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We are moving ever closer to a world where Digital Twins developed to aggregate, manage, analyze, visualize, and predict information for today’s smart cities, manufacturi...
Trimble has announced Trimble® Roadworks 2D Paving Control Platform for asphalt pavers, an automatic screed control system that can improve the accuracy and productivity...
Bollinger Motors announces plans to produce and sell the all-electric B2 Chassis Cab. The Bollinger B2CC is the world’s first and only Class 3 all-electric chassis-cab tr...
TRL, the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory, has recently authored a report – commissioned by IAM Roadsmart, FIA Road Safety and Rees Jeffreys Road Fund – into the impact...
The World Economic Forum and top CEO’s from the world’s largest construction and infrastructure companies have written an open letter to local governments aro...
Yanmar Compact Equipment EMEA has announced a limited-time sales initiative across the UK and Ireland, to make purchasing state-of-the-art plant equipment simple, accessi...
After shutting down production at nearly 100 Bosch locations worldwide this month, the company is systematically preparing for a gradual ramp-up of manufacturing. “We wan...
With the Call4Solutions Service, MB Crusher helps companies develop new business opportunities. After listening to companies all over the world, MB Crusher has developed...
Committed to meeting the complex challenge of providing critical construction supplies amid an unprecedented time for industry, Aggregate Industries is proud to announce...
Hyundai Construction Equipment Europe (HCEE) continues the roll-out of the A-series with the HX300AL, a 30-tonne Stage V-compliant crawler excavator. This new machine is...
Volvo Construction Equipment’s (Volvo CE) Load Assist is the umbrella term for a series of machine control applications that are designed specifically for Volvo CE wheel...
Plans for a UK-built, 3,000-strong hydrogen bus fleet across the country, have been revealed by JCB heir Jo Bamford in a move he hopes can lead the nations’ economic reco...
Building on the success of the Cat® M Series Compact Wheel Loader range, Caterpillar has added three new models to the lineup, each with significant design enhancements:...
VolvoCE reduced swing Excavators a hit in Somerset J D Pope and Sons Ltd has owned and operated a succession of Volvo wheeled and tracked excavators since purchasing thei...
A coalition of leading researchers and scientists have released the findings of a year-long study into the impacts of sourcing metals to produce battery cathodes and wiri...
Carron Valley Plant Ltd is a forestry ground preparation business based in Dumfries in Scotland. Established some 30-years ago, the three-man firm, headed up by founder W...
While flexible electronics have been around for years, either as flexible PCBs or genuinely printed electronics, there has always been a trade-off between flexibility and...
Mecalac, a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of compact construction equipment for urban environments, has opened a new 14,000-square foot facilit...
Campbell Contracts Ltd, a family-owned and managed business headquartered in Tempo, a small village on the outskirts of Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland,...
COVID-19 is impacting the world and a change in mobility habits is inevitable both in short term and longer term, making knowledge transfer now even more crucial. The Int...
Honda Motor Europe is expanding its battery recycling partnership with SNAM (Société Nouvelle d’Affinage des Métaux) to advance the sustainable usability of its end-of-li...
Haver & Boecker Niagara, Haver & Boecker’s new mineral processing brand, offers the Niagara F-Class Portable Plant. The circular motion inclined vibrating screen...
Concrete pumps used in the construction of tall buildings need a boom structure that is strong and reliable while also striving for light weight. Turkish concrete pump ma...
Dusty Alexander, CEO & President of Global Shop Solutions ERP/MRP Software takes a look at the current situation: “We’re in a different kind of war against the...
HS2, the planned high-speed rail line in Britain linking London and Birmingham over a length of 225 km in Phase One, continues to gain momentum. The client, High Speed Tw...
Norwegian company H&K Sandnes is an active user of Hitachi’s remote monitoring system, Global e-Service, for a wide range of its Hitachi excavators. The Larvik-based...
JCB Joe responds to Coronavirus with PPE manufacturing initiative JCB and a team of volunteer employees have set up mini-production lines to come to the aid of the nation...
Two new Cat Next Generation wheeled excavators, the Cat M314 and the M318 feature multiple design updates that boost machine efficiency and lower long-term operating cost...
Red Stag Materials is run by of a dedicated team of industry professionals with over 90 years of experience in UK infrastructure and the highway maintenance sector. They...
An exciting project with the potential to be replicated at other branches: Remondis’ dismantling center in Lünen has set itself a target going forward of working ex...
Manufor Fondations is underpinning the foundations of the “Knibbeler” apartment block at Saint-Saulve near Valenciennes in Northern France. An interesting but...
Kubota’s journey started in 1890, by manufacturing Japan’s first iron pipelines for waterworks. Its founder, Gonshiro Kubota, laid the foundations of a compan...
For the fifth year in a row, construction industry insights provider EquipmentWatch has recognized Volvo Construction Equipment machines with its Lowest Cost of Ownership...
Built with the next generation cab, powerful engine meeting the current emissions standards and automatic features to elevate productivity, the new Cat® 725 articulated t...
The average wind turbine generates 6 million kilowatts of energy in a year. That’s enough to power 1,500 households. Entrepreneurs Kerem Deveci and Sarp Papatya have inte...
and Designwerk have developed the first fully electric truck mixers with 10 and 12 m³ drums on a 5-axle chassis. The first operations are planned for our customers Holcim...
UNESCO, in partnership with IBM and SAP, has launched the CodeTheCurve Hackathon to support young innovators, data scientists and designers across the world to develop di...
Building on the same base machine platform as their successful predecessors, the new Caterpillar D1, D2 and D3 Next Generation small dozers feature styling changes, techn...
JCB is re-starting production at a factory closed as a result of the Coronavirus crisis in order to join the national effort to manufacture ventilators. JCB received a di...
Zeelo, an innovative transport firm which provides personalised bus services for commuters at companies such as Jaguar Land Rover and Ocado has today launched a critical-...
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