Plant and Equipment News in Construction and Infrastructure
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When a piece of construction equipment is idling, not only is it not contributing to production, it’s also costing your profitability. Increased fuel costs Fuel is a majo...
Following the announcement last year that GAP Hire Solutions had transformed its business with a BigChange to mobile operations, GAP has now completed the BigChange roll-...
Confident in the strength and long-lasting design of its machines, John Deere is extending the eight-year/20,000-hour power electronic components warranty on the 944K Hyb...
People living near a major Highways England roads project have benefitted from new quieter roadworks as hydraulic piling equipment was used to force steel sheets into the...
Yanmar Group has announced the completion of its acquisition of compact equipment manufacturer ASV Holdings Inc. (ASV), a designer and manufacturer of renowned compact tr...
Keeping machines up and running – and earning – is of utmost importance and here are five of the most common unnecessary maintenance issues that affect machine downtime a...
A 150 EC-B 8 Litronic PT Flat-Top crane is the centrepiece of a climate research project in Hölstein near Basel: Currently a simulation is carried out there to find out w...
Following a successful six-months as part of the Yanmar Compact Equipment Europe (CEE) UK and Ireland dealer network, MTS Plant has expanded its territory across southern...
With the arrival of Stage V requirements, many manufacturers have simply changed their engines to achieve the necessary particulate matter, particulate number and NOX tar...
“The proof of the pudding will be in the eating,” says Tony Iles, Managing Director of Tonic Construction as the company chooses Volvo excavators for the very first time....
as global markets for construction equipment and agricultural machinery remained strong, the company announced today. Staffordshire-based J C Bamford Excavators Ltd revea...
Caterpillar has announced today the release of 16 new Cat® D3 Series Skid Steer Loader (SSL) and Compact Track Loader (CTL) models. These new machines advance the D and D...
Fourteen-year-old Lance Matheson isn’t your typical teenager. He runs his own demolition company, Sage Demolition and Land Clearing, near Salt Lake City with help from hi...
With 10,000+ items to sell—up 31% year over year—Ritchie Bros. has extended its September auction to five days. By the end of the day on September 14, every item will be...
The Mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street has hailed JCB as an innovative ‘world leader’ in engineering as it goes into full production with its first electric digger. A...
Mayotte is an island of 250,000 people that is part of the Comoros archipelago of islands off southeast Africa. With sandy beaches, coconut trees and one of the largest l...
There aren’t enough hours in a day. Every sealcoat operator, manager, and company president has found themselves thinking this at one point or another. Even without unexp...
McCormack Demolition, based near Belfast, Northern Ireland, has just taken receipt of the first Stage V CASE machine sold in Ireland. The CASE CX90D excavator was prepare...
From blowing up balloons to powering roller coasters, there are numerous uses for an air compressor in both industry and home-use. Within the air gun category, there are...
Marking an industry first, Costain and SWARCO have collaborated to develop and install the next generation of digital road message signs. On behalf of Highways England, t...
The new CESAR initiative, helping site managers and others to identify the engine emissions stage compliance of individual machines in environmentally sensitive areas, re...
VolvoCE offers many new fuel efficiency technologies and services to help companies reduce spending and become more environmentally friendly in the process. Fuel is one o...
Metso Shaorui introduces their first range of mobile crushing and screening equipment especially designed for the price and quality conscious mid-market segment. Utilizin...
The New Zealand crane operator Hi Lift Cranes has acquired an MK 88 Plus mobile construction crane, making it the first ever Liebherr mobile construction crane in New Zea...
Designed for the toughest and most demanding work sites, the new John Deere Class Production Class L-Series loaders offer customers the power and comfort they need on the...
Over the course of three years and many challenges of nerve and knowledge, more than 3,200 technicians from across the globe are whittled down to a team of just three vic...
RSP, the UK’s leading manufacturer of suction excavator systems has launched a new training and testing facility at their UK headquarters. The company was launched in the...
This year’s Black Isle Show proved an unprecedented success for Highland-based Chris Knight Plant Sales. Exhibiting a number of models from Yanmar’s compact equipment ran...
Application engineer Stefan Pettersson is Volvo CE Sales Region EMEA’s resident expert on total cost of ownership. Below we pick his brains to find out how the company an...
The Liebherr Group is present at Finland´s largest trade fair for construction machinery Maxpo, which is held from 5 to 7 September in Hyvinkää. On stand A 60, measuring...
MAJOR, a leading global manufacturer of high-performance wire screening media, introduces a new crown curve calculation and updated crown curve adaptors. This addition of...
Oil is the lifeblood of a machine. Regular checks and oil analysis help monitor its health, which is vital for maintaining maximum uptime and and minimum total cost of ow...
The Construction Equipment Association (CEA) confirms that it is looking forward to the formation of a new national police resource to co-ordinate the fight against plant...
Ritchie Bros. has been conducting auctions in Canada for more than 60 years. Next week the company will hold its largest-ever Manitoba auction, selling 1,250+ equipment i...
During the use of a Liebherr MK 88 Plus in the city centre of Mainz, the spontaneity of the crane driver and the flexibility of the mobile construction crane were essenti...
A Portuguese limestone supplier, Filstone Natural SA, has added a Hitachi ZW310-6 wheel loader to its fleet to help it maintain the highest levels of productivity at its...
Tom Macfarlane started his own business, Trueline Midlands, in 2015 at the age of 25 after his previous employer decided he was too young for a directorship, despite his...
Bromley based Standard Plant Hire Ltd has added ten Volvo fourteen tonne excavators to its plant fleet for the first time heralding its entry into hiring larger machines...
Designed with manoeuvrability and efficiency in mind, the Yanmar V80 compact wheel loader is easy to handle, even in challenging conditions. Fitted with a powerful Stage...
KINSHOFER, a leading global manufacturer of high-quality excavator and loader crane attachments, offers a line of robust, cylinderless re-handling clamshell buckets for l...
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