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Local authorities in England and Wales are running an ageing, weather-battered network on money that never quite reaches the work. The Asphalt Industry Alliance’s 2...
Network Plus has committed to fitting RodRadar’s Live Dig Radar across more than 200 machines in its repair and maintenance fleet, a multi-year programme that moves...
SSA Marine and the Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport have commissioned a second Liebherr LHM 550 hybrid mobile harbour crane, supported by a US$1.6 million sta...
Komatsu has spent nearly two decades proving that heavy machines can run themselves. Its FrontRunner system put the first commercial autonomous haul trucks into mines in...
A single compact track loader arriving on a roadworks site near Brescia would not normally register as market news. Gambara Asfalti, a paving and asphalt contractor of fo...
The New Generation ECR355 arrives in a market defined less by weak demand than by the shortage of people available to meet it. When Volvo Group Japan handed the ceremonia...
A β¬90 million senior debt facility for roughly 900 standard freight wagons would, on its own, barely register against the scale of European infrastructure finance. The tr...
Trimble has made its construction financial software available to the smallest customers it has ever formally courted, and the significance sits less in the product than...
The most commercially significant thing about the Loadsensing G7 Digital Data Logger is not its specification sheet. It is what the device says about where value is movin...
When Procore Technologies agreed to pay approximately $845 million in cash for DroneDeploy, it was not really buying drones. The transaction reads on the surface as a rea...
Every day, millions of drivers obey the speed limit. They receive no recognition, no reward and rarely even a second thought, while almost every pound spent on road enfor...
Every year, hundreds of thousands of crashes occur at road intersections in the United States, and a disproportionate share are the side-impact collisions, commonly calle...
A 150-metre strip of National Highway 1 in central Viet Nam would not normally register as market intelligence. Yet the pilot documented in a recent Asian Development Ban...
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has signed the first phase of a financing package worth up to USD1.5 billion for the Istanbul North Rail Crossing Project, and wh...
One hundred years ago the construction equipment industry crossed a threshold it never crossed back over. Steam shovels, cable excavators and the first crawler dozers rep...
Crews in rural Guadalajara spent the third week of July 2026 working a fire that had burned more than 32,000 hectares across a landscape where roughly 90 per cent of the...
For close to two decades, construction telematics has been sold on visibility. Fleet owners were promised they would finally know where their machines were, how hard they...
Twenty passenger cars circulating around Spanish filling stations would not ordinarily register as an industrial story. The six-month pilot launched in early July 2026 by...
Empa’s contribution to the European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals reached its halfway point this summer with a working prototype of somethi...
The most consequential item in Procore’s 23 July Digital Coworker announcement was not the agent count. It was Skills, a facility arriving across all packages in Au...
A 400 metre sewer is not, on the face of it, the sort of project that moves markets. In the historic centre of Treviso, the works were delivered by the successful tendere...
A research project costing a fraction of an enterprise software licence has just demonstrated something the construction technology market has been slow to price properly...
The most commercially interesting thing about the monitoring system Hottinger Brüel & Kjær has installed beneath Gothenburg is not what it prevented, but what it perm...
Stevens Equipment Rental has taken delivery of its 1000th new machine, and the choice of asset says more about the direction of the UK plant market than the milestone its...
Six weeks after Epiroc elevated its long-running relationship with Ericsson into a global go-to-market alliance for private LTE and 5G, the Swedish equipment group’...
The second round of Liebherr Power Deals, running from July 2026, looks at first glance like a conventional dealer incentive programme. Read the structure rather than the...
The African Development Bank Group’s Board of Directors approved β¬205 million on 8 July for the Rail Infrastructure Development Support Project, known by its French...
Danfoss signed a definitive agreement on 9 July 2026 to acquire Alfagomma, the Vimercate-based manufacturer of hoses and fittings, and the transaction will fold roughly E...
DJI’s disclosure that it moved 10,073 kg of cargo between Everest Base Camp and Camp 1 during the spring 2026 climbing season is being reported as a mountaineering...
Trade association partnerships rarely move markets, but the memorandum of understanding signed between Enginuity and the Construction Equipment Association arrives at a m...
Kilmac Ltd. has taken delivery of six Trimble SPS720 total stations, six Trimble R780 GNSS smart antennas and six Trimble TSC710 data collectors running Trimble Siteworks...
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles opened UK order books on 21 July for the first plug-in hybrid version of the Transporter, priced from Β£38,155 excluding VAT and offered in...
A machine may be purchased once, but it consumes, wears, moves, communicates, breaks down, gets repaired, is refinanced and eventually changes owners across a working lif...
The construction machinery business tends to judge a trade show long before its doors open, and the signal that matters most is not the visitor forecast but the exhibitor...
The signal from Bangalore this month was less about ambition and more about arrival. ARC Advisory Groupβs 24th India Forum, staged on 9 and 10 July 2026 under the banner...
P&M Excavations Builds a Competitive Edge on a Decade of Trimble Machine Control A family-run civil engineering contractor from County Tyrone has spent ten years prov...
When Develon returns to steinexpo this September, the more revealing story is not the size of its stand but what the machines standing on it say about where quarry and co...
The completion of tunnelling beneath the River Elbe has removed one of the most technically demanding obstacles facing Germanyβs SuedLink electricity transmission program...
The strategic partnership between Hitachi Construction Machinery and Pronto points towards a more commercially accessible model for mine automation, one designed around t...
Japanβs latest wave of artificial intelligence investment matters because it is moving beyond isolated software trials and into the machinery, factories, transport system...
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