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.
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...
The arrival of the world’s first production battery-electric articulated haulers on a major hydropower scheme marks an important milestone for both heavy constructi...
RB Global’s decision to deepen its presence in El Salvador looks, on the surface, like a modest piece of channel housekeeping: one local operator, one auction centr...
When Hytera unveiled the W60 Wearable MCS Radio at Critical Communications World in London on 23 June 2026, the hardware was almost the smallest part of the story. At rou...
The ground-breaking in Eskilstuna matters less for its ceremony than for what it reveals about where Europe’s heavy-equipment makers intend to build over the coming...
Insta360 has spent a decade defining the action and panoramic camera categories, and with the Luna Ultra it has stepped into the pocket gimbal segment for the first time....
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...
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