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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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Oneย Bobcat’s T86 Compact Track Loader and a $59 Billion Market
Oneย 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 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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