ARTBA Forecasts 4 Percent Growth in ’04 Highway Construction Market

Spurred by continued increases in federal funding and renewed economic growth, the U.S. highway construction market should grow 4.2 percent in 2004, the chief economist of the Washington D.C.-based American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) said.

William Buechner, ARTBA vice president of economics and research, said the expected congressional approval of $33.6 billion in federal highway investment for fiscal year 2004 –– an increase of $2 billion over fiscal year 2003 levels –– will drive the market growth. Click for more...

ARTBA Forecasts 4 Percent Growth in ’04 Highway Construction Market

GLF Raises Wilmington Bypass Over Protected Wetlands

Travelers passing through Wilmington, NC, will soon have an alternative route –– the new U.S. 17 bypass.

Divided into four projects, construction of the new bypass will route traffic eastbound on I-40 and southbound on U.S. 17 around Wilmington, improving access to the State Port at Wilmington and Sunny Point Military Ocean Terminal. Click for more...

GLF Raises Wilmington Bypass Over Protected Wetlands

Engine Distributors, CK Power Become Flint Power Systems

Engine Distributors Inc., based in Albany, GA, acquired C K Power of Florida from its parent company, C K Power in St. Louis. With this acquisition, Engine Distributors Inc. and C K Power of Florida merged into a new company, Flint Power Systems.

Flint Power Systems is a full-service power systems dealer, providing sales, parts and service for engines, power units, generator sets and pumps. The company is a factory-authorized distributor of John Deere, Isuzu, Mitsubishi and Hatz. Click for more...

Engine Distributors, CK Power Become Flint Power Systems

Gregory Poole Celebrates Fluid Lab’s One-Millionth Sample

Gregory Poole, a Raleigh, NC-based Caterpillar equipment dealer, celebrated receiving its one-millionth fluid sample on Dec. 1, an achievement illustrating the tremendous growth the company’s fluid analysis lab has experienced over the past six years.

“It took 22 years to reach half a million samples,” said Bill Wolf, Gregory Poole’s S•O•S fluid analysis lab manager, “but it only took six years to get the second half million.” Click for more...

Gregory Poole Celebrates Fluid Lab’s One-Millionth Sample

Athletic Services Rounds Third On Phillies’ Clearwater Ballpark Project

When Ray Kinsella heard the words “If you build it, they will come,” the Iowa farmer plowed through his corn to construct a baseball field.

The 1989 movie Field of Dreamsand Kinsella, played by Kevin Costner, left to the imagination what Athletic Services is making a reality at the new spring training facility of the Philadelphia Phillies in Clearwater, FL. The company is transforming 12,000 tons (10,900 t) of rock, stone, clay, greens mix, sand and sod into a modern playing field that will begin hosting training games this upcoming spring.Click for more...

Athletic Services Rounds Third On Phillies’ Clearwater Ballpark Project