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Caterpillar Discontinues Room and Pillar Products Caterpillar, Inc. announced it is pursuing strategic alternatives, including a possible divestiture, for its room and pillar products. The company will also discontinue production of track drills. The room and pillar underground mining products under strategic review include continuous miners, feeder breakers, coal haulage systems, highwall miners, roof bolters, as well as utility and diesel vehicles. While under review, Caterpillar will stop taking new orders. Production of track drills has also been discontinued, and no new orders will be taken. The company and its dealers remain committed to existing customers and will support those room and pillar and track drill fleets currently in operation. W O S IN H WS H ’ T E NE Skanska, a leading construction and project development firm, announced new leadership for Skanska Infrastructure Development (Skanska ID) with the promotions of Johan Henriksson to business unit president and Magnus Eriksson to executive vice president for North America. Additional announcements from Mowery and GRL Engineers, Inc. are online now. Visit worldwidedrillingresource.info/Whos1.pdf Send your Who’s in the News to: promotions@worldwidedrillingresource.com Henriksson Eriksson Breaking News 13 WorldWide Drilling Resource ® OCTOBER 2016