“Karen is engaged and very supportive of Winfield United’s involvement in AgGateway over the past five years. In her position, she oversees connectivity efforts for crop protection, nutrition, and retail agronomy, and she has encouraged the collaborative work undertaken to improve ADAPT. She also has participated in seed connectivity and product catalog efforts and provided very valuable contributions to the work of AgGateway volunteers. We’re excited to have her on the Board and look forward to working with her in the years ahead,”

“I’ve been on a long journey with digital in marketing roles and IT. In this day and age, and especially over the past year, the industry has learned that you can’t do business without interconnected digital systems. Through AgGateway we have done good work that needs to continue at all levels … allied suppliers, retailers, and distributors. Everyone has been willing to pitch in and work together, and this is a great opportunity to have more direct and active engagement with the organization and its work,”

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Chestnut brings with him over 30 years of experience in sales, marketing, and business development leadership. Before joining DIS, he was vice president of sales and customer support at Faithlife, where he helped the company to nearly double its annual revenue in 4 years. Chestnut previously held leadership positions with Microsoft, including general manager of worldwide business development and marketing for Microsoft’s OEM channel, and general manager in, communications sector, where he led sales and business development for Microsoft’s network service provider channel.

“I am excited to join the industry leader in dealer management solutions for agriculture, construction, and heavy equipment dealers and look forward to being able to help drive the next wave of growth for DIS,”

says Chestnut.

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AEM strives for quality, growth, and opportunities for its members and the equipment manufacturing industry as a whole to thrive in today’s ever-evolving business environment. In working together with one another, volunteer leaders from the association’s member companies help guide AEM’s efforts to develop top-notch services and programs for the benefit of all of the association’s 1,000-plus members.

With that in mind, here are the companies that have become AEM members in the last month:

Aarow App, LLC
ASTOUND Group
Control Logistics, Inc.
Ducker Research & Consulting
FEMA Corp.
Japan External Trade Organization
Keylingo

Source: AEM

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Pete was working in the shop with Hercules Machinery in Sterling, Va., a family-owned pile driving equipment business in the 1970s. After recognizing Pete’s stature in the market with local contractors, former ECA President Ben Dutton forged a connection with him in an effort to expand ECA’s footprint into the region.

ECA opened its fledgling Washington branch in the late 1970s with Pete at the helm. In fact, he worked from home in the early days. ECA Washington was focused primarily on pile hammers at the time, but Pete helped to fuel the company’s much greater aspirations.

“Pete was instrumental in getting ECA started in the foundation drilling business, starting a dealer relationship with Krupp in the mid-1980s, followed by Hütte and KLEMM,”

says CEO Roy Kern.

“This early foray into small-diameter drilling gave us a big head start on many of our competitors, and to this day, foundation drilling is our biggest market.”

Pete’s exceptional mechanical aptitude earned him respect with many foundation contractors and drove ECA Washington’s expansion. Some even suggested he could build a complete KLEMM, Krupp, or Hütte drilling rig with his eyes closed. Schell, whose starting salary with ECA in 1976 was $23,000, went on to contribute more than $7 million in profits over his career during a time when $1 million was a substantial sum for ECA.

Pete’s influence extended far beyond ECA Washington’s territory. His core territory was Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, but his true reach was east of Mississippi.

CEO Roy Kern said in Pete’s eulogy:

“Pete has moved on to a better place to be reunited with Jesus and his wife Christl, and he’s probably designing the ultimate drill rig with Michelangelo as I speak. He was a great man and his legacy lives on – at ECA and in all of you.”

Pete retired in 2013, but his legacy lives on through his son, Dave. He followed in Pete’s footsteps in 2006 and currently serves as Corporate Director of Parts & Service at ECA Washington. Dave wears the watch presented to Pete at his retirement dinner in 2014 to remind him of his father’s service to the company. The watch inscription reads “1976 – 2013,” but it seems the Schell name will be alive and well at ECA for decades to come.

The article was written by Brian M. Fraley Fraley Construction Marketing

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The reports – completed in accordance with EPA specifications under its Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) – propose the use of R-1234yf as a substitute for R-134a in the following five machine categories:

• Self-propelled agricultural machinery –combine, sprayer, forage harvester, windrower, floater
• Compact equipment – tractors under 40 HP and utility vehicles, compact construction equipment
• Construction, forestry, and mining equipment – excavators, dozers, wheel loaders, loader backhoes, feller benchers, log skidders and road graders, articulated trucks, excavators, loaders, sub-surface machines
• Agricultural Tractors 40 HP and above – Two Wheel Drive, MFD, Four-wheel Drive and Track Tractors
• Utility Vehicles – Commercial Use Utility Vehicles

With the letters of completeness, AEM member company equipment with R-1234yf can be placed on the market in North America for all of the applications listed above in late September.

AEM Director of Materials Management John Wagner, said:

“The work done by AEM and its members have provided the industry with an alternative that has a significant and positive impact on the environment. The process by which we conducted our efforts may also serve as a guide for how AEM can pull together the right people – with the right interests, backgrounds, and expertise – to be able to address challenging industry issues that involve interactions with EPA and other governmental organizations.”

AEM’s SNAP Application Development team was formed in the summer of 2018, and the group met with EPA in mid-2019 to learn the critical items that need to be included in the risk assessment reports AEM would eventually go on to submit.

Throughout the multi-year-long process, the association has gained new members, Chemours, Bergstrom Engineering, and Honeywell, due to its work on behalf of the equipment manufacturing industry to propose the use of R-1234yf refrigerant in off-road mobile machinery. Other member company participants included: CNH Industrial, AGCO, Caterpillar, Doosan Bobcat, Red Dot, Claas, John Deere, Wacker Neuson, JLG,  Yanmar, JCB, MacDon, Volvo Construction Equipment, and Kubota.

“Also, every participating company trusted AEM with confidential business information which the association consolidated to define our industry risk for our risk analyses. We met about every other week for two-and-a-half years, talking about the risk and examining every possibility to come to the best possible risk analysis.”

said Wagner.

EPA’s snap program

SNAP was established under Section 612 of the Clean Air Act to identify and evaluate substitutes for ozone-depleting substances. The program, which is overseen by EPA, looks at overall risks to human health and the environment of existing and new substitutes, publishes lists and promotes the use of acceptable substances, as well as provides the public with key, up-to-date information.

The program also reviews substitutes within a comparative risk framework in a number of industrial sectors. One of those sectors is refrigeration and air conditioning. EPA’s decision on the acceptability of new substitutes proposed by manufacturers, formulators, or users is based primarily on the potential human health and environmental risks posed by the substitutes as compared to other substitutes available for particular end-use.

EPA’s decision on the acceptability of new substitutes proposed by manufacturers, formulators, or users is based primarily on the potential human health and environmental risks posed by the substitutes, as compared to other substitutes available for particular end-use. EPA’s evaluation of each substitute in an end-use is based on the following types of information and analyses:

• Atmospheric effects
• Exposure assessments
• Releases in the workplace and in homes
• Releases to ambient air and surface water
• Releases from the management of solid wastes
• Toxicity data
• Flammability
• Other environmental impacts

Recognition

In addition, AEM has been recognized for its efforts to propose the use of R-1234yf refrigerant in off-road mobile machinery. The association was nominated by the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development (IGSD) for a SAE E2T Award for Sustainable AC in Off-Road Equipment. IGSD works to promote just and sustainable societies and to protect the environment by advancing the understanding, development, and implementation of effective, and accountable systems of governance for sustainable development. The Mobile Air Conditioning Society (MACS) also sent a letter of support to AEM in recognition of the association’s work on R-1234yf.

Source: AEM

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