Volume 12 Issue 4 December 2001

Volume 12 Issue 4 December 2001
Inside This Issue: New Multi-Purpose Building Subdrain/Sealcoat/Stabilization Stork News Concrete Sales Steady 2001 Golf Outing Flex Information Season Ends on Positive Note 2001 Salsa Winners News from Ames Fall in Ames MIS Happenings Accounting News Benefit Reminders Portable Plant - Newton Newton Commercial Asphalt Newton Milling Division Trucking Department Essay on America HR News Waterloo Area News Safety News Tribute to Harry Kilmer Evaluate Your Withholdings Parts News - Anti-freeze Tidbits D.O.T. Classes New Equipment - Top Priority Ames Ready Mix In Sympathy New Independence Plant A Lot to Be Thankful For WQI is Innovative! Zero to Hero in 60 Seconds Things We Like to Hear Wedding News WQI 6th Annual Bowling News WQI Sympathy		New Equipment Top Priority at Manatt's Jim Bim
	It doesn’t seem that long ago that Manatt’s managers sat in the conference room going over the equipment budget for the year 2001 and bingo the year has come and gone. The meeting for this coming year’s equipment purchases was recently held and again we will be over the $6,000,000.00 mark! One of the many reasons Manatt’s, Inc. is number one in heavy highway construction is due to their commitment to new equipment purchasing. This is evident given the kind of budgets we’ve seen over the past two years. Some of the equipment purchases approved for year 2002 will be the following: 1. W2100 Wirtgen milling machine - $470,000.00 2. Asphalt silo system for Malcom asphalt plant - $150,000 to $200,000.00 3. Cement tankers (5) - $56,000.00 ea. 4. Truck tractors (5) - $100,000.00 ea. 5. Bridgemaster mixer trucks (12) - $145,000.00 ea. 6. Used Komatsu 270 excavator - $130,000.00 7. Belt placer - $320,000.00 8. Misc. rollers (7) steel & rubber - $45,000.00 to 75,000.00 9. Stacking conveyors (2) - $75,000.00 to $120,000.00 10. IT loader backhoes (2) - $75,000.00 11. Misc. support vehicles & trailers 12. Chip spreader - $170,000.00 13. Trencher - $245,000.00 You can see by the above dollar amounts, the commitment Manatts is making for an upcoming construction season that is still up in the air. My best wishes to everyone in the Manatt construction family for a great Christmas and New Year holiday. I hope to see and talk to you in the 2002 construction season. Happy Holidays!