MILWAUKEE (January 27, 2016) - The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) has produced a new brush chipper safety manual that outlines safe equipment operation, start-up and shutdown guidelines and maintenance precautions for a variety of brush chipper machine types.

Manufacturer members working through AEM’s Environmental & Reduction Equipment Council (EREC) provided content development and review, with input also provided by AEM’s Forestry Equipment Council.

NATIONAL (January 27, 2016) — The Power Tool Institute (PTI) recently announced the launch of its new website. PTI’s new site features mobile compatibility and easy access to specific safety information for various tool types, including information for teachers to use in the classroom.

CHICAGO, Ill. (January 26, 2016) – UL’s Integrated Health & Safety Institute (IHSI) announced that it has published a new standard to address how closely aligning health and safety strategies can yield measurable benefits. 

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (January 27, 2016) - ACT Construction Equipment, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, joins Bandit Industries’ growing network of authorized dealers. ACT is stocking Bandit's compact line with a wide range of hand fed chippers and stumpers in stock and ready to show and demonstrate. They are fully stocked with parts and trained to service hand fed chippers and stump grinders.

SAN FRANCISCO (January 19, 2016) – The construction industry is entering 2016 less optimistic than in 2015, but overall bullish about local, nonresidential construction activity, according to a recent survey of industry contractors and equipment distributors released from Wells Fargo Equipment Finance, a subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Company.