No major U.S. city has suffered more economically in the last 70 years than Detroit, Michigan. What was once a thriving automotive manufacturing center with a robust middle class has fallen on hard times. The good news is companies, like Blue Star, Inc., are helping the city and local organizations remove blighted homes to help improve property values.

A queue of old barges and tugboats idle and rock gently in the Fraser River south of beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. It could be an idyllic scene – but this is no watercolor painting. These old vessels are lined up to be demolished and turned into scrap metal by skilled operators and the hydraulic power of two Doosan® powerhouse machines: a Doosan DX530LC-5 crawler excavator outfitted with a hydraulic shear and a DX300MH-5 material handler with a Doosan grapple.

Raymond Hixson started running a dragline crane at his family’s sand and gravel quarry when he was 17 years old. He’s 75 now. As the next generation took over Hixson Sand & Gravel in Garrett, Indiana, they faced a common dilemma for rural dragline crane owners: How do you find and hire an experienced dragline crane operator?

Matt Quinnell is just 29 years old yet this heavy equipment operator has logged thousands of hours in excavators. The Minnesota native currently works in the family business to build artistic boulder retaining walls in the growing Minneapolis suburbs. For Matt, building the walls isn’t work; it’s a fun challenge.

For nearly 200 years, the logging industry has played a vital role in Washington. Approximately half of the state is covered in forests, with 21 million acres of forested land available, as reported by the Washington State Department of Commerce. So many trees mean local loggers – like John Glacken, owner of Dapaul Chip, LLC – are staying busy.

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It may come as a surprise to some, but the state of Arkansas is covered in woodlands. In fact, more than 19 million acres of forests, consisting of 42 percent oak and 29 percent pine, cover the state according to the Arkansas Economic Development Commission.

A self-described workaholic, Mike Salinas has never been afraid of a little hard work. As a child, Mike was an aspiring entrepreneur who set up a shoe shining business outside local restaurants. As he polished the dress shoes of local business professionals for cash tips, he also picked up valuable business tips. What he heard inspired him to start his own company approximately 33 years ago.

Building a commercial site preparation and excavation company from the ground up means making a commitment to dig deeper, match people to their best fit and sell what sets you apart from the competition. When the husband and wife team of David and Nancy Lauzon started Lauzon Contracting, dividing the duties between themselves and two other employees made staffing and fleet decisions simple. And, it didn’t take long to stand out from the crowd.

There’s an expression that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. For Jon Wybar, it’s been a gritty truth for the past 14 years. Watching tons of construction waste headed for the landfill would bring a sigh of relief from contractors anxious to get their jobsites cleaned up, but for him it sparked an environmentally-friendly business idea.