• Terex, the company that invented the front-discharge mixer truck, says demand for new vehicles is beginning to emerge after the recession, and it will reopen its assembly line this year.
• The company is redesigning the truck to meet EPA emission standards. It plans a prototype this fall and production in the fourth quarter.
• A 65-vehicle order from a Midwestern concrete producer was what the company needed to reopen the assembly line that it shut down in 2011.

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In 1972, a group of Midwestern ready mix concrete producers banded together to manufacture a revolutionary new ready mix truck design, forming the Terex legacy brand Advance Mixer. ...