Heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. said Monday that it will acquire certain assets of Gremada Industries Inc., which reclaims and remanufactures metal components.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
The agreement was signed on Sunday and the deal is expected to close when legal and regulatory requirements are completed, Caterpillar said.
West Fargo, N.D.-based Gremada remanufactures and reclaims metal [...]

Some 1, 200 exhibitors and over 100, 000 trade visitors are expected again at the exhibition duo HOLZ-HANDWERK and fensterbau/frontale from 2-5 April 2008. The display area in the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg is already practically fully booked months before the exhibition starts.
“Many of the exhibitors at HOLZ-HANDWERK will present their products on an appreciably larger [...]

The steep slump in housing intensified at the end of last year, pushing home construction down by the biggest amount in nearly three decades.
Analysts forecast more bad news in the months ahead with the big question remaining whether the housing slump will be severe enough to push the country into a recession.
The Commerce Department reported [...]

Dover Corporation’s De-Sta-Co announced the acquisition of Industrial Motion Control, LLC (”IMC”), which has annual revenues of approximately $50 million.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has appointed world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid as the architect of its new “Innovation Tower”. This building will be her first permanent architectural work in Hong Kong. The new Tower will be located at the northeastern tip of the university campus. Construction work will begin in 2009 and the whole [...]

A good school district, desirable homes and appealing surroundings have helped increase the value of Murrysville homes in recent years.
While the 2006-07 median sale price of Westmoreland County houses has risen by 1.6 percent over last year, Murrysville home prices are up 9 percent for the same period.
And since 2003-04, the median sale prices [...]

Axis Technologies Group, Inc. announced today that Kirchhoff Construction will join the company as an efficiency advocate in energy saving partnering. Kirchhoff, a leader in innovation, recently installed in their own facility the energy efficient lighting fixtures by Crescent/Stonco, a division of the Genlyte Group, Inc. that is equipped with the Axis Dimming/Daylight Harvesting [...]

THE construction of the P10-million three-storey Dumaguete City Health Care Building has already started.
According to City Administrator Dominador V. Dumalag Jr., the first two floors of the building will hopefully be completed by the middle of next year.
Post your comments on the explosion at the Glorietta 2 mall in Makati City.
Once completely furnished with medical [...]

Vietnam, seeking to reduce its reliance on steel imports, has started construction of the country’s largest steel plant, an official said Thursday.
Construction of the $1.6 billion plant, located at the Dung Quat Economic Zone in central Quang Ngai province, is expected to be completed in three years, said Nguyen Van Phu of the zone’s management [...]

Ryan Smith recycles. He also designs.
The Great Falls High School graduate is combining both those passions — the environment and architecture — and venturing into entrepreneurship.
Smith’s last day at L’Heureux Page Werner Architects Engineers was Friday. After 7 1/2 years with the firm, he’s decided to open his own business, RK3 Architecture.
“It’s always been a [...]

Trivers Associates said Tuesday that it was selected as the architectural firm for a new three-screen movie theater in Granite City, Ill.
The new theater will be a first-run cinema, meaning it shows mainstream movies during the initial new release period of each film.
The site of the new cinema has yet to be determined, [...]

The Kadiyev family have long been builders in Chechnya, but no one has had a job quite like that facing architect Dzhalal Kadiyev: reconstructing the entire city of Grozny from the ashes of war.
Kadiyev, a small, bird-like man sporting large spectacles, is unfazed by the task ahead of him and often draws inspiration from [...]