 years Logiball has designed and manufactured equipment for the trenchless rehabilitation of sewers.

Parson’s Turn-key Manhole Rehabilitation System allows contractors to load up product in the morning and not have to return to the shop until the end of the day.

Grouts are used to fill voids and create sub-grade grout barriers in earthen dams, coastal seawalls, underground vaults and tunnel boring operations.

The new Hitachi ZX120-3 utility-class excavator can be towed behind a dump truck and is available with rubber crawler pads and a backfill blade.

Significantly reduce back strain and increase employee safety when lifting and replacing manhole covers with Industrial Magnetics’ new vehicle mounted Manhole PowerArm.

The International Pipeline and Offshore Contractors Association (IPLOCA) recently hosted its annual convention in Athens, Greece with 630 attendees.

Liebherr Construction Equipment Co. and John Deere jointly announce the signing of a long-term sourcing agreement for Deere-branded 950- and 1050-size crawler dozers, and the discontinuation of the existing product supply arrangement for crawler loader machines between Liebherr-Werk Telfs GmBH and John Deere’s Construction & Forestry Division.

Metrotech’s HL 10 Acoustic Water Leak Location Device has acoustic properties that enable it to reliably locate even tiny leaks.

Members of the Michels family and their employees at Michels Pipeline Construction are celebrating 50 years in the construction business.

Miller Pipeline, one of the nation’s leading natural gas distribution and utility contractors and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vectren Corporation, acquired Ohio-based Dover Contracting Inc.

NASSCO (National Association of Sewer Service Companies) has completed a state of the art guideline for the use and handling of styrene based resins in the cured in place pipe (CIPP) rehabilitation process.

American Excelsior’s new erosion control blanket is ideal those projects where performance is needed, but the project operating budget allows only for the use of lower-end type ECBs such as straw matting.

Akkerman Inc. has released a new combination Jetting and Lubrication Pump for its Guided Boring Machine (GBM) system.

The new video on John Deere Construction & Forestry’s www.skidsteersmackdown.com offers a humorous take on classic, high-brow television but still delivers the unbridled “smack” that powered Season One of the construction industry’s most unique customer Web site.

The Pipe Line Contractors Association (PLCA) experienced a "phenomenal" year in 2008, said association President Robert Johnston (pictured).

There are long bores. And then there are really long bores.

The Pipe Line Development Company (PLIDCO), a leading designer and builder of standard and custom engineered products for pipeline repair and maintenance, recently promoted Bud Zanders to engineering manager and Reinhard Bauer to quality manager.

The city of Huntsville, AL recently completed one of the largest sanitary sewer chemical root control projects in the country.

Mears Group, Inc. recently completed a record setting bore as part of the Hampton Roads Crossing being constructed by Virginia Natural Gas (VGN).

Despite turmoil in the financial markets and oil prices that are the lowest since 2003, the U.S. natural gas industry appears likely to remain one of the stronger performers in the energy sector. Supporting this is the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) report, Additions to Capacity on the U.S. Natural Gas Pipeline Network: 2007.

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM), the North American-based international trade group representing the off-road equipment manufacturing industry, has elected its 2009 officers and directors.

Case Construction Equipment has appointed Danny McGaugh as vice president and general manager of Case Power and Equipment, a Case dealership that sells, rents and services Case construction and industrial equipment.

The city of Houston Public Works and Engineering Department Director Michael Marcotte addressed the December luncheon of the Gulf Coast Trenchless Association on Dec. 10. About 150 people were on hand to hear the presentation.

IronPlanet, a leading online auction company for used construction and agricultural equipment, has announced that its European headquarters will be established in Dublin, Ireland.

That NASSCO (National Association of Sewer Service Companies) has become an influential force in the sewer rehabilitation industry was clearly evident in 2008, said current association President Marc A. Anctil as he reviewed NASSCO accomplishments in the past 12 months.

Ditch Witch and Equipment Web Services (EWS), a division of Dominion Enterprises, have launched a used equipment website: DitchWitchUsed.com.

Victaulic, a manufacturer of mechanical pipe joining systems, has opened a Great Lakes Branch in Aurora, IL.

Worries about potential escalating demand for natural gas from electric utilities and industrials forced to switch fuels because of climate change legislation from Congress was the major factor behind the FERC natural gas infrastructure workshop on Nov. 21.

The gas infrastructure conference on Nov. 21 touched on LNG pricing and terminal construction, but never got into the political issues which are likely to bear on FERC’s approval of new LNG terminals.

FERC walked a fine line with its final rule on natural gas flow posting, reducing the number of intrastate pipelines – called major non interstates for the purpose of this rulemaking – who will have to comply while at the same time ditching a former proposal which interstates had opposed. FERC threw a bone to interstates, too.