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Industry Beat July 2014 | Construction Equipment Distribution | www.cedmag.com | 17 Komptech USA Inc. has become Komptech Americas LLC. Morbark added nine new dealers and expanded the equipment offerings of three existing dealers over the past year. New dealers Bobcat of Buffalo, Bobcat of Fort Wayne, Cubex, Ltd., Encon Equipment, Equipment Seekers, Goodfellow Corpora- tion and Greenman Machinery Company, as well as existing Morbark industrial equipment dealer James River Equipment, became authorized dealers of Morbark tree care equip- ment, selling the company's heavy-duty Beever line of brush chippers, as well as Morbark stump grinders. New dealers Suffolk County Brake Service, Goodfellow Corporation and AfrEquip, as well as existing Morbark tree care dealers Alexander Equipment Company and Ness Turf Equipment, are now official industrial equipment dealers, handling Morbark's complete line of recycling and forestry machines. Morbark is the first original equip- ment manufacturer to require all of its authorized dealers to have Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA) chipper operator specialists on staff. To date, 20 Morbark staff, 66 Morbark dealer personnel and more than 300 chipper users have attended the nine TCIA Chipper Operator Specialist workshops Morbark and its dealers have hosted, along with two that Morbark has sponsored with TCIA. Brush chipper accidents are a significant concern for tree care and landscape employers, employees and equipment manufac- turers; and many chipper operators receive little formal training on how to use the equipment and avoid accidents. Caterpillar recently announced that Randy Krotowski, vice president with responsibility for the Global Information Services (GIS) Division and the compa- ny's Chief Information Officer (CIO), has elected to resign from the company to pursue other opportunities.