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GMK Korund Ltd has been
appointed by Sandvik Construction
as official dealer for the latter’s
mobile crushers and screens in
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and
Turkmenistan. In addition to
supplying a comprehensive
range of machines, GMK will
also provide full aftermarket
care, spare parts and dedicated
customer service. GMK is already
well established in Kazakhstan
and central Asia, with facilities
and service engineers located
throughout the area. The
company will also be able to call
on 24 hour support from Sandvik
head offices in the UK where the
machines are manufactured.
Herbert Buder, global
Red Road implosions dropped
from Opening Ceremony
The simultaneous explosive demolition of the five 30 storey Red Road blocks of flats in Glasgow will no
longer be a feature of the Opening Ceremony for the 2014 Commonwealth Games being staged at
Celtic Park football ground on 23 July.
D&Ri understands that the decision comes as a result of police fears that the demolition could
potentially become a target for activists or worse. This meant that to address this, the resources that
would have to committed by the police and the necessary scale of the security operation would be far
greater than normally required at a standard blowdown and hence its removal from the programme by
the Glasgow 2014 organising committee.
Safedem managing director William Sinclair told D&Ri that the simultaneous demolition of all
five blocks will be rescheduled to take place at a later date following consultations with the key
stakeholders, and it will still be probably the single largest explosive demolition event ever carried out in
Europe – and still a nice one to watch.
There had been some public opposition to the plan to include the blowdown in the ceremony, with
more than 17,000 signing a petition against its inclusion in the Opening Ceremony, and it also sparked
considerable debate in local and national press concerning the message that the blowdown would send
to the global audience that was to watch the live TV broadcast.
The blowdown will be the subject of a presentation by William during the 2014 World Demolition
Summit in Amsterdam on Thursday November 6, 2014.
Sergey V. Bereza (left) of
GMK Korund Ltd with Dinggui
Gao, new president of
Sandvik Construction
German trailer
manufacturer
Kögel has
appointed
Anton
Bigelmaier
,
reporting direct
to managing
director Thomas
Heckel, to
the position of head of
aftermarket, where he
will have responsibility for
expanding the spare parts
and service network across
Europe as well as the
broadening of education and
training for customers and
partners.
Superior
Industries
has appointed
Kevin Krieger
to the position
of territory
sales manager
throughout the
Mountain and
Northwest regions of the USA
where he will work closely
with dealers and customers in
Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
Montana, Wyoming, Colorado
and New Mexico. He brings
almost 25 years of conveyor
experience to his new
position, including the last 12
years with Fenner Dunlop.
KPI-JCI and
Astec Mobile
Screens has
appointed
Don
Mueller
to
the position of
regional sales
manager for the
company’s track
mounted machines covering
the northwest territory
of North America, which
includes Washington, Oregon,
northern California, Hawaii,
Alaska, British Columbia,
Alberta, Montana and
Wyoming. He previously was
with Astec AggReCon West,
a KPI/JCI and Astec Mobile
Screens authorised dealer in
Eugene, Oregon.
PEOPLE NEWS
distributor manager Sandvik
Construction said of the
appointment: “We are sure
that the combination of
Sandvik equipment and global
aftermarket support, together
with the local knowledge and
industry expertise of Korund,
will enable Sandvik customers
throughout the area to benefit
from a winning combination.”
In a separate announcement,
Sandvik also announced the
appointment of a new Portuguese
distributor for its crushers
and screens. With effect from
March 6, Ascendum Group
will represent Sandvik in the
country where it will supply
a comprehensive range of
machines, along with providing
full aftermarket care, spare
parts and customer service. The
Group has offices, workshops
and service engineers throughout
Portugal and is well established
in the distribution, rental, sales
and service of construction
equipment for the building and
public works sectors.
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Sandvik appoints mobile dealers
According to reports in the
USA, in the near future a formal
announcement will be made
concerning the merging of
LVI Services and NCM, with
the resulting combined entity
going by the name of Northstar
Demolition & Remediation. LVI
has been top of the
D&Ri
100
listing for the last few years and
last year saw NCM standing in
second position.
The combined companies
operating under the Northstar
name will therefore likely have a
turnover well in excess of US$400
million (€290 million), making it
the largest demolition contractor
in the world by a considerable
margin. The company that
came third in last year’s listing,
Brandenburg Industrial Services,
had a turnover of US$180 million
(€130 million).
NCM is itself the result of
a merger of three of North
America’s demolition contractors,
Nuprecon, CST Environmental
and MARCOR Environmental,
which took place in 2011.
US industry insider Herb
Duane reported that Northstar
will be headed by LVI CEO Scott
E. State and will make use of a
divisional structure, with Sage
Khara from NCM as president
and COO of the non-union
division and LVI’s John Leonard
as president and CFO of the
union division.
In addition, other presidents
will be appointed to tiered
operational divisions, such as
Industrial Services, Nuclear,
Energy and so forth.
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LVI/NCM merger births
an industry giant
