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Charles Machine Works businesses include Ditch
Witch, Subsite Electronics, DW/TXS, HammerHead,
Radius HDD, American Augers and Trencor.
In September, Minnesota-based Toro announced
it had decided to wind down its Toro-branded large
HDD and riding trencher categories and realigning
the organizational structure for its underground
construction division to combine certain aspects
of Ditch Witch, American Augers and Trencor.
"We continue to be very excited about the
expertise, knowledge and understanding of the
underground business that the Charles Machine
Works companies bring to our organization,"
said Rick Rodier, group vice president,
Construction Businesses.

Weldbend, Boltex Win
False-Claims Lawsuit
Against Ulma Forja
A jury returned a verdict in favor of Weldbend and
Boltex on all counts in a lawsuit by the American
carbon steel flange manufacturers against a Spanish
company, Ulma Forja - part of the Mondragon
Corp. - and its U.S. subsidiary, Ulma Piping.
The lawsuit accused Ulma of falsely claiming that
it normalized its flanges for use in American pipelines, refineries and chemical plants in accordance
with American Society of Testing and Materials
(ASTM) A105 standards.
It further stated that Ulma stamped these flanges
"A105N", issued documentation with each flange
stating they had undergone the normalization
process specified by the ASTM and continued to
ship the flanges into the United States when testing
showed the flanges were not normalized.
Chicago-based Weldbend and Boltex of Houston
became suspicious several years ago when Ulma
began offering supposedly heat-treated ("normalized") flanges to U.S. customers at undercutting
prices. Plaintiffs sued Ulma in 2017, after metallurgical testing suggested that Ulma's flanges had not
been normalized and were not in conformance with
industry standards as claimed by Ulma's advertising.
"I want to thank the jury for recognizing Ulma's
unfair and deceptive practices that have gone
on for years," said James Coulas Jr., president of
Weldbend. "American companies like Weldbend
and Boltex can compete with anyone in the world
on a fair and level playing field."
The trial, which began on Sept. 16, was presided
over by Judge Andrew S. Hanen in the United States
District Court for the Southern District of Texas,
Houston Division.

Report Blames R.I. Winter Gas
Outage on Low Pipe Pressure
Rhode Island public utilities regulators say a
natural gas outage that affected more than
7,000 customers last winter was caused by low
pressure in a pipeline.
The 74-page Division of Public Utilities and
Carriers report released in late October blamed
the low pressure on high demand for gas driven
by low temperatures; failure of a power system
at a liquefied natural gas storage and
vaporization facility; and a malfunctioning valve
at a meter station.
The agency says it will oppose efforts by
National Grid to recover $25 million in costs
related to the outage from ratepayers.
Thousands of residents of Newport and
Middletown went without gas or heat for days
last January.
National Grid in a statement said it didn't
agree with everything in the report but has
been working hard to learn from the outage.

NY Governor Threatens
to Revoke Utility's License,
AGA Responds
National Grid said it is confident it will be able
to address concerns over gas supplies raised
by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who
threatened to revoke the British firm's license
to operate if it failed to supply gas to more than
1,100 customers.
In May, the company issued a moratorium on
gas hook ups citing a lack of supply after the state
of New York rejected a permit for the pipeline.
National Grid has been at odds with Governor
Cuomo over the construction of the Constitution
pipeline, a $1 billion natural gas pipeline being
built by Williams. The pipeline would carry
400 million cubic feet per day of natural gas
from New Jersey to New York.
The American Gas Association, however, was
critical of the demand. AGA President and CEO
Karen Harbert responded that, by vetoing pipelines
and denying access to natural gas, "Gov. Cuomo is

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