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Lifting Gear Hire Corp. recently assisted in a job that required moving a 25- by 50-foot, 28,000-pound model railroad from Farmington to Connellsville, Pa.

United Rentals has provided more than $25 million worth of equipment to the regions hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy, northeast region vice president Kevin Parr told RER.

For Immediate Release October 1, 2012

Las Vegas, Nevada: October 1, 2012 – Armada Dynamics will be participating in the up and coming Microsoft Directions 2012 NAV Partner Channel Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. EQM Rental Software from Armada Dynamics U.S. is in use in 10 countries on 3 continents, by some of the largest Rental companies in Europe.

Deere-Hitachi Construction Machinery Corp. announced it will expand its operations in Kernersville, N.C., creating at least 340 jobs by 2016, adding to the 700 current employees at the North Carolina plant.

Peterson Tractor’s Chico, Calif., branch became a Caterpillar-certified Five Star Contamination Control facility, indicating that the branch is in accordance with Caterpillar’s contamination-control procedures, according to Peterson Tractor’s website.

Mobile, Ala.-based Beard Equipment Co. recently launched its Digging for a Cure Project, an effort to raise between $60,000 and $70,000 for USA Children’s & Women’s Hospital and the USA Mitchell Cancer Institute, with the rental revenues earned from its pink John Deere 200C excavator.

Bobcat Co. has expanded its dealer network with the addition of Lancaster, S.C.-based Team Carolina Powersports as an authorized sales and service provider of Bobcat compact tractors.

The CSL Group of companies, which distributes Snorkel aerial lifts in Canada, is expanding into a larger building in Edmonton, Alberta, that will house its three main businesses all under the same roof.

The American Rental Association this week announced that The Rental Show was named among the fastest-growing trade shows in the United States by Trade Show Executive magazine.

Seven years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and damaged one of the biggest cold-storage warehouses in the region, Briggs Equipment is supplying electric forklifts to New Orleans Cold Storage’s new $40 million facility at the Port of New Orleans.