Equipped for success.

A company can have the dearest goals and most aggressive ambitions--but without the right tools, it's hard to put even the best business plans into action.

In any industry, it's essential to have the right equipment. This holds especially true in the construction and demolition recycling industry--a dynamic business that is growing more and more sophisticated with every passing year.

With every edition of the C&DR Equipment and Services Buyers' Guide, we hope the resulting product truly reflects the evolving market it serves. We strive to make this book relevant to industry veterans and startups alike by gathering all the information about C&D equipment and service providers into one simple, straightforward resource. Not all equipment is of the steel and hydraulic variety--it is our hope that this guide serves as a valuable tool itself to help you find the equipment to best serve your customers.

Like any piece of equipment, this guide must undergo regular maintenance. Every year, the content of this guide is reevaluated and updated with the intent to include the most current information possible, accounting for all the myriad changes that happened in the previous 12 months, including mergers, new locations, new phone numbers and new company contacts.

However, we as publishers are the first to admit that the C&D business and the equipment companies that serve it are growing and changing so rapidly that it can be hard to keep up. While it is our hope that the information in this guide represents the most accurate and current data available, we are not too proud to admit that we may have missed some.

With that admission in mind, we invite readers and suppliers alike to contact us if they spot a change we may have missed. If you spot outdated or incorrect information in any listing in this book, please let us know. In the same vein, if you work for or know of a company that serves the C&D recycling industry that we may have overlooked, please feel free to alert us to the omission as well. We are eager to correct any mistakes or omissions to make sure this guide is the most useful and accurate that we can offer.

Any such changes or omissions can be e-mailed directly to the associate editor at [e-mail] or faxed to my attention at [phone].

We hope this latest edition of the C&DR Equipment and Services Buyers' Guide serves as a useful day-to-day reference tool for you by putting hundreds of equipment and service providers specific to the C&D recycling industry at your fingertips. As with years past, any feedback including everything from updating listings to general suggestions on how we could improve this guide is more than welcome.