Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers - Tue June 07, 2022
$60+ Million of Equipment Sold in Ritchie Bros. Fort Worth Auction
Ritchie Bros. conducted its second Fort Worth, Texas, auction of the year in May, selling more than $60 million of equipment and trucks for 700-plus consignors. The three-day online auction saw gross transaction value grow approximately 9 percent year over year....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed June 01, 2022
McCarthy's Expansion of Port Houston Will Help Supply Chain Woes
Supply chain issues have been in the news these last two years like never before. Pictures of giant container ships getting stuck in the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, the Chesapeake Bay and elsewhere have appeared in the media....
Kirby-Smith Machinery - Tue May 17, 2022
Firm Turns West Texas Sand Into Quality Fracking Products
High-quality sand is one of the main components necessary for the hydraulic fracturing process. Until relatively recently, oil and gas companies in west Texas imported the material from as far away as Wisconsin, which came with a sizable price tag....
Waterworld. com - Tue May 17, 2022
Texas Water Development Board Approves $28M for Improvements
The Texas Water Development Board has approved financial assistance totaling $28.6 million for water, wastewater and flood projectsThe funds come through a mixture of grants and loans, and will go toward the following projects:Socorro: $10M for Drainage Improvement Project:The city is proposing new, strategically placed drainage culverts, the concrete lining of the Sparks Arroyo drainage channel, the construction of the proposed Stockyard Detention Basin and the expansion of the Onion Field Retention Basin....
CEG - Tue May 17, 2022
Closner Equipment Expands to Houston, Adds New Line
Closner Equipment has broken ground on a new facility northeast of Houston that will give the growing distributor locations in all four of Texas' largest metro areas. At the same time, the San Antonio-based dealer has announced it is taking on yet another equipment line —Stewart-Amos truck sweepers — according to the company's Chief Operating Officer J.B....
CEG - Tue May 17, 2022
Safety, Precision Spur Superior Pipeline Success
Superior Pipeline Services (SPS) has been a successful contractor in Fort Worth and the surrounding area for more than 20 years, and the company is growing because of its willingness and ability to adapt....
MP Materials - Wed May 04, 2022
Hillwood Construction Services to Build Part of $700M Investment
MP Materials Corp. recently celebrated the start of construction at its first rare earth metal, alloy and magnet manufacturing facility, located in Fort Worth, Texas, with a groundbreaking ceremony featuring many local officials....
ASCO - Mon April 25, 2022
ASCO Celebrates Grand Opening of Little Elm Location
ASCO Equipment Company, a construction, agriculture and material handling equipment provider, celebrated the grand opening and ribbon cutting of its new Little Elm facility at 27500 E University Dr., Aubrey, TX 76227 on April 20....
Joe Jancsurak – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Wed April 20, 2022
Demolition Challenges Call for Deep Dives From Crews
A ginormous concrete dock, the main component of a $57.3 million federally funded project, will soon become a part of the historic Port of Beaumont's Main Terminal, the nation's fourth busiest commercial port, but not before the collapsed century-old dock is demolished and removed, a task that requires a "creative and collaborative approach," according to Robert Wood, project manager of McCarthy Building Companies in Houston, the project's general contractor and nation's fifth largest port and marine builder....
TxDOT - Wed April 20, 2022
R.K. Hall, TxDOT's Amarillo District Win NAPA Award
General contractor R.K. Hall and the Texas Department of Transportation's (TxDOT) Amarillo District have once again been awarded the Quality in Construction Award for two separate projects by the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA)....
