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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 Tavanbogdโs Hitachi Workshop in Mongolia
EBRD Backs Tavanbogdโs 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 Germanyโs Su...
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Hitachi and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at the Centre of Miningโs Future
Hitachi and Pronto Put Mixed-Fleet Autonomy at the Centre of Miningโs Future The strategic partnership between Hitachi Construction Machinery and Pronto points towards a more commercially accessible m...
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Australiaโs AU$100 Million Equipment Auction Signals Deeper Market Liquidity
Australiaโs AU$100 Million Equipment Auction Signals Deeper Market Liquidity Australiaโs 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 Singaporeโs Changi Terminal 5
Komatsu Brings Connected Earthworks to Singaporeโs Changi Terminal 5 Komatsuโs 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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Big Joe Forklifts at 75 looks at Lithium-Ion and Autonomy
Big Joe Forklifts at 75 looks at Lithium-Ion and Autonomy 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...
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BYD SHARK Takes On the Ford Ranger PHEV in a Reformed Pickup Market
BYD SHARK Takes On the Ford Ranger PHEV in a Reformed Pickup Market The double-cab pickup has long held an unusual place in the British and European fleet, prized as much for its favourable tax treatm...
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From Haul Road to Smelter: Pedestrian Alert Technology Finds a Wider Market
From Haul Road to Smelter: Pedestrian Alert Technology Finds a Wider Market A pedestrian detection system built for the mining sector has been fitted across a mixed fleet of forklifts, skid steer load...
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The Next Frontier of Equipment Procurement
The Next Frontier of Equipment Procurement For most of the industry’s history, acquiring a bulldozer or excavator was a reasonably contained transaction. A contractor sized up a machine against...
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Sandvik Unifies Jaw Crusher Portfolio for Smarter Primary Crushing
Sandvik Unifies Jaw Crusher Portfolio for Smarter Primary Crushing Primary crushing remains one of the most demanding stages of any quarrying, mining or heavy construction operation. Equipment reliabi...
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Kรคrcher and STIHL Forge a Shared Battery Standard for Professional Equipment
Kรคrcher and STIHL Forge a Shared Battery Standard for Professional Equipment When two of Germany’s largest family-owned equipment manufacturers agree to run their professional machines off the s...
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Greenstone Adds Eight Volvo A40 Haulers to its Philippine Gold Fleet
Greenstone Adds Eight Volvo A40 Haulers to its Philippine Gold Fleet When a gold producer commits to eight 39-tonne articulated haulers in a single order, the decision says as much about the economics...
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Krandienst Sรผderau Strengthens Heavy Lifting Capability with Tadano AC 5.250L-2
Krandienst Sรผderau Strengthens Heavy Lifting Capability with Tadano AC 5.250L-2 When Krandienst Sรผderau took delivery of a Tadano AC 5.250L-2 at the manufacturer’s carrier plant in Lauf an der P...
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A Century of Earthmoving and Construction Machinery
A Century of Earthmoving and Construction Machinery 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 hundre...
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Liebherr’s โฌ100mย Investment Signals Confidence in European Manufacturing
Liebherr’s โฌ100mย Investment Signals Confidence in European Manufacturing The Liebherr Group has broken ground on a new manufacturing site at Nambsheim in the Haut-Rhin, and the foundation stone...
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Rental Summit 2026 to put TCO and Electrification Under the Spotlight
Rental Summit 2026 to put TCO and Electrification Under the Spotlight Briggs & Stratton is staging its Rental Summit as two separate regional events in 2026, one in Frankfurt built around total co...
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JCB Hydromax Turns Land Speed Bid into a Hydrogen Engine Showcase
JCB Hydromax Turns Land Speed Bid into a Hydrogen Engine Showcase British equipment maker JCB has finished the United Kingdom phase of its hydrogen land speed programme, with the Hydromax car reaching...
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Heavy Lifting Meets Urban Rail Renewal at Amsterdam Centraal
Heavy Lifting Meets Urban Rail Renewal at Amsterdam Centraal Replacing critical railway infrastructure inside one of Europe’s busiest stations without bringing services to a halt has become one...
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JCB Expands Digital Parts Platform as Aftermarket Becomes Competitive Battleground
JCB Expands Digital Parts Platform as Aftermarket Becomes Competitive Battleground For construction equipment manufacturers, the sale rarely ends when a machine leaves the factory. Increasingly, long-...
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Liebherr Targets Urban Construction with Generation 8 Compact Excavators
Liebherr Targets Urban Construction with Generation 8 Compact Excavators Urban construction is placing growing pressure on contractors to do more with less space. Whether replacing utilities beneath c...
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Volvo Electric Haulers Reach Commercial Reality on Norwegian Hydropower Project
Volvo Electric Haulers Reach Commercial Reality on Norwegian Hydropower Project The arrival of the world’s first production battery-electric articulated haulers on a major hydropower scheme mark...
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RB Global’s El Salvador Alliance Points to a Bigger Marketplace Strategy
RB Global’s El Salvador Alliance Points to a Bigger Marketplace Strategy RB Global’s decision to deepen its presence in El Salvador looks, on the surface, like a modest piece of channel ho...
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Hytera W60 Wearable Targets the Coverage Gaps That Slow Critical Infrastructure
Hytera W60 Wearable Targets the Coverage Gaps That Slow Critical Infrastructure When Hytera unveiled the W60 Wearable MCS Radio at Critical Communications World in London on 23 June 2026, the hardware...
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Volvo CE is Building its Next Excavator Factory Close to Home in Eskilstuna
Volvo CE is Building its Next Excavator Factory Close to Home in Eskilstuna The ground-breaking in Eskilstuna matters less for its ceremony than for what it reveals about where Europe’s heavy-eq...
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Insta360 Takes On DJI with the Luna Ultra and Leica Optics
Insta360 Takes On DJI with the Luna Ultra and Leica Optics Insta360 has spent a decade defining the action and panoramic camera categories, and with the Luna Ultra it has stepped into the pocket gimba...
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Manitou Strengthens GEHL Network Across Gauteng and The Western Cape
Manitou Strengthens GEHL Network Across Gauteng and The Western Cape Manitou Group has moved to tighten its grip on the largest construction equipment market on the African continent, naming two new d...
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Hyundai Takes Aim at UK Rental Market with A New Excavator for Hillhead
Hyundai Takes Aim at UK Rental Market with A New Excavator for Hillhead Hyundai’s heading back to the limestone benches above Buxton this June, and it isn’t travelling light. When the Hill...
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Meet Sherwin-Williams OneCure Single Bake Powder Coating
Meet Sherwin-Williams OneCure Single Bake Powder Coating Finishing lines have long carried a quiet tax that rarely shows up in a glossy product brochure. Every time a manufacturer wants the corrosion...
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Volvo Construction Equipment Turning Strategy Into Steel At Volvo Days 2026
Volvo Construction Equipment Turning Strategy Into Steel At Volvo Days 2026 There are worse ways to start a working week than watching a fleet of Volvo excavators and wheel loaders dance across a demo...
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Volvo Construction Equipment’s A50 Articulated Hauler a Red Dot Award
Volvo Construction Equipment’s A50 Articulated Hauler a Red Dot Award When a German design jury hands out a Red Dot, it tends to reward the things buyers actually notice: the sweep of a surface,...
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Volvo Plugs the EWR150 Electric Wheeled Excavator into our Zero Emission Future
Volvo Plugs the EWR150 Electric Wheeled Excavator into our Zero Emission Future Volvo Construction Equipment has put its first battery electric wheeled excavator on sale, and it’s Europe that ge...
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Volvo Turns their Wheel Loaders into Legal Weighbridges
Volvo Turns their Wheel Loaders into Legal Weighbridges Volvo Construction Equipment has reworked one of the oldest routines on a quarry or aggregates site, and it’s done so by moving the weighi...
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Inside Volvo Construction Equipment’s Connected Worksite
Inside Volvo Construction Equipment’s Connected Worksite For fifty-five years, Volvo Construction Equipment has used its Volvo Days showcase in Eskilstuna, Sweden, to roll out fresh iron and let...
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The Quarry is Turning Silent as VolvoCE Electrifies its Articulated Hauler Trucks
The Quarry is Turning Silent as VolvoCE Electrifies its Articulated Hauler Trucks There’s a particular smell to a Swedish forest in early summer, all warm pine and damp earth, and at Volvo Days...
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Poland, Netherlands and Indonesia Book Their Place at VolvoCE Masters World Final
Poland, Netherlands and Indonesia Book Their Place at VolvoCE Masters World Final The line-up for one of the construction equipment industry’s most demanding skills contests is coming into focus...
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Volvo Pushes Electric Trucking Past The 700 Kilometre Mark
Volvo Pushes Electric Trucking Past The 700 Kilometre Mark Volvo Trucks has lifted the ceiling on how far a heavy electric truck can run between charges, unveiling an FH Aero Electric with extended ra...
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