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Industry Beat Chicago Machinery Co. has been named a SANY America excavator dealer covering a 150-mile radius surrounding Chicago in northern Illinois and northern Indiana. Illini Hi-Reach Inc. celebrated its 20-year anniversary in August with a rousing customer/sports celebrity golf outing at the nationally renowned Cog Hill Golf Club in Lemont, Ill. Along with many of Illini's valued customers, dozens of nationally known sports celebrities were along to enjoy the day's festivities, including: Chicago Bears greats Dan Hampton, Steve "Mongo"McMichael, Otis Wilson, Kevin Butler, Jim Thornton,and Glen Kozlowski; Murray Bannerman, Chicago Blackhawks; Randy Hundley, Chicago Cubs; Carlos May, Chicago White Sox; Mike Torrez, New York Yankees; Sean "The Beast" Fister, 3-time 'LDA' long drive champ; and Chicago sports media icon, Hub Arkush, as master of ceremonies. Illini Hi-Reach is a long-time AED member and has served the greater Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana marketplace with JLG aerial work platforms and telehandlers since 1993. Pictured: Chicago Bears great, Jim Morrissey, on his way to the tee box at the Illini 20-Year Invitational 2013. Edward Ehrbar Inc. has been appointed by JCB to represent the manufacturer's compact and mid-range construction equipment, including new, pre-owned and rental models, and provide JCB parts and service from locations in Yonkers and Holbrook, N.Y., and Danbury, Conn. Effective Oct. 1, H&E Equipment Services, Inc. (H&E) announced the opening of its new store in Pasadena, Texas. The dealer now has three stores in the Houston area: two full-service construction and industrial equipment facilities and a third that is a fullservice crane operation. H&E has been in Texas for more than 50 years, and now has 11 locations throughout the state, with 68 locations nationwide. Terex Construction, a business segment of Terex Corporation, entered into a private label agreement with Vermeer Corporation. Terex will provide Vermeer with a forestry compact track loader specifically designed to work in Vermeer's applications. Volvo Construction Equipment has sold its dealership interests in central Europe to its long-term distribution partner, Ascendum Group (ASC). The deal became effective Sept. 30 and includes the transfer of all assets, employees and sales territories. Volvo CE and K-Tec Earthmovers Inc. have engaged in a strategic alliance to promote efficient methods of earthmoving worldwide. This relationship will also allow the Volvo CE dealership the opportunity to represent the K-Tec product offering on a worldwide basis. Bobcat Company has pledged its continued support of research and development activities conducted in tandem with nearby North Dakota State University Fargo (NDSU) at the university's Technology Incubator, where Bobcat is an anchor tenant. Bobcat will match $2 for every $1 provided by a grant through North Dakota's Centers of Excellence program. The company is contributing more than $400,000 toward the program, which will result in more than $200,000 in additional grants for NDSU. New BOMAG Dealers Announced Miller-Bradford & Risberg, Inc. now offers BOMAG asphalt pavers and the RS Series of reclaimers and stabilizers at all of their locations in Wisconsin and Michigan. With these additions, the company represents the complete line of BOMAG road building products. Stephenson Equipment, Inc. has been named as the authorized BOMAG road building equipment distributor in portions of Pennsylvania and New York. The territory stretches from central and northeastern Pennsylvania through Philadelphia and westward to Harrisburg. In New York, Stephenson Equipment's territory covers Syracuse to Buffalo and southward to Binghamton. Finkbiner Equipment Company has been appointed the authorized BOMAG asphalt paving and rehabilitation distributor in portions of Illinois. In a territory stretching from central and northern Illinois into the Chicago market area, including Lake and Porter counties in Indiana, Finkbiner Equipment now offers asphalt contractors BOMAG's line of Cedarapids paving and material transfer equipment and the MPH and CMI RS series of reclaimer/stabilizers. Throughout central Illinois, reaching from Springfield to the Quad Cities, Finkbiner Equipment also offers BOMAG's milling equipment line. November 2013 | Construction Equipment Distribution | www.cedmag.com | 17