This category brings together commercially relevant news, industry signals and infrastructure intelligence, helping readers follow the people, projects, technologies and markets driving change across the sector.
John Deere has doubled the warranty period for eligible original equipment service and repair parts in the United States and Canada, extending coverage from 12 to 24 mont...
When Swedish safety technology company Mips acquired Koroyd for an initial €40 million in December 2025, it brought two complementary approaches to impact protection unde...
Chinese commercial vehicle manufacturer Foton is preparing to enter the British pick-up market in early 2027 with the Tunland, a double-cab model combining diesel mild-hy...
Japan’s Nittetsu Mining is working towards autonomous operation of large dump trucks at its Torigatayama Quarry Complex in Kochi Prefecture by 2033, as the country...
Hitachi Construction Machinery will become LANDCROS Corporation on 1 April 2027, completing a corporate transition that has been taking shape since the Japanese manufactu...
RSP UK Suction Excavators has marked its tenth anniversary with the retirement of industry veteran Nigel Gardener and a change in board involvement for Jens Graber, a fou...
PACCAR reported a 44% increase in net income for the third quarter of 2026, with stronger truck margins, record aftermarket parts revenue and improved financial services...
Mining contractor Mota-Engil Africa is set to modernise operations at three mines in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal following a €99.1 million financing agreement with the Euro...
Electric powertrains, hydrogen engines, fuel cells, robotics and machine intelligence are opening up new possibilities for construction equipment. The next generation may...
A fully equipped maintenance toolbox can weigh hundreds of kilograms before a technician has picked up a single spanner. In commercial vehicle depots, construction equipm...
ESAB has introduced a collaborative robotic welding system that can identify weld joints, generate welding paths and adjust its movements as conditions change. Known as R...
A compact excavator might spend eight hours digging trenches, but its profitability can depend on what happens before the first bucket touches the ground. If the machine...
Trimble is introducing a lower-cost configuration of its Earthworks 3D grade control system for excavators, using two DA2 GNSS receivers to make machine control more acce...
Why Construction Machinery Productivity Depends on Much More Than the Machine Two identical hydraulic excavators are working on separate earthmoving projects. Both have t...
Caterpillar has introduced three compact hydraulic excavators designed around the different demands of restricted access, machine stability and lifting performance. The n...
John Deere has introduced two SmartGrade box blade attachments for its 333 and 335 P-Tier compact track loaders, bringing integrated grade control to finish grading appli...
Volvo Trucks has introduced the all-new Volvo VNX for North American construction, vocational and heavy-haul operations, with gross combination weight ratings reaching 20...
Ritchie Bros. will extend its annual February Orlando heavy equipment auction from five to six days in 2027, following an event that attracted more than 19,500 registered...
In 1885, an American road inspector named J.D. Adams developed an improvement to the horse-drawn grader that remains recognisable on modern machines. Rather than keeping...
Billions of dollars’ worth of construction machinery, commercial vehicles and industrial assets change hands through RB Global’s marketplaces every year, prov...
In 1895, the British Army’s statutory allowance for each horse placed in civilian quarters was 10 lb of oats, 12 lb of hay and 8 lb of straw every day. A large work...
An 18-tonne forklift working around a steel yard, port or precast concrete plant presents a rather different electrification problem from a warehouse truck moving pallets...
Utility work places different demands on construction equipment from a conventional building or major infrastructure site. Machines may move repeatedly between small exca...
A Komatsu excavator working in Saudi Arabia presents few unusual mechanical challenges simply because it was built for an international market. Its diesel engine, hydraul...
John Deere is adding a new machine between its 35 P-Tier and 50 P-Tier compact excavators, targeting a particularly useful part of the market where digging performance, a...
Miller Plant Ltd has committed £1.7 million to a seven-machine Caterpillar fleet for civil engineering and infrastructure work across north-east Scotland, combining addit...
Selling a used excavator across borders was a considerably more cumbersome business when Mascus launched its first website in Helsinki in January 2001. Machinery dealers...
A one-tonne increase in payload does not sound particularly dramatic on a machine already capable of carrying more than 40 tonnes. Repeated hundreds of times through a qu...
Three autonomous compaction rollers are working together on the construction of a new runway at Rafael Hernández International Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, with a s...
Construction machinery safety systems are beginning to cross an important boundary. Cameras, radar and object detection have spent years giving operators more information...
Komatsu is expanding its excavator range for Asian growth markets with three machines spanning the 7-tonne and 20-tonne classes, but the more interesting development is t...
HD Construction Equipment and Manitou Group have agreed to exchange compact construction equipment across their respective product portfolios, creating a cross-distributi...
In November 2016, Highways.Today published one of those stories that sounded too ridiculous to ignore. Road maintenance crews in Littleton, Colorado, were repairing crack...
Around 30 new JCB machines entering the Select Plant Hire fleet are passing through an Xwatch installation programme as part of a wider £5 million equipment investment, p...
Ritchie Bros. Lines Up 1,300+ Lots for UK and Ireland Auction More than 1,300 equipment lots are now listed for Ritchie Bros.’ UK and Ireland unreserved auction on...
Variable message signs have spent decades travelling with their own trailers. SG has now separated the two, developing a pallet-mounted VMS that can be delivered, positio...
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has started production of its updated Caddy in Poznań, Poland, extending a manufacturing programme that has produced almost 2.9 million exa...
Ordering a wheel loader with auxiliary hydraulics can mean a factory lead time of 12 to 20 weeks, according to HKX. The company’s first field-installable hydraulic...
A used excavator with clean paint, reasonable hours and an attractive price can still conceal an expensive history. Worn undercarriages, tired hydraulic components, struc...
Develon has reworked its four-tonne zero-tail-swing mini excavator with a new engine, altered boom geometry and faster arm movement, concentrating much of the engineering...
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