The Scoop: Tips for Renting the Right Mini Excavator
Approximately 30 percent of compact excavators in North America end up in rental fleets. Thomas Lee, director of product management at Doosan Infracore North America, provides the specifics: Mini ex total annual sales volume peaked at 74,682 units in…
Doosan Infracore North America Announces New Chief Executive Officer
Chris Jeong was recently named the new chief executive officer (CEO) at Doosan Infracore North America. He succeeds Edward Song, the previous CEO, who was promoted to global sales head of Hyundai Doosan Infracore in Korea. Jeong most recently served…
Booth Preview: Doosan Will Display Crawler and Mini Excavators at the 2023 ARA Show
Doosan Infracore North America will display a crawler excavator and two mini excavators targeted for rental customers during The American Rental Association Show in Orlando, Florida, February 11–15, 2023. The Doosan DX140LC-7 crawler excavator…
How to Pick a Mini Excavator + a Bunch of Excellent Options from Brands
Mini excavators are great machines for a wide variety of tasks, everything from excavating for underground utility installations to moving decorative rocks in a patio project to breaking up concrete in a demo job. Their compact size allows most of them…
John Deere Discusses Its New Partnership with Wacker Neuson to Build Mini Excavators Together
Compact excavators have become an American favorite. Let’s run the numbers. Compact or mini excavator sales in America are hovering around the 60,000-units-a-year mark, making it one of the most popular categories of earthmoving equipment. In a…
Doosan Introduces All-New Next-Generation Mini Excavators in North America
Doosan Infracore North America is introducing its all-new line of next-generation -7 Series mini excavators in the United States and Canada. The initial launch includes four models, with more mini excavators to be announced in the coming months. These…
Electrifying Excavators: Some Mini Ex Manufacturers Are Turning to Electric. Should You?
Mini excavators are all the rage right now, and it makes total sense. These small but mighty machines can access any jobsite (including hard-to-reach spots) and tackle everything from a patio renovation to installing a new water line. Their power and…
The Swing of Things: Which Tail Swing Is the Right Configuration for Your Mini Excavator?
Today, mini excavators are one of America’s most popular compact machine categories because of their ability to work in confined spaces from fenced-in backyards to congested roadways. Minis weren’t always so popular. Two decades ago, those first units…
The Ex Factors: Here Are the Major Trends Pushing Compact Excavator Purchases in 2022
Small excavator tool carriers come in a wide variety of colors on dealer and rental lots these days. Cat black and yellow. Kubota orange. Yanmar’s new bright red architecture. Last time I counted, there were nearly 20 distinct brands in the American…
Just Right: Find the Perfect Mini Excavator for You with These Buying Tips
Remember the tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and her quest to find everything that’s just right? Well, buying a mini excavator can feel a bit like that — scoping out different brands, sizes and options to find a machine that’s just right for your…
Hyundai Heavy Industries to Establish Big Data Platform for Its Core Businesses, Like It Does with Hyundai Doosan Infracore
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) Group will build a big data platform for the group’s core businesses, including shipbuilding, offshore engineering and its construction division, in partnership with Palantir Technologies Inc., an American big…
Editor at Large: Doosan Relaunches Mini Excavator Line at Tucson Media Event, Highlights Hyundai Acquisition
Arizona soil can be unyielding earth. The sunbaked clay and caliche of the Sonoran Desert is certainly not kind to bucket teeth, yet Doosan’s new DX35Z-7 mini excavator cut and spread Arizona dirt with relative ease. The newly designed, not-yet-released,…