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BUSINESS LATEST INDUSTRY NEWS

Doosan Infracore/
Doosan Infracore
North America LLC
doosanequipment.com
Doosan Infracore has formed a
strategic partnership with U.S.
big-data unicorn Palantir Technologies for the first time in Korea,

as part of the effort to accelerate
digital transformation.
Palantir, a Silicon Valley-based
startup, provides big-data analysis
platforms to organizations in various
fields-ranging from the public sector to finance, to manufacturing-to
be used for assessing and achieving
a variety of business purposes,
processes and goals.
According to Inc.'s 2018 list of
unicorns (startup companies with
current valuation of $1 billion or
more), Palantir is the fifth largest,
valued at $20.5 billion after Uber,
Airbnb, SpaceX and WeWork.
Through strategic partnership
with Palantir, Doosan Infracore will
build a big data platform to optimize
business operation and speed up
the decision-making process. More
specifically, the company will visualize data across businesses, including
sales, production, R&D, quality
control, customer services and Internet-of-Things solutions (DoosanCONNECT), establishing collaboration to strengthen communication
between businesses and, ultimately,

boost effectiveness in operation.
Doosan Infracore North America
expands dealer network with the
addition of two ACT Construction
Equipment branches in Cloverdale,
Va., and Winston-Salem, N.C.
These locations now offer customers sales, service, parts and rental of a
range of Doosan equipment, including
crawler excavators, wheel excavators,
material handlers and wheel loaders.
ACT Construction Equipment has
been in business since 1951, under
current ownership since 1973 and
in the compact equipment market
since 2008.
In other news, Doosan Infracore North America announced
its top-performing equipment
dealerships of 2018 for demonstrating a high quality of customer service
across sales, parts and services, and
scoring well on their annual dealer
performance reviews.
Top 2018 Doosan dealers include
the following enterprises:
* Barry Equipment (Webster, Mass.)
* Best Line Equipment
(Allentown, Penn.)

Hyundai Expands Distribution Network

Bill Klein (far right), district manager-Northeast at HCEA, welcomes the Correlli
family's (from left) Ryan, general manager; Bill, sales and parts manager; and
Patrick, president, to the Hyundai dealership network.

Hyundai Construction Equipment
Americas has expanded its North
American authorized dealer network with the addition of Correlli
Inc., in the Baltimore, Md., area.
Patrick Correlli and his sons started the company on June 1, 1999,
as an independent repair shop,
supporting all makes and models of
construction equipment.
This newest addition brings
Hyundai's North American network
to more than 70 dealerships operating in 150-plus locations, offering
sales, service and parts for the full
line of Hyundai excavators, wheel
loaders, compaction rollers and
other construction equipment. *

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Hyundai Construction Equipment Americas Inc., (877) 509-2254, hceamericas.com

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* Bobcat of Buffalo
(Lockport, N.Y.)
* Bobcat of Mandan
(Mandan, N.D.)
* Bobcat of Omaha
(Omaha, Neb.)
* Capital Tractor (Greenwich, N.Y.)
* Earthworks Equipment
(Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
* Equipment East (Dracut, Mass.)
* Gateway Bobcat of Missouri
(Valley Park, Mo.)
* Paul Equipment
(Balmoral, New Brunswick)
* Wilson Equipment
(Central Point, Ore.)
Representatives from the top
Doosan dealers earned a spot on the
Doosan Dealer Advisory Council, a
group of individuals that serve as a
resource for Doosan Infracore North
America and provide feedback to the
Doosan leadership team.
Doosan also opened its second
North American parts distribution
center, in Lacey, Wash., near Seattle.
At approximately 57,000 square
feet, the newest facility nearly triples
the company's parts inventory in
North America.
Designed for genuine Doosan
parts distribution and shipping, and
managed by DHL Supply Chain, the
center is initially stocking approximately 9,000 SKUs, with room to
expand inventory. The parts can
be shipped to service Doosan
equipment-such as articulated dump
trucks, crawler excavators, material
handlers, mini excavators, log loaders
and wheel loaders-throughout the
Western U.S. and Canada.

Southeastern
Equipment/Kobelco
southeasternequip.com;
kobelcousa.com
Southeastern Equipment Co. sold
the 1,000th excavator manufactured
by Kobelco Construction Machinery
USA's South Carolina plant to North
Canton, Ohio, A Crano Excavating
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