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The expanded facility will provide customer and dealer support 7 days a week.
A recent 173,000-square-foot expansion at Hitachi Construction Machinery Americas’ Salt Lake City parts warehouse aims to minimize West Coast customers’ downtime. The manufacturer currently has around $140 million in parts inventory across its U.S. warehouses.
The facility will provide customer and dealer support seven days a week to get parts faster to Hitachi machines.
“When we were deciding upon the location for this warehouse, it was important for us to be close to our customers. While this requires additional investment and complexity for us, our goal is to improve the speed of delivery to our customers, maintain world-class fill rates and be a highly reliable partner,” said Jeremy Dieterle, vice president, Parts Hitachi Construction Machinery Americas.
Hitachi said it has invested in equipment and tech to efficiently handle all its parts, from O-rings to the largest EX8000 mining shovel parts.
Valley Supply & Equipment Acquired by Stephenson Equipment
Twelve-store East Coast crane and construction equipment dealer Stephenson Equipment recently acquired Valley Supply & Equipment, a three-store construction and paving equipment dealer. Valley Supply has two stores in Maryland and one in Virginia and carries the JCB, LeeBoy, Dynapac and Wacker Neuson equipment lines.
Stephenson Equipment has stores in New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., and carries the Manitowoc, Grove, National Crane, Potain, Manitex, Elliot and Montarent equipment lines.
Bacon Universal Launches Rental Division, Used-Equipment Website
Five-store Hawaii Kubota and Komatsu dealer Bacon Universal has launched a new rental division, Bacon Rentals, as well as a dedicated used-equipment website.
The first Bacon Rentals location opened this month in Wailuku on Maui, adjacent to the existing Bacon Universal branch and will serve as a hub for rental operations on the island. More locations will be rolled out in the coming months.
The first Bacon Rentals location opened earlier this month in Wailuku on the island of Maui.Bacon Universal
Jeffrey Pape, who has more than 32 years’ experience in the equipment rental sector, has been named rental manager of the Maui region.
