Chris Ahring founded Apex Recycling Services in 1997 with a one-ton truck, a storage unit and an idea: to focus his business on buying automotive cores from local auto wreckers and reselling them to parts purchasers. After more than 20 years, he is staying true to his vision while diversifying and growing strategically to position his company to be the wrecker’s best possible partner.

Copper is one of the most common metals found in homes, businesses, e11en your smartphone. More than half of the U.S. copper output comes from Arizona mines. When mines need earthwork projects completed, they turn to companies like Native Environmental.

New Doosan Mini Excavators - Plenty of power, a small footprint and more maneuverability all add up to exceptional productivity.

Jerry Savoie is an interesting guy. Learn why Jerry chooses Doosan equipment for all of his needs on his alligator farm.

Through one conversation from a stranger, Alstat Wood Products of Du Quoin, Illinois, discovered its largest business line.

New from Doosan: an easy-to-transport crawler excavator that’s ideal for light excavation such as large landscaping projects and digging residential basements or commercial building footings.

St. Augustine, Florida, is lovingly known as The Ancient City. Residents enjoy a richly cultivated historic district and significant landmarks. It has maintained its integrity and looks almost identical to the way it did 30 years ago – with the help of people like Arthur “Artie” Allen and his crew at A.W.A. Contracting, Inc.

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.

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.

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?