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Mecalac introduces Telehander Loader AS900tele to optimize logistics
Mecalac introduces Telehander Loader AS900tele to optimize logistics Mecalac, a leading global designer, manufacturer and distributor of compact construction equipment for urban environments, introduc...
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Tyre Boss expands popular tyre fill services
Tyre Boss expands popular tyre fill services Best known for supplying and fitting specialist solid tyres, Tyre Boss can also source and supply pretty much any off-highway tyre solution. This includes...
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Greater Manchester Police using Road Safety Support speedometer calibration services
Greater Manchester Police using Road Safety Support speedometer calibration services Greater Manchester Police has become the latest force to appoint the Road Safety Support Speed Test Laboratory to c...
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Unique Autonomous Vehicle Development Centre in the UK nears completion
Unique Autonomous Vehicle Development Centre in the UK nears completion Self-driving vehicles are a significant step closer to becoming a reality on public roads with the construction of a revolutiona...
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Unique stainless steel and concrete bridge built in Cumbria to combat flooding risk
Unique stainless steel and concrete bridge built in Cumbria to combat flooding risk A new stainless steel and concrete bridge, the first of its kind in the UK, has opened to pedestrians and vehicles i...
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Frost Control Systems and u-blox keep municipal roads safe in adverse weather
Frost Control Systems and u-blox keep municipal roads safe in adverse weather Adverse weather road conditions need treatment in order to keep US traffic moving, communities open, and thoroughfares saf...
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VolvoCE launches two Excavator ranges for bauma China 2020
VolvoCE launches two Excavator ranges for bauma China 2020 Volvo CE, which is exhibiting together with SDLG at bauma CHINA 2020, is demonstrating its commitment to the Chinese market by unveiling two...
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Kuwait awards Siemens Energy major service contract to bolster power grid reliability
Kuwait awards Siemens Energy major service contract to bolster power grid reliability Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity and Water has awarded Siemens Energy a contract to provide maintenance of 116 hig...
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Advanced Technology Research Council creates ASPIRE to drive future technologies
Advanced Technology Research Council creates ASPIRE to drive future technologies The newly established Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC) in Abu Dhabi has announced its plans to drive the cre...
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Experts discuss and debate the Future of Smart Cities in a Post-Pandemic World
Experts discuss and debate the Future of Smart Cities in a Post-Pandemic World Doha, Singapore, and Amsterdam are represented in a virtual summit hosted by Msheireb Downtown Doha, one of world’s smart...
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MB Crusher highlights 5 exceptional contractors with extreme job sites
MB Crusher highlights 5 exceptional contractors with extreme job sites How to save thousands of dollars while developing nine thousand kilometres (five thousand five hundred and ninety two miles) of l...
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Vodafone UK expands services to remove barriers to IoT adoption
Vodafone UK expands services to remove barriers to IoT adoption Vodafone UK is launching a new range of IoT services that will remove barriers to IoT adoption for UK businesses. By partnering with IoT...
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Network Rail’s new road-to-rail vehicle can reach emergencies faster
Network Rail’s new road-to-rail vehicle can reach emergencies faster Emergency services will have a better chance of saving lives when responding to incidents in the Severn Tunnel thanks to a ne...
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Fugro contract in Romania supports World Bank’s flood hazard and risk mapping
Fugro contract in Romania supports World Bank’s flood hazard and risk mapping Fugro has been awarded a Geo-data acquisition contract to support the World Bank in its efforts to support the Gover...
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Snøhetta designs landmark building in Hong Kong at former Kai Tak Airport
Snøhetta designs landmark building in Hong Kong at former Kai Tak Airport Commissioned by Nan Fung Group, Snøhetta has designed a mixed-use building in Hong Kong, named Airside. Situated in the centre...
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Aggregate Industries introduces range of new asphalt products
Aggregate Industries introduces range of new asphalt products Leading construction materials supplier Aggregate Industries has launched four new products, further bolstering its asphalt offering. The...
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Skyjack President discusses Equipment Rental in China
Skyjack President discusses Equipment Rental in China Skyjack President Ken McDougall presented, virtually, at the International Rental Conference in Shanghai on the North American Rental Market. With...
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Tachyum joins I4DI to develop the world’s fastest AI Supercomputer in Slovakia
Tachyum joins I4DI to develop the world’s fastest AI Supercomputer in Slovakia Tachyum has announced the formation of I4DI (Innovations for Digital Infrastructure), a partnership of innovative E...
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Komatsu Group open East Japan Exhibition Hall in Oyama City
Komatsu Group open East Japan Exhibition Hall in Oyama City Komatsu’s new Exhibition Hall was opened on 20 November, 2020, by three Komatsu Group companies in East Japan. The Exhibition Centre w...
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Aggregate Industries launches its Career Kickstart Programme 2020
Aggregate Industries launches its Career Kickstart Programme 2020 Committed to supporting the government’s pledge to provide skills and training for young people, Aggregate Industries has launched its...
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VINCI Energies acquires Eltek Systems to expand automation and process control
VINCI Energies acquires Eltek Systems to expand automation and process control Electrical, Automation and ICT engineering services provider, VINCI Energies UK & RoI has strengthened its industrial...
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Abseiling and diving all part of the job for Highways England engineers and inspectors
Abseiling and diving all part of the job for Highways England engineers and inspectors A two-year routine maintenance programme on a bridge used by around 23,000 drivers a day has recently completed –...
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Finning apprenticeship training scheme wins UK recognition
Finning apprenticeship training scheme wins UK recognition Finning UK and Ireland has been awarded a national accolade for its outstanding apprenticeship programmes, scooping a place in the government...
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Fleet of Effidence robotic stackers assist Rhenus logistics services
Fleet of Effidence robotic stackers assist Rhenus logistics services This new season is marked by the realization of a joint project between Rhenus, one of the world’s leading logistics services...
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Velodyne Lidar announces agreement with digital vehicle manufacturer Local Motors
Velodyne Lidar announces agreement with digital vehicle manufacturer Local Motors Velodyne Lidar has announced a multi-year sales agreement with Local Motors, a leading digital vehicle manufacturer th...
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Doka makes an impression with their fair-faced concrete
Doka makes an impression with their fair-faced concrete The new headquarters of Banca Transilvania, situated in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, is an office building, which covers an area of more than 40,000 m²...
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USC researchers develop new method to allow robots to learn new tasks
USC researchers develop new method to allow robots to learn new tasks USC researchers have developed a method that could allow robots to learn new tasks, like setting a table or driving a car, from ob...
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NAWA America launched to industrialise advanced composite materials
NAWA America launched to industrialise advanced composite materials NAWA Technologies, a pioneer of next-generation energy storage systems has launched NAWA America, a new US-based company focused on...
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Lotus Engineering opens Battery Test Facility to support Electric Vehicle boom
Lotus Engineering opens Battery Test Facility to support Electric Vehicle boom Lotus Engineering is launching a pilot containerised battery testing facility to assess energy storage solutions for the...
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Speed warning signs installed by SWARCO Traffic for Melsonby Parish Council
Speed warning signs installed by SWARCO Traffic for Melsonby Parish Council An intelligent and reliable Vehicle Activated Sign (VAS) specified and installed by SWARCO Traffic, the traffic technology s...
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Jaguar Land Rover testing self-driving technology with Smart City Hub
Jaguar Land Rover testing self-driving technology with Smart City Hub Jaguar Land Rover is partnering with global software, mobility and telecoms companies to create a smart city hub that will allow r...
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Two SENNEBOGEN 355 E Telehandlers replace three wheel loaders in Austria
Two SENNEBOGEN 355 E Telehandlers replace three wheel loaders in Austria For over 40 years AWV Liezen has been the central location for waste management in the Liezen district. Using state-of-the-art...
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Unloading steel wire in Belgium made easy with SENNEBOGEN 870 Port Material Handler
Unloading steel wire in Belgium made easy with SENNEBOGEN 870 Port Material Handler DD Shipping NV, member of the Square Group, is a stevedoring company for dry bulk goods and general cargo. The compa...
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Fetch.ai and Datarella announce Smart City Infrastructure Trials In Munich
Fetch.ai and Datarella announce Smart City Infrastructure Trials In Munich Fetch.ai, a Cambridge-based artificial intelligence lab building an open-access decentralized machine learning network for sm...
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John Holland awarded critical part of Inland Rail project in Australia
John Holland awarded critical part of Inland Rail project in Australia John Holland has been awarded a major contract by the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) to deliver a vital stage of the na...
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NI tech used by Radsys to implement Automotive Radar Testing Standard in China
NI tech used by Radsys to implement Automotive Radar Testing Standard in China This August, the China Association for Automobile Manufacturers published T/CAAMTB 15-2020, a new standard test method fo...
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Eagle Crusher and Hills Machinery expands into Georgia USA
Eagle Crusher and Hills Machinery expands into Georgia USA Eagle Crusher has added the state of Georgia to the list of states already represented by Hills Machinery Co. as the authorized distributor f...
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Kawasaki test unmanned K-RACER compound helicopter
Kawasaki test unmanned K-RACER compound helicopter Kawasaki Heavy Industries successfully conducted a flight test of the unmanned compound helicopter K-RACER at Taiki-cho Multi-purpose Aviation Park i...
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Highways England gets the go ahead for A303 bypass around Stonehenge
Highways England gets the go ahead for A303 bypass around Stonehenge Here’s how future journeys past Stonehenge could look after Highways England’s plans to unlock congestion and transform journeys fo...
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Fugro wins Caltrans contract for automated pavement condition surveys
Fugro wins Caltrans contract for automated pavement condition surveys Fugro has been awarded a multi-year contract by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to perform automated paveme...
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STRABAG wins 55 km railway line upgrade contract in Hungary
STRABAG wins 55 km railway line upgrade contract in Hungary STRABAG, the European-based technology partner for construction services, has been awarded the contract to upgrade an approximately 55 km lo...
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SENNEBOGEN 640 E dragline crane digs in for Adam Frères in France
SENNEBOGEN 640 E dragline crane digs in for Adam Frères in France For three generations, the family company ADAM Frères has specialized in the extraction, distribution and transport of aggregates and...
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John Holland and Seymour Whyte to deliver Sydney’s new Gateway Motorway
John Holland and Seymour Whyte to deliver Sydney’s new Gateway Motorway John Holland and Seymour Whyte will deliver the toll-free Sydney Gateway motorway, a project that will transform how peopl...
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Atkins secures 9 year procurement contract for PTA Metronet Rolling Stock in Australia
Atkins secures 9 year procurement contract for PTA Metronet Rolling Stock in Australia SNC-Lavalin’s Atkins business has been appointed by the Public Transport Authority of Western Australia (PTA) and...
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STRABAG awarded contracts for flood protection dams in Oman
STRABAG awarded contracts for flood protection dams in Oman STRABAG, the publicly listed European-based construction group, has been awarded two major contracts in the Sultanate of Oman. The Ministry...
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sees.ai wins UK Government drone funding to protect workers in highway infrastructure
sees.ai wins UK Government drone funding to protect workers in highway infrastructure Advance drone system sees.ai, leading a consortium of eight partners that includes Atkins, has won a share of £30...
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Network Rail begins work on second section of new Dawlish sea wall
Network Rail begins work on second section of new Dawlish sea wall Network Rail has started work on the second section of the new, bigger sea wall at Dawlish, in Devon, which will provide greater prot...
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Wirtgen W-220-Fi and Mill Assist remove road surface to 46 cm depth in two passes
Wirtgen W-220-Fi and Mill Assist remove road surface to 46 cm depth in two passes In Illinois, USA, a Wirtgen W 220 Fi large milling machine is being used to remove an entire road surface in just two...
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Pioneering fluid analysis lab keeps construction machines up and running
Pioneering fluid analysis lab keeps construction machines up and running Fluid analysis reveals a lot about the health of a machine. Finning UK & Ireland, official distributor for Caterpillar® equ...
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EMEC-Prototyping celebrates 10 year anniversary with new HQ and larger test lab
EMEC-Prototyping celebrates 10 year anniversary with new HQ and larger test lab EMEC-Prototyping’s history started 10 years ago with Powertools development for the company Bosch. Test benches and proc...
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