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.
Manitou Group has moved to tighten its grip on the largest construction equipment market on the African continent, naming two new dealers for its GEHL brand in South Afri...
Hyundai’s heading back to the limestone benches above Buxton this June, and it isn’t travelling light. When the Hillhead quarry show opens its gates from 23 t...
Finishing lines have long carried a quiet tax that rarely shows up in a glossy product brochure. Every time a manufacturer wants the corrosion protection of a primer unde...
There are worse ways to start a working week than watching a fleet of Volvo excavators and wheel loaders dance across a demonstration field in central Sweden, and I...
When a German design jury hands out a Red Dot, it tends to reward the things buyers actually notice: the sweep of a surface, the feel of a cab, the quiet logic of a contr...
Volvo Construction Equipment has put its first battery electric wheeled excavator on sale, and it’s Europe that gets first dibs. The EWR150 Electric, a 15 to 17 ton...
Volvo Construction Equipment has reworked one of the oldest routines on a quarry or aggregates site, and it’s done so by moving the weighing point off the ground an...
For fifty-five years, Volvo Construction Equipment has used its Volvo Days showcase in Eskilstuna, Sweden, to roll out fresh iron and let customers climb aboard. This yea...
There’s a particular smell to a Swedish forest in early summer, all warm pine and damp earth, and at Volvo Days 2026 in Eskilstuna it came mixed with the low growl...
The line-up for one of the construction equipment industry’s most demanding skills contests is coming into focus, and the names heading for Sweden this autumn tell...
Volvo Trucks has lifted the ceiling on how far a heavy electric truck can run between charges, unveiling an FH Aero Electric with extended range that’s rated for up...
When Volvo Construction Equipment handed over its first New Generation SD120 soil compactor in Thailand, the machine itself was only half the story. The delivery, complet...
Putting a battery into an excavator is the easy part. Keeping a yard full of electric machines charged, scheduled and working through a full shift, without tripping the l...
The default soundtrack of a construction site has, for decades, been the low rumble of a diesel generator. Walk onto almost any job site at dawn and you’ll hear one...
Road agencies worldwide are under mounting pressure to extend pavement life, reduce maintenance costs, minimise traffic disruption, and cut carbon emissions. As governmen...
A building’s strength has a lot to do with how its concrete is placed. Rushing the process or relying on sloppy methods creates air pockets, weak joints, and uneven...
Scotland’s construction equipment market is entering a new phase of competition as Hyundai Construction Equipment strengthens its presence north of the United Kingd...
The construction and heavy equipment sectors have spent years talking about digital transformation. Yet for many fleet owners, contractors and equipment managers, the rea...
For much of industrial history, machinery design has been judged by performance, durability and engineering ingenuity. Yet as industries confront labour shortages, automa...
Mining companies around the world continue to face mounting pressure to improve safety, productivity and operational consistency while working with increasingly complex f...
The UK’s construction and infrastructure sectors are under increasing pressure to deliver more projects in less time, often within tighter urban environments, stric...
The construction of major bridge infrastructure often captures attention through its scale, engineering ambition and long-term public value. Yet behind every landmark str...
The global quarrying, aggregates and recycling sectors continue to face a familiar challenge: producing more material with fewer operators, tighter environmental constrai...
The race to improve productivity in quarrying, mining, bulk materials handling and heavy construction has increasingly shifted from simply adding horsepower to extracting...
Construction equipment manufacturers have spent years digitising machines, fleets and worksites. Yet across large parts of the global heavy equipment sector, one critical...
Outdoor cleaning has become a far more demanding task than it was even a decade ago. Ports are operating around the clock, logistics hubs are expanding at record pace, in...
Across the UKβs infrastructure sector, trenchless technology is moving steadily from specialist utility work into a critical delivery method for modern network upgrades....
Modern heavy vehicles and machines, such as tractors, buses, and construction equipment, rely on advanced technology to operate safely and efficiently. One of the most im...
The acquisition of BigIron by RB Global marks another significant step in the consolidation of industrial and agricultural equipment marketplaces across North America. Wh...
The arrival of Develonβs new Series 9 crawler excavators at Hillhead 2026 signals more than another product launch in the heavy equipment calendar. It marks a decisive mo...
Remote and semi-autonomous equipment has been steadily reshaping the mining sector for more than a decade, but the pressure to deploy those systems quickly is becoming ju...
Industrial air compression rarely grabs headlines outside engineering circles, yet it quietly underpins everything from pharmaceutical production and semiconductor fabric...
For decades, the global construction equipment sector has been associated with diesel power, heavy machinery and hard-working engines designed to endure punishing conditi...
Modern construction sites are under pressure from every direction. Urban density is increasing, labour shortages continue to bite, project timelines are tightening and in...
Indonesiaβs infrastructure boom is rapidly reshaping equipment demand across Southeast Asia, and global manufacturers are moving quickly to secure their position in one o...
Spring is traditionally one of the busiest periods for construction equipment procurement across Europe, and this year appears no different. With infrastructure programme...
An asphalt paver is a combination of two primary units: the material moving unit (tractor) and the compaction and shaping unit (screed). All mechanical elements in this s...
The pressure on construction and demolition contractors to do more with fewer machines isnβt easing. Labour shortages remain stubborn across Europe, fuel costs continue t...
Backhoe loaders have long been the Swiss Army knife of the construction industry. They dig trenches, shift material, load trucks and tackle utility work with a versatilit...
The global construction and infrastructure sector is heading into unfamiliar territory. Automation, artificial intelligence, digital twins, robotics and connected equipme...
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