Port Washington-based Modern Equipment Company Inc. makes furnaces and ladles that can undergo the stresses of metal melting at foundries. It can take several months to manufacture a product that can ...

Heavy machinery is entering a new phase where hydraulics, electronics and embedded software are engineered as one integrated ...

Diesel-powered trucks date back to 1923 when one of Karl Benz' early companies -- Benz & Cie -- installed a four-cylinder, 45-horsepower unit in a 5K3 truck chassis. It proved to be a winning ...

The first Caterpillar to arrive in Fairbanks was a 1911 Holt Traction Engine that had Caterpillar brand tracks on it. This machine was the first of its kind to come into Interior Alaska and it proved ...

The clock is ticking on modern heavy-duty trucking. But today’s fleet leaders must balance that push to embrace decarbonization with the pragmatic pull to focus on and find the best equipment ...

North Korea has equipped military construction units with heavy construction equipment needed for building factories in the ...