Topcon’s new robotic station built for prism tracking

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Aug 22, 2012

Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) has introduced the PS Series, a professional-grade robotic total station that uses Topcon’s PowerTrac technology to increase the prism tracking power. The system uses optics, laser system and advanced algorithms, to track a moving prism. The PS employs ...

Ray O’Connor promoted to Topcon managing executive officer

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jun 28, 2012

Ray O’Connor has been promoted to managing executive officer of Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS), has been promoted to company senior managing executive officer. He has also been named president of the newly formed Positioning Company division of Topcon Corporation. In 2010 ...

Product Spotlight

Better Roads Staff - May 07, 2012

Anywhere. Anytime. Any Device. Dexter + Chaney has launched a new, web-based version of Spectrum Construction Software. According to company president John Chaney, “The newest version of Spectrum represents a significant re-investment in our existing product line and sets a new ...

New Road Products

Better Roads Staff - Mar 21, 2012

EDITOR'S PICK Case Emissions-certified backhoes load up on features North America’s venerable backhoe brand, Case, has added another chapter to the storied history of what it has since 1957 called the “loader/backhoe.” Only 15 months after introducing the N Series models, Case announced ...

Topcon showing new machine technologies at World of Concrete

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jan 17, 2012

Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) will present an array of new machine control technologies, positioning tools and total stations at the World of Concrete trade show Jan. 24-27, in Las Vegas. The latest technologies in precision machine control for graders, ...

Topcon volunteers support Japan through TOGETHER program

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Dec 01, 2011

For Livermore, Calif.,-based Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS), a subsidiary of Topcon Corp., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, the amount of work needed for Japan to recover from the March 11, 2011 earthquake and ensuing tsunami disaster was fully realized by a ...

Topcon hires Matt Kohler as regional sales manager

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Oct 31, 2011

Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) has hired as a regional sales manager for the Construction Business Unit. Kohler has extensive knowledge of the construction industry, including experience in machine control sales, distributor management and sales channel development. “We are excited to have ...

Topcon buys major stake in Finnish company DynaRoad Oy

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jun 08, 2011

Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) has purchased a significant ownership interest in DynaRoad Oy, a software company located in Helsinki, Finland. DynaRoad develops project management software for civil engineering and infrastructure construction. Ivan Di Federico, TPS chief strategy officer, said, “Contractors and designers ...

Despite Japan earthquake, ‘Topcon’s operation never stops’

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Apr 04, 2011

Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) is working closely with Topcon Corporation in Tokyo and supporting efforts of all Topcon subsidiaries in response to the major earthquake and ensuing tsunami that hit Japan on March 11. In an official statement from Topcon Corporation ...

Topcon appoints Di Federico to exec committee

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Aug 05, 2010

Ivan Di Federico, who was recently named chief strategy officer of Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS), has been selected to join the Topcon Corporation executive committee for the Tokyo-based positioning business unit. Di Federico, formerly senior vice president for ...

Topcon to supply GNSS receivers for Anhui, China network

Tina Grady Barbaccia - Jun 23, 2010

Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) has been selected to supply GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) receivers and software for Anhui Province Continuously Operating Reference Station Network (AHCORS). The AHCORS network is designed to provide full coverage of Anhui Province of China with ...

Topcon acquires InlandGEO

Tina Grady Barbaccia - May 27, 2010

Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) announced on May 26 its acquistion of InlandGEO, one of Topcon’s top performing distributors. InlandGEO is headquartered in Madrid, Spain, and has four additional offices in Spain, two in Portugal and one in the Canary Islands. In ...

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