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Made in Britain brand adds £3.5 billion a year to UK exports
Made in Britain brand adds £3.5 billion a year to UK exports As the UK government negotiates new trade deals in markets across the globe, research1 from Barclays Corporate Banking released today reveals how British exporters can benefit from price premiums of up to £3.5bn per year in ten key countri...
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Construction companies set to see a rise in adjudications
Construction companies set to see a rise in adjudications Organisations in the construction sector are being warned to expect a rise in the number of adjudications around contracts as government support comes to an end and cash becomes scarce for many businesses. Ian Timlin, a dispute resolution spe...
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MIT algorithm helps artificial intelligence systems dodge ‘adversarial’ inputs
MIT algorithm helps artificial intelligence systems dodge ‘adversarial’ inputs In a perfect world, what you see is what you get. If this were the case, the job of artificial intelligence systems would be refreshingly straightforward. Take collision avoidance systems in self-driving cars....
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Norwest Plant agrees multi-million pound site dumper deal with Mecalac
Norwest Plant agrees multi-million pound site dumper deal with Mecalac Norwest Plant, Mecalac’s official dealer for North Wales and the North West of England, has agreed a multi-million pound deal with B&W Plant Hire to add 71 state-of-the-art site dumpers to its fleet in 2021. Headquartered in...
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Mott MacDonald develops masterplan for first hydrogen transport hub in UK
Mott MacDonald develops masterplan for first hydrogen transport hub in UK Mott MacDonald has developed a masterplan for the UK’s first ever multi-modal hydrogen transport hub for the UK Department for Transport (DfT). Development of the hub will be kickstarted with £3m in government funding and coul...
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Kaman K-MAX gets to work with Black Tusk Helicopter in Canada
Kaman K-MAX gets to work with Black Tusk Helicopter in Canada Kaman Air Vehicles announced they have delivered a new medium-to-heavy lift K-MAX® helicopter to Black Tusk Helicopter Inc. of Squamish, BC, Canada. Black Tusk performs various external lift projects of every scale, ranging from aerial ti...
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Granite JV awarded $42m US Air Force Base project in Guam
Granite JV awarded $42m US Air Force Base project in Guam The joint venture team comprised of Granite and Obayashi Corporation has been awarded the P3001 Standoff Weapons Complex at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Pacific. As consolidating partner, the $42...
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TruckLabs successfully tests TruckWings to save diesel
TruckLabs successfully tests TruckWings to save diesel TruckLabs, a technology company helping transform the trucking industry, announced today that Maxway Trucking, a provider of specialized freight services in the western region of the United States, has adopted TruckLabs’ patented TruckWings tech...
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Esri fleet tracking partner Track Star integrates ArcGIS Platform
Esri fleet tracking partner Track Star integrates ArcGIS Platform Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced that its partner, GPS fleet management firm Track Star, is entirely rebuilding its automatic vehicle location software (AVLS) product around ArcGIS Platform. With acces...
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FulcrumAir receives Certification to Fly Drones Beyond Visual Line of Sight
FulcrumAir receives Certification to Fly Drones Beyond Visual Line of Sight FulcrumAir has announced that it has been granted permission from Transport Canada to operate its E2500 UAS within a powerline environment “Beyond Visual Line Sight” (BVLOS) throughout Canada (Class G airspace outside of an...
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Monnit launches IoT Soil Moisture Sensor to create Smart Agriculture
Monnit launches IoT Soil Moisture Sensor to create Smart Agriculture Monnit announced today the launch of its ALTA® Soil Moisture Sensor. Primed to meet AgriTech market demand, the Soil Moisture Sensor alerts you on your mobile device or computer how much, when, and where to water your crops or comm...
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Innovyze and Técnicas de Ingeniería y Software bringing Smart Water to Madrid
Innovyze and Técnicas de Ingeniería y Software bringing Smart Water to Madrid Innovyze, the global leader in water software solutions, and their partners Técnicas de Ingeniería y Software, have announced a powerful solution to upgrade water infrastructure for Canal Isabel ll of Madrid, Spain. Commis...
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Bring your iPad to life with the ZAGG Pro Stylus
Bring your iPad to life with the ZAGG Pro Stylus The one accessory for your iPad that you can’t do without is a stylus, and ZAGG have just released their sleek Pro Stylus, which is a really good alternative to the expensive Apple Pencil. While navigating with your fingertips is really practica...
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5 tips for sufficient land research in 2021
5 tips for sufficient land research in 2021 When it comes to getting a profitable project off the ground, establishing a suitable plot is of paramount importance. This forms the very foundation of your development and promises to determine your project’s long-term success. However, there are lots of...
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SPIE UK puts safety first with maintenance contract at Calor Gas Port Clarence facility
SPIE UK puts safety first with maintenance contract at Calor Gas Port Clarence facility SPIE UK, the British subsidiary of SPIE, the independent European leader for multi-technical services in the areas of energy and communications, has announced a contract with Calor Gas for the long-term maintenan...
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Romal Capital £100m waterfront development to bring Sydney to Liverpool
Romal Capital £100m waterfront development to bring Sydney to Liverpool Global property developer Romal Capital has reinforced its commitment to Liverpool’s Central Docks by committing £100m to transform the derelict brownfield area to realise their vision of Sydney in Liverpool’s city centre. In th...
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JCB rebounds with 700 new permanent placements
JCB rebounds with 700 new permanent placements JCB today launched a fresh recruitment drive for hundreds more shop floor employees and announced plans to give hundreds more agency employees permanent contracts as demand for construction equipment continues to soar. Last month the company revealed it...
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O’Hare International Airport Terminal 5 to get high-tech View Smart Windows
O’Hare International Airport Terminal 5 to get high-tech View Smart Windows View, Inc., a market leader in smart glass, announced its smart windows will be installed in the new 350,000-square-foot expansion of Terminal 5 at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD). The expansion is part of...
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Iteris awarded $1.2m Texas DOT IDIQ Contract for Smart Mobility and Traffic Engineering
Iteris awarded $1.2m Texas DOT IDIQ Contract for Smart Mobility and Traffic Engineering Iteris, Inc., a global leader in smart mobility infrastructure management, today announced that it has been awarded a three-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Texas Department of...
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Esri joins the Digital Twin Consortium
Esri joins the Digital Twin Consortium Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced it has joined the Digital Twin Consortium. This authoritative community of users brings together industry, government, and academia to drive consistency in vocabulary, architecture, security, and...
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RealWear accelerates leadership position in hands-free wearable computing
RealWear accelerates leadership position in hands-free wearable computing The global leader in hands-free wearable computing for industry, RealWear, today announced that strong customer demand has accelerated its number one position, reporting triple (3X) year-over-year growth. The company also anno...
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Intel introduces 11th generation Intel Core for unmatched performance
Intel introduces 11th generation Intel Core for unmatched performance The 11th Gen Intel® Core™ S-series desktop processors (code-named “Rocket Lake-S”) launched worldwide today, led by the flagship Intel® Core™ i9-11900K. Reaching speeds of up to 5.3GHz with Intel® Thermal Velocity Bo...
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Insight LiDAR enhances sensor with longer-range, high-resolution, 360 degree coverage
Insight LiDAR enhances sensor with longer-range, high-resolution, 360 degree coverage Insight LiDAR, a global leader in Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) LiDAR sensors on a chip, has announced the latest version of its high resolution, long-range FMCW lidar sensor for the automotive market....
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I Squared Capital awarded Asia Pacific Transport Investor of the Year
I Squared Capital awarded Asia Pacific Transport Investor of the Year I Squared Capital has been awarded the 2020 Asia Pacific Transport Investor of the Year Award for its investment in Cube Highways by Private Equity International (PEI) and Infrastructure Investor Magazine. These awards recognize t...
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CAT updates Cold Planers based on milling customers feedback
CAT updates Cold Planers based on milling customers feedback New product updates to the versatile and productive Cat® PM620, PM622, PM820, PM822 and PM825 half-lane cold planers include numerous improvements based on customer feedback to ease operation and lower owning and operating costs. Five year...
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Cat new GC Series single drum vibratory soil compactors simplify operations
Cat new GC Series single drum vibratory soil compactors simplify operations Caterpillar expands its single drum vibratory soil compactor line with the introduction of the new 84-in (2134 mm) Cat® GC Series, built for simple operation, high reliability and low cost-per-hour performance. Offering high...
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Ford Dagenham to provide advanced technology diesel engines for Ford Transits
Ford Dagenham to provide advanced technology diesel engines for Ford Transits Ford announced today that Ford Dagenham Engine Plant to the east of London will manufacture the latest advanced technology diesel engines for the next generation Ford Transit Custom range. The next generation Ford Transit...
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New CAT 140 GC Motor Grader delivers higher performance at lower cost per hour
New CAT 140 GC Motor Grader delivers higher performance at lower cost per hour The new Cat® 140 GC motor grader is designed to combine high performance with low owning and operating costs. The 140 GC’s powerful Cat C7.1 engine, 6F/3R automatic power-shift transmission (which eliminates the inc...
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Siltbuster helping to protect Aquatic Ecosystems on £200m M55 motorway project
Siltbuster helping to protect Aquatic Ecosystems on £200m M55 motorway project Siltbuster, the leading water treatment specialist, has provided Costain with four modular treatment solutions, to be used during the delivery of the £200m Preston Western Distributor Road, linking Preston and southern Fy...
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REE unveils REEcorners and EV Platforms designed for Commercial Electric Vehicles
REE unveils REEcorners and EV Platforms designed for Commercial Electric Vehicles REE Automotive, an innovator in e-mobility, which recently announced its merger with 10X Capital Venture Acquisition Corp., today revealed 5 new and improved REEcorner™ architecture designs and the technology be...
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Next Generation Electric Ford Transit to be built in Turkey
Next Generation Electric Ford Transit to be built in Turkey Ford today confirmed that the next generation Ford Transit Custom range will include an all-electric model in addition to plug-in hybrid, mild hybrid and conventional engine variants. The new Custom range – which includes the Transit Custom...
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New Cat D7 Dozer delivers performance and productivity-boosting technology
New Cat D7 Dozer delivers performance and productivity-boosting technology The new Cat® D7 dozer offers high drive undercarriage design, increased performance and the broadest choice of easy-to-use technology features to help customers get the most from the bulldozer. A fully automatic 4-speed trans...
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Marketing your construction and building products to Architects
Marketing your construction and building products to Architects Getting your products in front of architects may feel like an impossible task, especially in the current climate. It’s important for any manufacturer not only sell the technical benefits of the product but to understand the exact needs...
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IRENA and IDB accelerate sustainable energy for Latin America and the Caribbean
IRENA and IDB accelerate sustainable energy for Latin America and the Caribbean On March 9 the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) signed a partnership to drive energy transition in Latin America and the Caribbean to meet their 2030 Agenda for...
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Wirtgen SP 154(i) Concrete Slipform Paving Train connects Prague and Brno
Wirtgen SP 154(i) Concrete Slipform Paving Train connects Prague and Brno During the modernization of the D1 freeway between the Czech Republic’s two largest cities, two slipform pavers and a texture curing machine from Wirtgen rehabilitated a 67 km stretch of freeway in the direction of Prague. Dur...
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Point of Rental and Vertex partner to simplify end-to-end tax management
Point of Rental and Vertex partner to simplify end-to-end tax management Point of Rental Software announced its partnership with Vertex, Inc., a global provider of tax technology solutions. Its Point of Rental Elite dashboard now integrates with Vertex® Cloud Indirect Tax®, a powerful SaaS tax solut...
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Cortec organic biobased Rust Remover powered by EcoAir Technology
Cortec organic biobased Rust Remover powered by EcoAir Technology Conventional rust removers can be very dangerous to use, handle, and store. For this reason Cortec® spent decades developing environmental safe corrosion protection solutions. Utilizing latest technology, Cortec scientists created U...
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Carnell expanding renewable fuel use after 90 percent emissions cut in Speedy trial
Carnell expanding renewable fuel use after 90 percent emissions cut in Speedy trial Highways maintenance contractor Carnell plan to expand its use of renewable fuel to power its projects after cutting its CO2e emissions on a Carlisle scheme by 90%. The trial delivered with construction services prov...
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Perceived high costs of charging Electric vehicles seen as a barrier to adoption
Perceived high costs of charging Electric vehicles seen as a barrier to adoption The perceived high charging costs of electric vehicles is a key barrier preventing consumers switching from combustion to battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs), according to new research launched today. The findings...
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Liebherr puts 25 tower cranes to work on the Überseequartier project in Hamburg
Liebherr puts 25 tower cranes to work on the Überseequartier project in Hamburg 25 Liebherr tower cranes are involved in the construction of the Überseequartier, a new district in Hamburg. This is part of the well-known HafenCity urban development project and comprises 14 buildings of various types....
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Invest in a sustainable future with Digital Twin technology
Invest in a sustainable future with Digital Twin technology The world is building more significant projects in larger numbers than at any time in history. Our planet must accommodate the equivalent of 10,000 new cities by 2050 to keep pace with the projected population explosion. 70% of the world’s...
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Construction of M+ museum in Hong Kong completed
Construction of M+ museum in Hong Kong completed M+ has reached the important milestone marking the completion of construction of the museum building. With the Occupation Permit for the museum building obtained on 24 December 2020, M+ is set to open to the public at the end of 2021. Designed by a gl...
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SENNEBOGEN Material Handler 870 Hybrid crawls in to action for BUS Bendorf
SENNEBOGEN Material Handler 870 Hybrid crawls in to action for BUS Bendorf With over 6,000 operating hours, the SENNEBOGEN 870 Hybrid has already moved a lot in the inland port of Bendorf: Since 2017, the port colossus with crawler tracks has been on the quay of the company Bendorfer Umschlag- und S...
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Ritchie Bros extends support for US DoD with new surplus term sale contracts
Ritchie Bros extends support for US DoD with new surplus term sale contracts Ritchie Bros.‘ GovPlanet marketplace has been helping the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) sell thousands of its surplus rolling stock assets for the past seven years. Three year...
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Mathematicians crack the Sum of Cubes puzzle for 42 and discover a solution for 3
Mathematicians crack the Sum of Cubes puzzle for 42 and discover a solution for 3 What do you do after solving the answer to life, the universe, and everything? If you’re mathematicians Drew Sutherland and Andy Booker, you go for the harder problem. In 2019, Booker, at the University of Bristol, and...
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Data centres now a vital fifth utility amid COVID and set to rise to $948bn by 2030
Data centres now a vital fifth utility amid COVID and set to rise to $948bn by 2030 The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vital importance of data centres and turned them into a fifth utility that is as critical as water, electricity, gas and telecoms, says GlobalData, a leading data and analyti...
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Sevan multi-site solutions celebrate 10 years of Zero Worksite Accidents
Sevan multi-site solutions celebrate 10 years of Zero Worksite Accidents Sevan Multi-Site Solutions, Inc., a leader in innovative design, program management, construction services and data analytics — has had zero accidents on worksites in 10 years. Sevan has displayed an exemplary safety record sin...
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Albertsons and Tortoise launch remote-controlled delivery cart trials in California
Albertsons and Tortoise launch remote-controlled delivery cart trials in California Albertsons Companies announced today that it has partnered with Tortoise, an automated logistics company focused on last-mile solutions, to pilot its remote-controlled zero-emission delivery cart in Northern Californ...
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Seegrid launches the first Autonomous Lift-truck
Seegrid launches the first Autonomous Lift-truck Seegrid Corporation, the leader in autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for material handling, premiered a new autonomous lift truck, Palion Lift AMR, further expanding the capabilities of the company’s fleet of mobile robotics solutions. The latest additi...
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Thales set to digitize Deutsche Bahn Stuttgart Signalling System
Thales set to digitize Deutsche Bahn Stuttgart Signalling System As a part of the initial “Digital railways Germany” package, Deutsche Bahn is equipping the Stuttgart region with a digital signalling system (DSTW), the European Train Control System (ETCS) and Automatic Train Operations (ATO) with dr...
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Fortune magazine ranks AECOM most admired infrastructure company in the world
Fortune magazine ranks AECOM most admired infrastructure company in the world AECOM, a world leading infrastructure consulting firm, announced that it has been ranked No. 1 on Fortune magazine’s list of the World’s Most Admired Companies in its industry. This is the seventh consecutive year t...
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Quartz launches Concrete Deck Analysis software for pre-pour element verification
Quartz launches Concrete Deck Analysis software for pre-pour element verification Quartz Systems, a construction technology company leveraging advanced perception systems to track and understand everything on a construction site, launched Concrete Deck Analysis, a product that lets teams quickly and...
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HyperLight demonstrates Integrated Optical Engine to Push Data at Terabits per Second
HyperLight demonstrates Integrated Optical Engine to Push Data at Terabits per Second Engineers from HyperLight, a leader in the commercialization of thin-film lithium niobate (LN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs), have achieved breakthrough voltage-bandwidth performances in integrated electro-op...
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First automotive-grade solid-state LiDAR production line launched in China
First automotive-grade solid-state LiDAR production line launched in China RoboSense announced the launch of China’s first automotive-grade solid-state LiDAR production line and would start mass production and delivery of the automotive-grade solid-state LiDAR RS-LiDAR-M1 for contract projects in Q2...
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GM accelerating an all-electric future with battery range and cost improvements
GM accelerating an all-electric future with battery range and cost improvements Today at a Washington Post Live virtual conference, General Motors President Mark Reuss provided more details about GM’s next-generation Ultium battery chemistry and announced a joint development agreement with lithium m...
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Mercury invests in Verity enterprise software for construction verification in Ireland
Mercury invests in Verity enterprise software for construction verification in Ireland Mercury, a leading European contractor headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, has purchased an enterprise licence for construction verification software, Verity, through Topcon Positioning Ireland. The purchase represe...
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Reduce accidents and revolutionise site safety with Connected Safety Net
Reduce accidents and revolutionise site safety with Connected Safety Net Developed to support workplace safety and reduce accidents, the Connected Safety Net is a digital platform that automates data collection, auditing, risk assessments and documentation processes, eliminating time consuming manua...
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AEye LiDAR powering the next generation of car and truck ADAS Solutions
AEye LiDAR powering the next generation of car and truck ADAS Solutions AEye, Inc., a global leader in active, high-performance LiDAR solutions, today announced that it has established new LiDAR performance standards across all major metrics in performance specification tests monitored, validated an...
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USUM Recycling celebrates successful Hyundai Wheel-Loader deployment
USUM Recycling celebrates successful Hyundai Wheel-Loader deployment Engineer Sven Heinisch manages the corporate group USUM, founded by his father in 1992, in the town of Steigra (50 km south-west of Halle/Saale). USUM stands for Unstrut-Saale-Umweltschutz (Unstrut-Saale Environmental Protection)....
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JCB armour plated excavator supports landmine clearance in Afghanistan
JCB armour plated excavator supports landmine clearance in Afghanistan Landmine clearance charity The HALO Trust is operating a fleet of JCB machines to help clear minefields in Afghanistan and they will soon be joined by their latest addition – an armour plated X Series tracked excavator. HALO’s pr...
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