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Article: Milling machines: users want power, utility and greater reliability. (Paving Technology '89)
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- February 15, 1989
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Milling Machines: Users Want Power, Utility And Greater Reliability
The character of the market for milling machines is changing. Big milling contractors are encountering stiffer competition, and the price they can receive per square yard is down. They want machines to make them more competitive. And as a growing number of governmental agencies and asphalt paving contractors add milling machines to their fleets, small-machine development is proceeding at a faster pace.
A rapidly growing market for milling machines today, according to Jim Walton, president of Wirtgen America, is the addition of these machines to governmental agency fleets. Pavement ...