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IR to sell Bobcat,attachment divisions
Ingersoll-Rand Co. will sell its Bobcat, utility equipment, and attachments business units to Doosan Infracore for $4.9 billion, according to Herbert L. Henkel, chairman, president, and CEO.

The combined businesses manufacture and sell compact equipment including skid-steer loaders, compact track loaders, mini-excavators, attachments, and other general-purpose light construction equipment.

The sale is expected to be completed by the end of 2007.

CHEC's Curtis assists pavement center
Alan Curtis, CHEC Consultants, Redding, CA, was recently retained by California Pavement Preservation Center (CP2) to assist the center in its start up and development.

Established by the California DOT (Caltrans) in June 2006, the center is located at California State University- Chico. Tom Ferrera, director, says the center provides pavement-related services including promoting pavement preservation, working on failure investigations, and providing education and training to Caltrans. Curtis will be:

• Working with a subgroup of the Pavement Preservation Task Group to develop a Maintenance Technical Advisory Guide chapter on interlayers and the use of them with chip seals.