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.
One hundred years ago the construction equipment industry crossed a threshold it never crossed back over. Steam shovels, cable excavators and the first crawler dozers rep...
Crews in rural Guadalajara spent the third week of July 2026 working a fire that had burned more than 32,000 hectares across a landscape where roughly 90 per cent of the...
For close to two decades, construction telematics has been sold on visibility. Fleet owners were promised they would finally know where their machines were, how hard they...
Major infrastructure projects rely on precise coordination. A motorway widening scheme, bridge replacement or major drainage installation may involve dozens of contractor...
Stevens Equipment Rental has taken delivery of its 1000th new machine, and the choice of asset says more about the direction of the UK plant market than the milestone its...
The second round of Liebherr Power Deals, running from July 2026, looks at first glance like a conventional dealer incentive programme. Read the structure rather than the...
Danfoss signed a definitive agreement on 9 July 2026 to acquire Alfagomma, the Vimercate-based manufacturer of hoses and fittings, and the transaction will fold roughly E...
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles opened UK order books on 21 July for the first plug-in hybrid version of the Transporter, priced from Β£38,155 excluding VAT and offered in...
A MNT 143 billion loan for a maintenance shed is easy to underestimate. Read against where money and margin are actually moving in the heavy-equipment business, the Europ...
A machine may be purchased once, but it consumes, wears, moves, communicates, breaks down, gets repaired, is refinanced and eventually changes owners across a working lif...
The construction machinery business tends to judge a trade show long before its doors open, and the signal that matters most is not the visitor forecast but the exhibitor...
P&M Excavations Builds a Competitive Edge on a Decade of Trimble Machine Control A family-run civil engineering contractor from County Tyrone has spent ten years prov...
When Develon returns to steinexpo this September, the more revealing story is not the size of its stand but what the machines standing on it say about where quarry and co...
The completion of tunnelling beneath the River Elbe has removed one of the most technically demanding obstacles facing Germanyβs SuedLink electricity transmission program...
The strategic partnership between Hitachi Construction Machinery and Pronto points towards a more commercially accessible model for mine automation, one designed around t...
Australiaβs construction, mining, transport and agricultural equipment market has delivered a significant measure of its underlying strength. Ritchie Bros.β 2026 National...
The next phase of transport electrification will depend on more than battery capacity and charging speed. Heavy-duty trucks, construction equipment, ships and aircraft ne...
Komatsuβs first full-scale Smart Construction deployment in Singapore will place digitally guided machinery and shared earthworks data at the centre of one of Asiaβs most...
Concrete repair rarely makes headlines, yet the economics of how a bridge deck or car park slab is stripped back and rebuilt sit close to the centre of the maintenance ch...
Picture a working earthworks site on a weekday morning. An excavator trims a batter to design grade on its own, its boom and bucket following a three-dimensional model wh...
The launch of a single handheld radio rarely counts as a strategic event, yet the release of Hytera’s PDC580 dual-mode rugged radio touches on a question that sits...
When a contractor barely five years old commits to fifteen new excavators in a single order, the number itself is less telling than the reasoning behind it. Bedfordshire-...
The arrival of the UK’s first Liebherr 620 HC-L luffing jib tower crane matters less for the machine itself than for the type of project it has been bought to serve...
For most highway authorities, the obstacle to fitting active, illuminated road studs has rarely been the technology itself. Solar-powered studs that project their own LED...
Modern developments, whether residential, commercial, or industrial, rely on a wide range of equipment to ensure projects run smoothly and efficiently. From construction...
A seventy-fifth anniversary would ordinarily sit in the softer corner of the trade press, a moment for company photographs and a look back at old catalogues. In the case...
The double-cab pickup has long held an unusual place in the British and European fleet, prized as much for its favourable tax treatment as for its ability to haul a tonne...
A pedestrian detection system built for the mining sector has been fitted across a mixed fleet of forklifts, skid steer loaders, cranes and backhoes at a mining and smelt...
For most of the industry’s history, acquiring a bulldozer or excavator was a reasonably contained transaction. A contractor sized up a machine against the job, nego...
Primary crushing remains one of the most demanding stages of any quarrying, mining or heavy construction operation. Equipment reliability, operator safety and predictable...
When two of Germany’s largest family-owned equipment manufacturers agree to run their professional machines off the same battery, the significance reaches well beyo...
When a gold producer commits to eight 39-tonne articulated haulers in a single order, the decision says as much about the economics of moving rock as it does about any on...
When Krandienst SΓΌderau took delivery of a Tadano AC 5.250L-2 at the manufacturer’s carrier plant in Lauf an der Pegnitz, the transaction looked, on paper, like a r...
Almost every road, runway, dam, harbour wall and city skyline of the modern age was shaped by a machine that did the work of dozens, and then hundreds, of people. The his...
The Liebherr Group has broken ground on a new manufacturing site at Nambsheim in the Haut-Rhin, and the foundation stone matters far less than the strategy it anchors. Th...
Briggs & Stratton is staging its Rental Summit as two separate regional events in 2026, one in Frankfurt built around total cost of ownership and one in Atlanta built...
British equipment maker JCB has finished the United Kingdom phase of its hydrogen land speed programme, with the Hydromax car reaching 208mph at RAF Wittering in Cambridg...
Replacing critical railway infrastructure inside one of Europe’s busiest stations without bringing services to a halt has become one of the defining engineering cha...
For construction equipment manufacturers, the sale rarely ends when a machine leaves the factory. Increasingly, long-term profitability depends on the quality of aftermar...
Urban construction is placing growing pressure on contractors to do more with less space. Whether replacing utilities beneath city streets, carrying out highway maintenan...
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