WASHINGTON (January 18, 2018) – The Equipment Leasing & Finance Foundation (the Foundation) releases the January 2018 Monthly Confidence Index for the Equipment Finance Industry (MCI-EFI) today. Designed to collect leadership data, the index reports a qualitative assessment of both the prevailing business conditions and expectations for the future as reported by key executives from the $1 trillion equipment finance sector.

NEW YORK (January 22, 2018) — The global fire protection materials market for construction industry is expected to reach USD 8.10 billion by 2025. 

The market is anticipated to grow with the implementation of fire safety regulations and strict building codes. In addition, the growing awareness among people toward fire safety is anticipated to trigger the market growth. 

MANITOWOC, Wis. — The Manitowoc Company Inc. announced it will relocate its corporate headquarters from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Manitowoc will lease approximately 16,000 square feet in One Park Place in the Park Plaza office park. Manitowoc has already started to transition headquarters employees with the relocation expected to be completed by the end of the first quarter, 2018 pending completion of the build-out.

LAUREL, Miss. — The Laurel Housing Authority will be awarded $488,000 in Affordable Housing Program (AHP) funds from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas) and FHLB Dallas member The First, A National Banking Association, to provide housing rehabilitation assistance for 72 very low-income homeowners in Laurel, Mississippi.

NEW YORK — Basalt Infrastructure Partners II LP (“Basalt”) and DCO Energy (“DCO”) announced the closing of a transaction to acquire a joint equity ownership stake in DB Energy Assets, a newly formed entity that owns four well established district energy systems in Hartford, CT, Wilmington, DE Montclair State University, NJ and Atlantic City, NJ, and a portfolio of cogeneration assets in the United States.

GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. (January 16, 2018) — ASV Holdings Inc. has added Jim Reed’s Truck Sales to its dealer network.