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BrandSafway, has formed an innovation council to identify, develop and launch new, forward-thinking ideas.

JLG parent company Oshkosh Corporation has announced that President and CEO, Wilson Jones has won a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award honoring the Top CEOs in 2018.

Makita is hitting the road with the new Driving Innovation Tour, a fleet of fully-custom vehicles with product specialists delivering an interactive and hands-on experience for tool users and dealers.

ClarkDietrich is excited to announce new user-friendly enhancements to its industry-leading ProSTUD Drywall Framing System. ProSTUD steel framing components will now come standard with ClarkDietrich’s new Smart Edge technology. 

Sto Corp. announced that the company’s prefabrication division, StoPanel Technology, is now partnered with Swisspearl, the inventors of fiber cement panels. The two companies have teamed up to offer a continuous insulation system that uniquely combines the convenience and cost-effectiveness of offsite panel manufacturing with the look and feel of an innovative, contemporary aesthetic. 

Sto Corp. announced that the company’s prefabrication division, StoPanel Technology, is now partnered with Dri-Design, to offer a unique non-composite pressure-equalized rain-screen, architectural metal wall system as part of its StoPanel line of products.

The Steel Joist Institute (SJI) will present the new “Welding In, On and Around Steel Joists” webinar on Wednesday, July 18 from 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. EDT, followed by a 15-minute Q&A session.

Material handling equipment supplier, Jesco Iron Craft, Inc. d/b/a Jescraft, is phasing in Quick Response Codes (also known as QR codes) on its product labels. Jescraft’s introduction of QR codes on its product labels will convey to users, important safety, maintenance and assembly instructions, using technology to make this information easily accessible on their smartphones!

The Bonadio Group’s 14th annual Upstate New York Contractors State of the Industry Survey found profitability and enthusiasm trending upward for the region’s construction firms. Results measured five critical issues for today’s construction companies: contracts, surety binding issues, profitability, tax reform, and the outlook for the future.