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Industry Beat Ring Power Corporation's Power Systems division has formed a Gas Energy Business unit to market the Cat-branded line of gas engine generators and full service solutions for gas-to-energy power projects. Jake Jacobsen, a degreed electrical engineer, has assumed the role of Gas Energy Account Manager to lead this enterprise. Gas Energy Sales Engineer Nick Chiarugi will report to Jacobsen at Ring Power's headquarters in St. Augustine, Fla. Franklin Equipment announced the opening of a new location in Newcomerstown, Ohio. The new branch is the company's fourth location in Ohio. It will offer equipment rentals for construction and landscaping businesses and for the oil and gas industry. Essex Rental Corp. announced that President and Chief Executive Officer Ronald Schad has elected to resign. Schad will remain as CEO until a replacement is appointed. XAPT Corporation announced the successful "Go Live" of their Microsoft ERP-based dealer management solution (Microsoft Dynamics AX for Equipment Dealers) at Atlantic & Southern Equipment, LLC., headquartered in Atlanta, Ga. LBX Company announced its new senior management team. Joe O'Nan has been promoted to vice president and chief financial officer. Don Harvell has been promoted to vice president Sales North America. Harvell is responsible for all sales and dealer development operations and profitability in North America. Mike Davis has been named vice president Marketing and Communication. Ed Gerber has been promoted to director of International Business. Rod Boyer continues as vice president of Customer Support. Brad Selack is named director of Engineering and Product Development. Yoshio Uno continues as director of Corporate Audit. In other news, LBX Company received the 2013 Martha Layne Collins Award for International Trade Excellence at the Kentucky World Trade Day annual awards luncheon, which featured more than 400 representatives from business, industry and government sectors. LiuGong Poland Machinery Co., Ltd. announced it will acquire the ZZN Transmission Plant in Stalowa Wola, Poland. The event marks another solid step for LiuGong Poland in the direction of developing core parts on its own. Komatsu America Corp. and its distributor Power Motive Corporation (PMC) celebrated the completion of Komatsu CARE's 10,000th service interval. Komatsu America launched the complimentary maintenance program for its Tier-4 machines in 2011. PMC is the Komatsu dealer in Colorado and Wyoming. Sullivan-Palatek, Inc., a manufacturer of air compressors, has partnered with TigerTracks, a cloud-based network that helps dealers to manage and share service and maintenance records with equipment owners. KOBELCO Construction Machinery's fast-paced growth has resulted in expedited plans to build a permanent U.S.-based headquarters in Katy, Texas. The company signed a nine-year lease agreement with plans to occupy the building by September 2014. This new, expansive 101,300-square-foot facility will serve as KOBELCO's North American headquarters, as well as the company's training center and parts distribution location for all of the United States, Canada and Latin America. Please visit us in CONDEX Booth 600. January 2014 | Construction Equipment Distribution | www.cedmag.com | 17