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Traffic management vehicle specialist Acklea is increasing production of its plastic-bodied 7.2t commercial vehicles as demand for more lightweight, fuel-efficient and lo...
The first Hitachi ZX130-7 medium excavator in Europe has been purchased by the specialist groundworks and infrastructure contractor MV Kelly. The impressive new model was...
The installation of the pipelines is carried out in several stages. In the first step, civil engineering prepares the trench. Once that is done, the 613 E telescopic craw...
Winter maintenance equipment specialist Econ Engineering has added the first MirrorCam-equipped Mercedes-Benz to the fleet of gritters that local authorities and others w...
All Traffic Products, based in Willenhall in the West Midlands, is a start-up business supplying steel tubes, brackets and road signage fittings to large construction con...
New look Bobcat S450 Loader charges ahead in the MEA regions Bobcat has launched a new version of the company’s market-leading S450 radius lift path skid-steer loader, in...
Terex Trucks works hard to ensure its staff, customers and contractors get home safely to their families at the end of every working day. After four consecutive years of...
The recent addition of the GARAGE BEAM SYSTEM to ULMA Construction’s portfolio simplifies and reduces concrete construction costs. It is designed explicitly for cas...
Global geospatial mapping specialist, GeoSLAM, has expanded its mining offering, building on its world-leading reputation in the sector to provide advanced underground mi...
Liebherr has sold its 2000th 34 K fast-erecting crane to Mathis Bau AG. The Swiss construction and transport company is a long-standing customer of the construction machi...
Connected solutions are getting smarter by the day. While you are working hard on the job site, hundreds of thousands of data points are doing their own job quietly in th...
The paving of a road tunnel under the Kriegstrasse in Karlsruhe was carried out under stringent constraints. To reduce emissions, the contractor was required to use machi...
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced ANYbotics is equipping its autonomous mobile robots with Velodyne’s Puck™ lidar sensors. ANYbotics robots provide industrial o...
Caterpillar’s new generation of Primary and Secondary Pulverizers feature industry-leading technology to deliver up to 52% faster cycle times, producing more tons-per-lit...
The impact of Storm Gloria from 17-25 January 2020 has left visible damage still to the Trabucador Bar on the coast of the Tarragona province in Catalonia in north-easter...
Vayyar Imaging, the global leader in 4D imaging radar, today launched Walabot DIY 2, the next generation of its award-winning visual stud finder which, for the first time...
Working together to rapidly innovate in support of carbon reduction targets, Komatsu and several of its customers have formed the Komatsu Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Alliance. T...
With the construction industry under pressure to maximise its recovery and act on climate change, Shell has introduced its refreshed portfolio of Shell Naturelle biodegra...
China continues to be the biggest Concrete market in the world and the trend doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon, the implementation of China’s 14th Five-Year P...
Europe is home to many rail, road, and canal tunnels. With rail travel being a greener mode of transport, the region will see more tunnelling projects come about in the n...
Sany, a leading manufacturer of the construction equipment and heavy machinery space, has become the world’s number one company in excavator sales by selling 98,705 excav...
Doosan Infracore Europe has launched the new DX140W-7 and DX160W-7 Stage V compliant wheeled excavators. These new ‘7’ models provide significantly higher performance in...
Doosan Bobcat North America, a global leader in the compact equipment industry, today held a ground-breaking ceremony to commemorate the start of construction for a new $...
Everyone knows how working indoors presents multiple problems: it means facing everyday difficulties such as limited access, manoeuvring in a tight area, extensive coordi...
Article by Steve Perkins, Managing Director of Steve Perkins Associates, working with Elaine Gazzini, Programme & Technical Director at Connect Plus. Covid-19 has thr...
Komatsu Ltd. is set to launch the 20-ton PC200-10M0 hydraulic excavators under the CE series, designed for use in urban civil engineering applications, such as residentia...
The development of a national ‘digital twin’ of our roads which could revolutionise how we plan and manage the road network, is set to accelerate following a collaboratio...
The Department for Transport has awarded funding through Innovate UK to a consortium to lead the UK’s first ever study on the electrification of long range trucks with dy...
The main business area of Vitrac Obra Pública is earthmoving, from small excavations to large earthworks anywhere on the island of Mallorca, one of the Balearic Islands...
To say that the rental sector is gaining more and more volume compared to traditional sales today no longer surprises anyone. It is therefore important that the leading m...
machinery from Windhagen is in use all over the world today. In addition to Wirtgen cold milling machines, which are found on virtually every road rehabilitation construc...
Earthmoving professionals Collins Earthworks has invested in several new Caterpillar machines, including four new Cat® 637K Coal Bowl Scrapers with push/pull systems. Fin...
The U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association (USTMA), in partnership with the University of Missouri and The Ray, a non-profit proving ground for sustainable transportation te...
To help support its customers’ sustainability targets while prioritizing safety and productivity, Komatsu will focus on “creating value together” in its 48,000-square-foo...
Family run Civil Engineering company, McFadden (Civils) Ltd, has over 35 years of delivering successful engineering contractions nationally and internationally, including...
Trimble® connected construction specialist SITECH UK & Ireland has opened its new construction training facility in Norton Canes, Staffordshire. The training facility...
law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) launched its UK Freeports business sentiment report, representing the views of over 500 UK businesses in response to the Government’s...
While temperatures have been variable in the UK this summer, the UK’s ten warmest years on record have all occurred since 2002 and overall, the world is heating up;...
Komatsu is rolling out the wired electro-hydraulic excavator “PC78USE-11” to the domestic Japanese market, introducing a whole new category of construction eq...
Telent’s newly deployed Intelligent Transport System will provide a scalable and futureproof solution for councils and road authorities across the UK. Optima Hub remotely...
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