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Construction Equipments

The Constructor

Sometimes a bulldozer is used to push another piece of earthmoving equipment known as a "scraper" The towed Fresno Scraper, invented in 1883 by James Porteous, was the first design to enable this to be done economically, removing the soil from the cut and depositing it elsewhere on shallow ground (fill).

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

The cities of Fresno, Los Angeles, Santa Ana, San Francisco, Orange Cove, Parlier, and the counties of Imperial and Riverside have designated RCs, EZs or ECs. The utility tax on the consumption of electric by licensed manufacturers and food or agribusiness processors is reduced to 2 percent. The public utilities tax rate is 4.25

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