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ARKU will host InfoDays at its new facility in Cincinnati Oct. 6-8. The three-day event will showcase the company’s wide spectrum of precision levelers and deburring machines.

President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of senators agreed upon a new infrastructure funding plan. The news was greeted warmly by several trade groups.

Regulations, COVID-19 effects exacerbate existing driver shortage, making trucks as hard to find as steel.

McConnellsburg, Pa.-based JLG Industries, Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation company and global manufacturer of mobile elevating work platforms and telehandlers, now offers its new generation of rough-terrain and electric rough-terrain scissor lifts in 40-foot and 47-foot models.

For the first time in years, all segments of the heavy equipment market are pointing in the right direction, resulting in boom times for the manufacturers and their suppliers.

Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., Los Angeles, reported record sales of $3.42 billion during the second quarter. Sales were up 69.3 percent compared with the prior year.

In recent years, manufacturers have found little reason to shift from copper to competing materials.

Nucor Corp., Charlotte, N.C., will acquire Hannibal Industries for $370 million. Hannibal is a provider of racking solutions to warehouses, serving the e-commerce, industrial, food storage and retail segments. Pending approvals, Nucor will purchase 100 percent of Hannibal Industries' outstanding shares from its Employee Stock Ownership Plan.