The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
PEORIA, Ill., Oct. 9 -- To strengthen its world-class product and service offerings, Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) is aligning its machine product and marketing organizations to sharpen customer focus, position the company to achieve its...
Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Words are the seven construction vehicle modes to form the vilainous mega robot include hydrolic mining excavator RH400, wheel loader Caterpillar 992G, bulldozer Caterpillar D9L and Mack Cement Mixer.
ShoeBlogging (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Men’s Indiana FX by Caterpillar: Caterpillar work boots for the man who takes work seriously. This heavy-duty boot is made of premium quality full grain oil-resistant leather with padded collar and cushioned insole. The T15 rubber outsole is designed for excellent protection from heat with superb traction on wet surfaces. It also works well on [...]
Transformers Live Action Movie Blog (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
TFW2005 is reporting that their Transformers 2 inside source has revealed the seven vehicles that are the alt modes of the robots that merge to form Devastator. O&K/Terex RH400 - Hydrolic Mining Excavator - (red) Caterpillar 992G - Wheel Loader - (yellow) Caterpillar 773B - Dump Truck - (green) Mack Cement Mixer - (silver/white) Komatsu HD465-7 - Articulated Dump Truck - (red) Kobelco CK2500 - Truss...
bizjournals (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Earth-moving equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc. and Trimble Navigation Ltd. announced a joint venture company, VirtualSite Solutions, to develop software for fleet management and connected work sites. (CAT) (TRMB)
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 5 -- Trimble (Nasdaq: TRMB) will hold a conference call in conjunction with today's announcement that Caterpillar and Trimble have formed a new joint venture to improve customer productivity and lower costs on th...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
The deal involving the financial arm of the construction and mining equipment maker, the first large corporate bond sale since the credit markets froze, is seen as a step towards reopening the market
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
LAS VEGAS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The top executive at Caterpillar Inc said on Monday that his company's in-house finance arm, which lends money to buyers of its construction and mining equipment, had not been affected by the turmoil in credit markets and Wall Street.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Sept 22 (Reuters) - Caterpillar Inc's North American machinery sales may be hurt by a likely late-2008 and full-year 2009 downturn in U.S. non-residential construction spending, said Stifel, Nicolaus & Co analyst Barry Bannister, who slashed his price target on the stock to $88 from $107.
Articles Database (Free subscription) | 09/20/2008
Businesses and organizations in many different industries consider original and rebuilt Caterpillar transmissions to be the best when it comes to heavy-duty parts. They aren’t the only manufacturer, however. These equipment components are integrated with other power and drive train parts to give large equipment the power and precision needed to get even the biggest [...]
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
OMAHA, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Union Pacific Railroad has signed an agreement with Progress Rail Services, a Caterpillar company, to test five SD40-2 locomotives originally built in the
DVICE (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
If you're afraid of robots, finding out that a group from Carnegie Mellon University is teaming up with Caterpillar to make a 700-ton robotic monster probably isn't such a pleasant thought. The monster in question is actually just a...
The engineer (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute are working with engineers at Caterpillar to develop autonomous large-haul vehicles used in mining operations.
within the crainium (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
The ultimate in 'manufactured housing' - if you don't mind living in a concrete house. Caterpillar, the world's largest manufacturer of construction equipment, is starting to support research on the "Contour Crafting" automated construction system that its creator believes will...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
University of Southern California engineer Behrokh Khoshnevis and colleagues are developing a 3D printer for houses. Called Contour Crafting, the system spits out layers of concrete to build a structure from the bottom up. Caterpillar is sponsoring Khoshnevis's research. From the Contour Crafting page: Contour Crafting technology has great potential for automating the construction of whole structures...
