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.
The deployment of four Liebherr 85 EC-B tower cranes at the AmazonFACE research site near Manaus reads, at first glance, as a curiosity: construction plant repurposed for...
The most revealing thing about the expanded partnership between Interlune and Vermeer is not that a lunar excavator exists. It is that a mainstream industrial-equipment m...
LANDCROS Signals Hitachiβs Shift from Machinery to Construction Intelligence Hitachi Construction Machinery has opened its LANDCROS Innovation Studios Challenge to Europe...
Skyjackβs latest push around its ELEVATE telematics suite, its operator-facing ELEVATE Live tool and a widening line of ACCESSORYZER safety attachments looks, at first gl...
Bobcat left the 2026 Construction Machinery Middle East (CMME) Awards in Dubai with three trophies, and on the surface that reads as a straightforward night of industry r...
A North Yorkshire groundworks contractor quietly re-equipping one excavator is not, on its own, a market event. When J Lingard Site Services fitted a Rototilt RC5 tiltrot...
The tightest constraint on the artificial intelligence buildout has quietly shifted from processors to power, and specifically to the physical equipment that delivers and...
A single laser sensor bolted to the side plate of a paving screed does not, on the face of it, sound like a strategic development. Yet the quiet arrival of automated scre...
On paper, the new test rig that Liebherr France SAS commissioned at Colmar in early 2026 is a durability tool. It costs close to EUR 2.5 million, sits inside an enclosed...
Pedestrian barriers rank among the least glamorous items in the construction supply chain, yet they sit at the point where three separate pressures now converge: a tighte...
Falkirk-based Your Equipment Solutions has committed to more than 70 Kubota mini excavators from local dealer HRN Tractors, and on the surface the deal reads as a routine...
When two Japanese manufacturers sign a letter of intent to “explore” a collaboration, the temptation is to file it under industrial courtesy and move on. The...
JCB’s Hydromax streamliner has clinched a Southern California Timing Association speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats, averaging 368.347mph across two runs and...
For most of the past decade, competitive advantage in construction equipment distribution has been argued in terms of iron. Dealers and manufacturers have competed on pro...
When RCT technicians commissioned the last Caterpillar R2900G ever sold, at a silver and lead operation in Queensland, the moment carried more weight than the retirement...
The industrial cooperation agreement CNH Construction signed with Finland’s Oy Norcar Ab on 24 July 2026 looks, on the surface, like a modest distribution deal: a s...
A single lift in the medieval heart of Bruges rarely carries much market significance, yet the operation Belgian crane service provider Gheysens completed with a Tadano A...
Network Plus has committed to fitting RodRadar’s Live Dig Radar across more than 200 machines in its repair and maintenance fleet, a multi-year programme that moves...
SSA Marine and the Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport have commissioned a second Liebherr LHM 550 hybrid mobile harbour crane, supported by a US$1.6 million sta...
Komatsu has spent nearly two decades proving that heavy machines can run themselves. Its FrontRunner system put the first commercial autonomous haul trucks into mines in...
A single compact track loader arriving on a roadworks site near Brescia would not normally register as market news. Gambara Asfalti, a paving and asphalt contractor of fo...
The New Generation ECR355 arrives in a market defined less by weak demand than by the shortage of people available to meet it. When Volvo Group Japan handed the ceremonia...
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...
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