The company recently introduced the 644 G-tier to the U.S. market and debuted the 544 G-tier in Canada.
After a successful introduction into the Canadian market in 2021, Moline, Illinois-based John Deere has expanded its G-tier wheel loader offerings into the U.S. with the 644 G-tier wheel loader. As part of the John Deere Performance Tiering Strategy, customers can benefit from tailored offerings that provide more performance, comfort and economical options.
The expansion of this lineup also includes the new 544 G-tier wheel loader now available in Canada. The 544 G-tier provides customers working in a variety of applications with a “no-frills, versatile and reliable solution” backed by John Deere and its dealer network, the company says.
“Not every customer is looking for the most technology in a machine. By introducing the 544 G-tier in Canada and expanding the availability of the 644 G-tier into the United States, we are providing our customers with options to help meet their diverse needs,” says Luke Gribble, solutions marketing manager for John Deere. “The G-tier models support customers looking for reliability, without the added extras that they would find in a P-tier or X-tier machine, and that fit their investment levels as well. With the G-tier models, customers are getting the versatility and ruggedness in a machine without any compromises.”
Now available in the U.S., the 644 G-tier leverages industry-proven components and is equipped with a cab design that promotes ease of operation. With the 644 G-tier machines, John Deere says it delivers a solution ideal for customers in the governmental, rental, site development and asphalt industries. The 644 G-tier wheel loaders include a John Deere 6.8L engine and feature John Deere Teammate axles. Customers can also customize the machine through a variety of base-level packages, including options related to locking differentials, ride control, seats, radio and rear chassis work-lights.
Making its debut in the Canadian market, the 544 G-tier is designed to provide a more economical solution in the 3-yard loader size class that does not sacrifice the “performance and quality customers expect from a John Deere machine.” The 544 G-tier controls were designed with operators of all skill sets and productivity in mind, offering a simplified setup and overall functionality.
Promoting ease of operation, the in-cab controls include adjustable boom-height kick-out, return to carry and return to dig, which can be easily activated from inside the cab, speeding production times during repetitive applications. In addition, the company says the 544 G-tier is ideal for those looking for a capable machine for rental, agriculture, governmental and snow removal applications.
The 544 G-tier can be equipped with optional features to help tackle challenging applications, as well. Optional features include a hydraulic reversing fan, axle coolers and front locking differentials, helping to keep it at peak performance.
The optional third and fourth function hydraulics allow additional attachments to be equipped on the machine, amplifying job versatility. On the 544 G-tier, John Deere customers can choose between pin-on bucket options as well as a Hi-Vis/ISO or JRB-style couplers, which are compatible with K-Series, L-series and Performance Tiering buckets and attachments. Customers needing extra reach on the job can add high-lift linkage to gain an additional 14 inches of hinge-pin height over standard linkage.
The sale includes a four-shaft industrial shredder, an incineration system and other facility assets.
Tiger Group, a Los Angeles-based auction service company, is hosting an online auction in collaboration with New Jersey-based Perry Videx LLC to sell the remaining assets of Aemerge RedPak’s former medical waste treatment facility in Hesperia, California.
“Opened in 2017, the plant destroyed and sterilized medical waste, converted it into clean energy and diverted up to 95 percent of treated waste from landfills,” says John Coelho, senior director of Tiger Commercial & Industrial. “This relatively new equipment continues to perform well and is available at a fraction of the original cost.”
Bidding for the online auction opened at 10:30 a.m. PT Sept. 13 and closes 10:30 a.m. PT Sept. 20.
The auction features a thermal oxidizer and patented Carbonizer incineration system, which was used to process organic waste in a negative-pressure, no-oxygen environment with high heat. The incineration system leaves three sterile co-products, including synthesis gas, treated glass and metals that can later be recycled and carbon char that can be repurposed as alternative fuel
A four-shaft industrial shredder, an Untha RS 100-1200-110—included in the sale is able to handle all forms of recycling. Other items up for auction include the following:
Plant utilities available in the sale include a vertical reciprocating conveyor, knife gate valves and articulated screw conveyors.
To inspect these assets or obtain additional information, email auctions@tigergroup.com or call 805-497-4999.
A public park in Rockford, Illinois, can benefit from an abandoned building demolition on its perimeter, say officials.
An abandoned seven-story building in Rockford, Illinois, is in the crosshairs of that city’s government, which would like to see the structure demolished to improve access to a city park.
Although the city was preparing to allocate as much a $3.1 million to take down the Founder’s Landing building, also known as the Lorden Building, the Rockford Register Star reports the Rockford City Council has awarded a $1.4 million demolition contract to Loves Park, Illinois-based N-Trak Group.
According to an earlier news report from WIFR-TV, the mayor of Rockford is among those eager to take down the Lorden Building, which sits next to Davis Park in the city’s downtown.
The mayor and an alderman in Rockford are quoted as saying Davis Park has been underutilized during its nearly 30 years of existence, and the mayor places part of the blame on the presence of the abandoned building.
“You look over there you see this old, dilapidated building sitting in the center,” WIRF quotes Mayor Thomas McNamara as saying. “We’re going to be opening up the views of the Rock River,” he says of the planned demolition project.
Davis Park has at times been a concert venue, with additional plans calling for an amphitheater, a skate park and “urban beach [with] splash pads,” according to the mayor.
The seven-story building in question, constructed as a hosiery factory and later a furniture warehouse, has “been vacant for more than 25 years,” according to WIFR.
An archived Rockford Public Library article says a storage firm converted the 48,000-square-foot building into a warehouse in 1951. The building’s listing on Emporis.com indicates it was built in 1917 and 1918 and is made predominantly of concrete.
Contractor N-Trak is a as a woman-owned and operated business that provides underground construction, earthwork, road reconstruction, concrete construction, demolition, mobile crushing and aggregate and asphalt production services.
North Dakota city wants to take down asbestos-laden apartment tower.
The government of Fargo, North Dakota, is seeking additional funding so it can set a schedule to demolish a 22-floor apartment building in the city of about 125,000 people.
Local media reports indicate the city needs more money before it can move ahead with demolishing the Lashkowitz High Rise building in downtown Fargo. Valley News cites city officials as saying added expenses are tied to asbestos mitigation.
Valley News reports that in 2019 the Lashkowitz building had some 250 residents who were notified at that time the building was purchased by a new owner with plans to redevelop with the site. The Valley News calls Lashkowitz High Rise a “now-obsolete facility,” and another media report indicates the last tenants moved out in December of last year.
The same media report quotes U.S. Sen. John Hoeven of North Dakota as saying, “The Lashkowitz High Rise is in a prime location, but due to a severely outdated design and health hazards, this building needs to be demolished and redeveloped in order for the city to make the best use of this land.”
Hoeven was in Fargo to say he has been working to secure funding for asbestos mitigation so the demolition project can move forward.
A listing on Emporis.com indicates the 204-foot-high Lashkowitz High Rise was constructed between 1968 and 1970 and when it was built was “thought upon completion to have been the tallest building in the world to use the [concrete] lift-slab method of construction.”
Information on bids and proposals pertaining to projects overseen by the City of Fargo are listed here.
French technology provider says its new device provides high functionality in a small configuration.
Pellenc ST is offering the Compact+ automated sorting machine “to support operators with their sorting line refurbishment projects and integrators with complex projects.”
The France-based company calls the Compact+ the latest generation in its Compact line. Those machines, Pellenc says, “are inherently compact and share the latest advanced sorting technology with the Mistral+ Connect, giving the same high levels of performance.”
The new Compact+ is available in two configurations (conveyor or gantry) and “is particularly suited to installations where space and access [are] limited,” Pellenc says, including facility retrofits.
“The machines have been designed to interface easily with all types of high-speed conveyors supplied by different integrators, whether for a refurbishment project or a new sorting center,” Pellenc adds.
As well as being easy to integrate, the Compact+ combines a new spectrometer with an extended near-infrared (NIR)/visible (VIS) spectrum designed to provide “focused illumination.” Pellenc adds, “This combination enables recovery of [materials] to high levels of purity.” In particular, the “FLOW Detection” system improves the separation of paper from cardboard; sorting different grades of PET plastic; or separating different grades of wood scrap.