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John Deere Targets the Transport Sweet Spot with New 40 P-Tier Excavator
John Deere Targets the Transport Sweet Spot with New 40 P-Tier Excavator John Deere is adding a new machine between its 35 P-Tier and 50 P-Tier compact excavators, targeting a particularly useful part...
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Miller Plant Invests in Smarter Cat Earthmoving Fleet
Miller Plant Invests in Smarter Cat Earthmoving Fleet Miller Plant Ltd has committed ยฃ1.7 million to a seven-machine Caterpillar fleet for civil engineering and infrastructure work across north-east S...
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Mascus at 25 and the Evolution of Used Equipment Sales
Mascus at 25 and the Evolution of Used Equipment Sales Selling a used excavator across borders was a considerably more cumbersome business when Mascus launched its first website in Helsinki in January...
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Volvo A45 Hauler Makes its Japanese Quarry Debut
Volvo A45 Hauler Makes its Japanese Quarry Debut A one-tonne increase in payload does not sound particularly dramatic on a machine already capable of carrying more than 40 tonnes. Repeated hundreds of...
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Autonomous Rollers Move into Production on Puerto Rico Airport Project
Autonomous Rollers Move into Production on Puerto Rico Airport Project Three autonomous compaction rollers are working together on the construction of a new runway at Rafael Hernรกndez International Ai...
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Develon Puts Machine Intervention and Electric Excavation to Work at steinexpo
Develon Puts Machine Intervention and Electric Excavation to Work at steinexpo Construction machinery safety systems are beginning to cross an important boundary. Cameras, radar and object detection h...
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Komatsu Pushes Excavator Development Closer to Asiaโs Jobsites
Komatsu Pushes Excavator Development Closer to Asiaโs Jobsites Komatsu is expanding its excavator range for Asian growth markets with three machines spanning the 7-tonne and 20-tonne classes, but the...
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HD Construction Equipment and Manitou Building a Bigger Compact Machinery Business
HD Construction Equipment and Manitou Building a Bigger Compact Machinery Business HD Construction Equipment and Manitou Group have agreed to exchange compact construction equipment across their respe...
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From Toilet Paper to Robots – How Road Crack Sealing Has Evolved
From Toilet Paper to Robots – How Road Crack Sealing Has Evolved In November 2016, Highways.Today published one of those stories that sounded too ridiculous to ignore. Road maintenance crews in...
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Xwatch Safety Tech Moves Into Fleet Specification at Select Plant Hire
Xwatch Safety Tech Moves Into Fleet Specification at Select Plant Hire Around 30 new JCB machines entering the Select Plant Hire fleet are passing through an Xwatch installation programme as part of a...
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Ritchie Bros. Lines Up 1,300+ Lots for UK and Ireland Equipment Auction
Ritchie Bros. Lines Up 1,300+ Lots for UK and Ireland Auction More than 1,300 equipment lots are now listed for Ritchie Bros.’ UK and Ireland unreserved auction on 23 and 24 September, bringing...
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Palletised Variable Message Sign Removes the Trailer from Urban Roadworks
Palletised Variable Message Sign Removes the Trailer from Urban Roadworks Variable message signs have spent decades travelling with their own trailers. SG has now separated the two, developing a palle...
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Bechtel Turns to Wet Processing for its Next Century of Materials Production
Bechtel Turns to Wet Processing for its Next Century of Materials Production A quarry and materials business founded in southern Germany in 1926 is preparing for its second century with an investment...
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Updated Volkswagen Caddy Rolls Off the Line in Poznaล
Updated Volkswagen Caddy Rolls Off the Line in Poznaล Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has started production of its updated Caddy in Poznaล, Poland, extending a manufacturing programme that has produce...
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HKX Brings Field-Installed Hydraulics to Wheel Loaders
HKX Brings Field-Installed Hydraulics to Wheel Loaders Ordering a wheel loader with auxiliary hydraulics can mean a factory lead time of 12 to 20 weeks, according to HKX. The company’s first fie...
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Buying a Used Excavator Without Buying Someone Elseโs Problems
Buying a Used Excavator Without Buying Someone Elseโs Problems A used excavator with clean paint, reasonable hours and an attractive price can still conceal an expensive history. Worn undercarriages,...
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Develon Refines DX35Z-7 Mini Excavator for Confined-Site Work
Develon Refines DX35Z-7 Mini Excavator for Confined-Site Work Develon has reworked its four-tonne zero-tail-swing mini excavator with a new engine, altered boom geometry and faster arm movement, conce...
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Carbon-Fibre Dust Puts Electric Compressor Design to the Test at Hexcel
Carbon-Fibre Dust Puts Electric Compressor Design to the Test at Hexcel Electrifying industrial equipment becomes a rather different engineering proposition when conductive carbon-fibre dust is circul...
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Volvo Electric Machines Put Nuremberg’s Zero-Emission Tender to the Test
Volvo Electric Machines Put Nuremberg’s Zero-Emission Tender to the Test Nuremberg has turned the demolition of a former nursery into an unusual test of municipal procurement. The German city re...
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HKX Acquisition Takes MPS into Construction Equipment
HKX Acquisition Takes MPS into Construction Equipment Multi Parts Solutions has entered the construction equipment sector through the acquisition of HKX, bringing a specialist in excavator hydraulics...
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MAJOR Takes High-Vibration Screening into the Basalt Quarry at steinexpo
MAJOR Takes High-Vibration Screening into the Basalt Quarry at steinexpo Screening equipment rarely receives the attention given to crushers, excavators and loaders in a quarry, yet comparatively smal...
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Volvo R70 Rigid Hauler Makes European Debut at Bettenfeld Quarry
Volvo R70 Rigid Hauler Makes European Debut at Bettenfeld Quarry Europe’s first Stage V Volvo R70 rigid hauler has entered service at SHF Steinbruchbetriebe’s Bettenfeld Quarry in Germany,...
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Making Existing Diesel Trucks Compatible with Electric Highways
Making Existing Diesel Trucks Compatible with Electric Highways Europe has spent years proving that heavy trucks can draw power from overhead lines while travelling at motorway speeds. Germany’s...
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Mountain Bike Trail Building Turns to On-Site Material Processing
Mountain Bike Trail Building Turns to On-Site Material Processing Mountain bike trails may be built for recreation, but beneath the berms, rollers and carefully shaped corners sits a surprisingly conv...
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Seven Liebherr Cranes Coordinate Ulmโs B10 Bridge Reconstruction
Seven Liebherr Cranes Coordinate Ulmโs B10 Bridge Reconstruction Replacing a major road bridge above an operating railway is as much a problem of space and logistics as it is one of lifting capacity....
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Ritchie Bros. Takes Heavy Equipment Bidding Fully Mobile
Ritchie Bros. Takes Heavy Equipment Bidding Fully Mobile Buying a used excavator, truck or wheel loader at auction no longer necessarily requires a buyer to stop what they are doing, open a laptop and...
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Mastenbroek Refines 20/15 Drainage Trencher for 2026
Mastenbroek Refines 20/15 Drainage Trencher for 2026 A machine first introduced in 1981 might seem an unlikely place to look for equipment development, but Mastenbroek’s latest 20/15 drainage tr...
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Used Equipment Supply Tightens as European Buyer Demand Accelerates
Used Equipment Supply Tightens as European Buyer Demand Accelerates Demand for used tractor units across Europe rose 72% year-on-year during the second quarter of 2026 while the number advertised for...
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Liebherr Brings Electrified Quarrying and Heavy Machinery to steinexpo
Liebherr Brings Electrified Quarrying and Heavy Machinery to steinexpo A 130-tonne electric mining excavator connected directly to the grid will sit alongside a 564 kWh mobile battery system when Lieb...
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How Drive-by-Wire Is Reshaping Autonomous Machine Architecture
How Drive-by-Wire Is Reshaping Autonomous Machine Architecture The international rulebook for fully automated vehicles acquired considerably more substance in June 2026 when the UNECE World Forum for...
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Volvo EC400 Hybrid Cuts Fuel Use by 30% at Clariant Bentonite Mines
Volvo EC400 Hybrid Excavator Cuts Fuel Use by 30% at Clariant Bentonite Mines At Clariant’s bentonite pits in Lower Bavaria, a Volvo EC400 Hybrid excavator has reduced fuel consumption by around...
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Nextpower Pushes Solar Integration Deeper into the Power Plant with NX PowerMerge
Nextpower Pushes Solar Integration Deeper into the Power Plant with NX PowerMerge A single patent on a direct current connector rarely shifts an industry, yet United States patent 12,712,292 tells a p...
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What to Look for When Replacing Old Access Covers
What to Look for When Replacing Old Access Covers Replacing worn or outdated infrastructure rarely feels urgent until something actually breaks.ย Cracked lids or corroded frames are more than just eye...
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Hyundai and Shell Pivot to E-Fluids and Thermal Management
Hyundai and Shell Pivot to E-Fluids and Thermal Management On the surface, Hyundai Motor Company’s decision to extend its global cooperation agreement with Shell Lubricants through 2031 reads li...
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First USA Built Volvo Excavators Signal a Shift Towards Regional Manufacturing
First USA Built Volvo Excavators Signal a Shift Towards Regional Manufacturing The first excavators and large wheel loaders assembled on American soil by Volvo Construction Equipment have begun reachi...
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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 Hitachiโs Shift from Construction to Construction Intelligence
LANDCROS Signals Hitachiโs 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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Skyjackโs ELEVATE and the Race to Own the Connected Rental Machine
Skyjackโs ELEVATE and the Race to Own the Connected Rental Machine Skyjackโs 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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