The bucket of an awe-inspiring crawler excavator collected nearly $20,000 in donations for the Wounded Warrior Project at KOBELCO Construction Machinery USA’s ConExpo/ConAgg booth.   KOBELCO created only five limited edition SK350LC crawler excavators wrapped in a patriotic/military design as part of a WWP fundraiser, and displayed one at the recent Las Vegas, Nev. construction industry trade show. Thousands of ConExpo/ConAgg attendees stopped by the KOBELCO booth and had their photos taken with this machine wrapped in graphics including the American flag, silhouettes of soldiers and logos from all five armed force divisions. The $19,317.75 donated by booth visitors over … Read more

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. has completed construction of the new Mars Chocolate North America plant in Topeka, Kan. The plant is the first new Mars Chocolate North America site in the U.S. in the last 35 years. The completion of the roughly 500,000-square-foot facility also represents McCarthy’s first completion of a Kansas project since 1991. The total cost of the project was $270 million, including $195 million in construction costs. McCarthy constructed the project in a joint-venture relationship with MC Industrial, Inc., an independent McCarthy company. “For Mars Chocolate North America, having McCarthy’s construction and industrial … Read more