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Mike Rhoda has joined equipment manufacturer and distributor Sany America, Peachtree City, Ga., as CEO. He replaces Tim Frank, who resigned in October as chairman of the firm, the North and Central America unit of China-based Sany Heavy Industry Co. Rhoda was chief technology officer at Doosan Infracore Construction Equipment and also was president and CEO of Volvo Construction Equipment's excavator line. Frank joined Sany America in 2012. The firm, the fifth-largest global equipment maker, told China Daily US last month that it doubled its North American sales last year and boosted its dealer network there to 65% of the market, up from 40% in 2012. But the firm is embroiled in a patent infringement suit, filed in 2013 in U.S. federal court by rival Manitowoc Cranes LLC. In a statement last June, Sany rejected the firm's claims.