Everyone plays a role in preventing damages to underground utility infrastructure. AEM continues to support the Common Ground Alliance (CGA) and asks its members to help spread awareness of the need to...
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Tips for Effective Utility Locating
Locators are an essential part of plumbing repair work because they enhance safety and save time by minimizing delays. Locators quickly and...
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Brawny Jetter Packs a Punch to Break Up Tough Blockages
A two-building, Aberdeen, South Dakota, office complex suffered constant sewer line backups.
Local topography forced the facility’s new 300-foot sewer line into an...
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How to Extend Safety Culture to Subcontractors
Driving home from a family vacation in Central Oregon, safety culture was the farthest thing from my mind. A construction zone funneled westbound...
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Small Device Proves to be Strong Vehicle Theft Deterrent
Even though it happened a decade ago, Gerhard Kiessling still vividly remembers when thieves stole a Ford F-350 extended cargo van owned...
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Keep Your Hands To Yourself: Use Voice Recognition To Your Advantage
With improving voice recognition technology and a broader range of compatible devices available, our population is adopting smarter ways of engaging with...
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Working Safer and More Productively in Concrete
When third-generation plumber Rami Hinawi set out on his own to create his successful company, Plumbing Service Solutions, Inc., after being in...
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JM-1000 Mini-Jet Stainless Steel Braid Hoses Boost Performance and Cleaning Power
General Pipe Cleaners has enhanced the performance and cleaning power of its popular JM-1000 Mini-Jet with stainless steel braid hoses — a...
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Resolve Problems Quickly with Efficient Team Communication
When obstacles are overcome and good work gets done on time and under budget, that’s a great day. When an unexpected problem...
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Using Your Hot-Water Jetting Equipment for Sanitation
The coronavirus and COVID-19 certainly caught the world we were all living in off-guard. While lives and businesses have been turned upside...
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How to Maintain a Sound, Long-Term Marketing Plan
Every business owner wants to make more money — and many of us rely on marketing and advertising to do so. We...
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Industry News: August 2021
RIDGID hosts local high school students for career programRIDGID, a part of Emerson’s professional tools portfolio, hosted students from Elyria Catholic High...
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Triple Play! Plumbing Pro Scores With General Drain Cleaner, Jetter and Camera
Reputation, reliability and results mean much to Vincent “Vinnie” MacDonald’s Boston-area drain cleaning business. So do the right tools.“We tackle really tough...
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RIDGID Celebrates 25 Years as Industry Leader of Diagnostic Tool Solutions
RIDGID, part of Emerson’s Professional Tools portfolio, is celebrating a major milestone in the industry: a quarter of a century as a...
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Product News: August 2021
Vermeer QuickFire HD connection systemVermeer’s QuickFire HD connection system for utility horizontal directional drills uses two heavy-duty roll pins to secure the...
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Communication Over Isolation: How Crews Stay Connected, Safer And More Productive
Contractors and municipal workers who keep our streets and sewers operational are experiencing isolation on the job because of the nature of their...
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Septic Pumping Offers Growth Opportunities
Several years after Julius Voss established Julius Voss Plumbing & Construction in Cleveland, Mississippi, featured in the August 2021 issue, the entrepreneur...
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Managing Non-English Speaking Employees
We’re in the middle of a labor shortage.
With more jobs than workers, companies are increasingly willing to hire anyone who’s willing to...
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Compact Hydrovacs Handle Strict Canadian Road Weight Limits
Officials in Ontario, Canada, take road weight violations very seriously. Fines for overweight vehicles start at $5 per 100 kilograms (about 220...

























