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Dual-Power Equipment the Practical Route for Landscape Electrification
Dual-Power Equipment the Practical Route for Landscape Electrification The professional landscaping sector has spent the better part of a decade being told it faces a binary choice between the petrol...
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DEVELON Expands Compact Equipment Strategy with DEF-Free Track Loaders
DEVELON Expands Compact Equipment Strategy with DEF-Free Track Loaders DEVELON’s decision to build two compact track loaders that need no diesel exhaust fluid reads, at first glance, like a mode...
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Tower Cranes Take Construction Engineering into Amazon Climate Science
Tower Cranes Take Construction Engineering into Amazon Climate Science The deployment of four Liebherr 85 EC-B tower cranes at the AmazonFACE research site near Manaus reads, at first glance, as a cur...
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Vermeer and Interlune to Industrialise the Lunar Construction Supply Chain
Vermeer and Interlune to Industrialise the Lunar Construction Supply Chain The most revealing thing about the expanded partnership between Interlune and Vermeer is not that a lunar excavator exists. I...
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LANDCROS Signals Hitachi’s Shift from Construction to Construction Intelligence
LANDCROS Signals Hitachi’s Shift from Machinery to Construction Intelligence Hitachi Construction Machinery has opened its LANDCROS Innovation Studios Challenge to Europe for the first time, inviting...
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Skyjack’s ELEVATE and the Race to Own the Connected Rental Machine
Skyjack’s ELEVATE and the Race to Own the Connected Rental Machine Skyjack’s latest push around its ELEVATE telematics suite, its operator-facing ELEVATE Live tool and a widening line of ACCESSORYZER...
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Bobcat Wins Three CMME Awards Signalling a Broader Play for Gulf Worksites
Bobcat Wins Three CMME Awards Signalling a Broader Play for Gulf Worksites Bobcat left the 2026 Construction Machinery Middle East (CMME) Awards in Dubai with three trophies, and on the surface that r...
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The Mid-Sized Excavator is Being Re-Specified as a Multi-Tool Platform
The Mid-Sized Excavator is Being Re-Specified as a Multi-Tool Platform A North Yorkshire groundworks contractor quietly re-equipping one excavator is not, on its own, a market event. When J Lingard Si...
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Construction Waste is Becoming a New Revenue Stream for Contractors in UK
Construction Waste is Becoming a New Revenue Stream for Contractors in UK The headline event is modest on paper, in that a UK civil engineering contractor in Blackpool has commissioned a wash plant. T...
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Standby Power Moves to the Centre of the AI Data Centre Buildout
Standby Power Moves to the Centre of the AI Data Centre Buildout The tightest constraint on the artificial intelligence buildout has quietly shifted from processors to power, and specifically to the p...
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Edge Detection and the Shift From Paving Craft to Sensor-Guided Control
Edge Detection and the Shift From Paving Craft to Sensor-Guided Control A single laser sensor bolted to the side plate of a paving screed does not, on the face of it, sound like a strategic developmen...
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Liebherr Turns Excavator Durability Testing Into an Autonomy Proving Ground
Liebherr Turns Excavator Durability Testing Into an Autonomy Proving Ground On paper, the new test rig that Liebherr France SAS commissioned at Colmar in early 2026 is a durability tool. It costs clos...
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Skipper’s C8 Barrier and the New Economics of Street Works Safety
Skipper’s C8 Barrier and the New Economics of Street Works Safety Pedestrian barriers rank among the least glamorous items in the construction supply chain, yet they sit at the point where three...
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The Independent Blueprint Behind Y.E.S.’s Kubota Expansion
The Independent Blueprint Behind Y.E.S.’s Kubota Expansion Falkirk-based Your Equipment Solutions has committed to more than 70 Kubota mini excavators from local dealer HRN Tractors, and on the...
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Yanmar and Hitachi Explore a New Model for Competing in Compact Equipment
Yanmar and Hitachi Explore a New Model for Competing in Compact Equipment When two Japanese manufacturers sign a letter of intent to “explore” a collaboration, the temptation is to file it...
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JCB Hydromax Sets 368mph Record Ahead of FIA Hydrogen World Record Bid
JCB Hydromax Sets 368mph Record Ahead of FIA Hydrogen World Record Bid JCB’s Hydromax streamliner has clinched a Southern California Timing Association speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats,...
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Predictive Sales Data Comes for Construction Equipment Dealers
Predictive Sales Data Comes for Construction Equipment Dealers For most of the past decade, competitive advantage in construction equipment distribution has been argued in terms of iron. Dealers and m...
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Beyond the Loader: The Automation Layer Now Deciding Underground Mining
Beyond the Loader: The Automation Layer Now Deciding Underground Mining When RCT technicians commissioned the last Caterpillar R2900G ever sold, at a silver and lead operation in Queensland, the momen...
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CNH’s Norcar Alliance Signals a New Strategy for Compact Construction Equipment
CNH’s Norcar Alliance Signals a New Strategy for Compact Construction Equipment The industrial cooperation agreement CNH Construction signed with Finland’s Oy Norcar Ab on 24 July 2026 loo...
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The Tadano AC 7.450-1 and the Economics of Constrained Lifting
The Tadano AC 7.450-1 and the Economics of Constrained Lifting A single lift in the medieval heart of Bruges rarely carries much market significance, yet the operation Belgian crane service provider G...
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Utility Strike Prevention Goes Fleet-Wide as Network Plus Backs Live Dig Radar
Utility Strike Prevention Goes Fleet-Wide as Network Plus Backs Live Dig Radar Network Plus has committed to fitting RodRadar’s Live Dig Radar across more than 200 machines in its repair and mai...
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Electrified Harbour Cranes are Reshaping Port Competitiveness at Gulfport
Electrified Harbour Cranes are Reshaping Port Competitiveness at Gulfport SSA Marine and the Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport have commissioned a second Liebherr LHM 550 hybrid mobile harb...
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Komatsu and AIM Put Physical AI at the Centre of Autonomous Earthmoving
Komatsu and AIM Put Physical AI at the Centre of Autonomous Earthmoving Komatsu has spent nearly two decades proving that heavy machines can run themselves. Its FrontRunner system put the first commer...
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One Bobcat’s T86 Compact Track Loader and a $59 Billion Market
One Bobcat’s T86 Compact Track Loader and a $59 Billion Market A single compact track loader arriving on a roadworks site near Brescia would not normally register as market news. Gambara Asfalti...
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Volvo Targets Japan’s Urban Construction Boom with a Smarter Compact Excavator
Volvo Targets Japan’s Urban Construction Boom with a Smarter Compact Excavator The New Generation ECR355 arrives in a market defined less by weak demand than by the shortage of people available...
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Beyond Heavy Iron – The Next Century of Construction Equipment
Beyond Heavy Iron – The Next Century of Construction Equipment One hundred years ago the construction equipment industry crossed a threshold it never crossed back over. Steam shovels, cable exca...
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Bobcat Compact Equipment Moves to the Front Line of Europe’s Wildfire Prevention
Bobcat Compact Equipment Moves to the Front Line of Europe’s Wildfire Prevention Crews in rural Guadalajara spent the third week of July 2026 working a fire that had burned more than 32,000 hect...
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JCB LiveLink Update Marks Shift From Machine Monitoring to Remote Fleet Control
JCB LiveLink Update Marks Shift From Machine Monitoring to Remote Fleet Control For close to two decades, construction telematics has been sold on visibility. Fleet owners were promised they would fin...
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Why Equipment Reliability Matters on Major Infrastructure Projects
Why Equipment Reliability Matters on Major Infrastructure Projects Major infrastructure projects rely on precise coordination. A motorway widening scheme, bridge replacement or major drainage installa...
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Stevens Equipment Rental is Leading Britain’s Shift to Intelligent Wheel Loaders
Stevens Equipment Rental is Leading Britain’s Shift to Intelligent Wheel Loaders Stevens Equipment Rental has taken delivery of its 1000th new machine, and the choice of asset says more about th...
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Liebherr Power Deals Shift the Battleground From Machine Price to Lifetime Cost
Liebherr Power Deals Shift the Battleground From Machine Price to Lifetime Cost The second round of Liebherr Power Deals, running from July 2026, looks at first glance like a conventional dealer incen...
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Danfoss Expands Global Fluid Conveyance Reach with Alfagomma Acquisition
Danfoss Expands Global Fluid Conveyance Reach with Alfagomma Acquisition Danfoss signed a definitive agreement on 9 July 2026 to acquire Alfagomma, the Vimercate-based manufacturer of hoses and fittin...
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Volkswagen Expands Transporter Range with First Plug-in Hybrid Van
Volkswagen Expands Transporter Range with First Plug-in Hybrid Van Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles opened UK order books on 21 July for the first plug-in hybrid version of the Transporter, priced from...
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EBRD Backs Tavanbogd’s Hitachi Workshop in Mongolia
EBRD Backs Tavanbogd’s Hitachi Workshop in Mongolia 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-equipme...
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The Hidden Economy Behind Every Construction Machine
The Hidden Economy Behind Every Construction Machine A machine may be purchased once, but it consumes, wears, moves, communicates, breaks down, gets repaired, is refinanced and eventually changes owne...
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Volvo, Komatsu and Liebherr Anchor INTERMAT 2027 as Electric Turns Commercial
Volvo, Komatsu and Liebherr Anchor INTERMAT 2027 as Electric Turns Commercial The construction machinery business tends to judge a trade show long before its doors open, and the signal that matters mo...
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P&M Excavations Builds a Competitive Edge on a Decade of Trimble Machine Control
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 proving a point that much of the w...
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Develon to Spotlight AI Safety and Series 9 Heavy Excavators at steinexpo 2026
Develon to Spotlight AI Safety and Series 9 Heavy Excavators at steinexpo 2026 When Develon returns to steinexpo this September, the more revealing story is not the size of its stand but what the mach...
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Herrenknecht TBM Completes Critical SuedLink Tunnel Beneath the Elbe
Herrenknecht TBM Completes Critical SuedLink Tunnel Beneath the Elbe The completion of tunnelling beneath the River Elbe has removed one of the most technically demanding obstacles facing Germany’s Su...
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Hitachi and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at the Centre of Mining’s Future
Hitachi and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at the Centre of Mining’s Future The strategic partnership between Hitachi Construction Machinery and Pronto points towards a more commercially accessible m...
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Australia’s AU$100 Million Equipment Auction Signals Deeper Market Liquidity
Australia’s AU$100 Million Equipment Auction Signals Deeper Market Liquidity Australia’s construction, mining, transport and agricultural equipment market has delivered a significant measure of its un...
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ORNL Motor Drive Design Targets Heat and Wear for High-Power Electric Propulsion
ORNL Motor Drive Design Targets Heat and Wear for High-Power Electric Propulsion The next phase of transport electrification will depend on more than battery capacity and charging speed. Heavy-duty tr...
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Komatsu Brings Connected Earthworks to Singapore’s Changi Terminal 5
Komatsu Brings Connected Earthworks to Singapore’s Changi Terminal 5 Komatsu’s first full-scale Smart Construction deployment in Singapore will place digitally guided machinery and shared earthworks d...
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How Robotic Hydrodemolition is Reshaping Concrete Repair
How Robotic Hydrodemolition is Reshaping Concrete Repair 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 c...
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The Intelligent Machine Has Arrived
The Intelligent Machine Has Arrived 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 mo...
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Hytera PDC580 Bridges Narrowband and Broadband on the Critical Front Line
Hytera PDC580 Bridges Narrowband and Broadband on the Critical Front Line The launch of a single handheld radio rarely counts as a strategic event, yet the release of Hytera’s PDC580 dual-mode r...
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MIDA Civils Deepens Kubota Commitment as Fleet Expands Beyond 100 Machines
MIDA Civils Deepens Kubota Commitment as Fleet Expands Beyond 100 Machines When a contractor barely five years old commits to fifteen new excavators in a single order, the number itself is less tellin...
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Britain’s First Liebherr 620 HC-L Goes to Work Inside York’s City Walls
Britain’s First Liebherr 620 HC-L Goes to Work Inside York’s City Walls The arrival of the UK’s first Liebherr 620 HC-L luffing jib tower crane matters less for the machine itself th...
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Clearview and Prismo Secure DfT Approval for Cast Iron SolarLite S381 Active Road Stud
Clearview and Prismo Secure DfT Approval for Cast Iron SolarLite S381 Active Road Stud For most highway authorities, the obstacle to fitting active, illuminated road studs has rarely been the technolo...
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Why Reliable Equipment is Essential for Modern Developments
Why Reliable Equipment is Essential for Modern Developments Modern developments, whether residential, commercial, or industrial, rely on a wide range of equipment to ensure projects run smoothly and e...
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