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Winners announced at the Biodiversity Challenge Awards 2017
Winners announced at the Biodiversity Challenge Awards 2017 Last night’s BIG Biodiversity Challenge Awards saw a thrilling finale to this year’s competition, with eight well deserved winning entries revealed along with the overall winner of this year’s Challenge, as well as the first BIG Biodi...
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Parsons helps Bridges to Prosperity construct a footbridge in Panama
Parsons helps Bridges to Prosperity construct a footbridge in Panama Parsons, in partnership with Bridges to Prosperity (B2P), recently sent an 11-member team to Rio Grande—a small community of 200 people about 350 km outside of Panama City, Panama—to build a 47-m suspension footbridge over the Rio...
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ZÜBLIN, a Strabag subsidiary awarded €309m contract in Singapore
ZÜBLIN, a Strabag subsidiary awarded €309m contract in Singapore ZÜBLIN, a subsidiary of European-based construction group STRABAG SE, has been hired by PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, to build 11.9 km of tunnels for the sewerage system of the city. The contract is a part of the Deep Tunnel...
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Major boost for south-west England as plans published for £1.6 billion A303 Stonehenge upgrade
Major boost for south-west England as plans published for £1.6 billion A303 Stonehenge upgrade The route for the £1.6 billion A303 upgrade near Stonehenge, a key part of the ‘South West expressway’, has been published by Transport Secretary Chris Grayling. Linking the M3 in the south-east and the M5...
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Waikato Expressway bridges opening soon in New Zealand
Waikato Expressway bridges opening soon in New Zealand Two bridges that will cross the Hamilton Section of the Waikato Expressway are expected to open to traffic before Christmas 2017. The first – the Morrinsville Road Bridge – is expected to open in late October, followed by the Gordonton Road Brid...
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Balfour Beatty announces sale of Blackpool Airport to the local Council
Balfour Beatty announces sale of Blackpool Airport to the local Council Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, today announces that it has reached an agreement to sell its 95% share in Blackpool Airport to Blackpool Council, for a total cash consideration of £4.25 million. A Balfour...
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International bridging manufacturer amongst first to be certified to new global ethical business standard
International bridging manufacturer amongst first to be certified to new global ethical business standard Leading bridge and engineering services specialist Mabey announces today that it has become one of the first companies in the world to be independently certified to the ISO 37001 anti-bribery ma...
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Sandvik equipment essential for major Hong Kong infrastructure development
Sandvik equipment essential for major Hong Kong infrastructure development The Liantang/Heung Yuen Wai Boundary Control Point (BCP for short) is a series of infrastructure projects that will see the construction of the seventh land crossing between Shenzhen in China and Hong Kong. This will see the...
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Durability and accuracy with new screening media from Sandvik
Durability and accuracy with new screening media from Sandvik The all-new Sandvik WX6500 screening media, introduced at the Steinexpo show in Germany, August 30th to September 2nd, is a dependable, flexible screening media with a low environmental footprint. Offering unmatched uptime, it is designed...
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Making New Zealand’s Coromandel Loop safer for riders
Making New Zealand’s Coromandel Loop safer for riders Construction has begun on a $2.5 million project to install a range of bike safety treatments aimed at keeping motorcyclists safer on the Northern Coromandel Loop. Safer Rides, the multi-agency project, builds on a pilot undertaken in 2014...
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Zambia to get US$1.2bn highway from China
Zambia to get US$1.2bn highway from China Work has commenced on construction of a strategic road project that connects the southern and central parts of the country to the mining towns in the Copperbelt province of Zambia. The contractor is China Jiangxi Corporation for International Economic and Te...
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FHWA and Transtec Group release Intelligent Compaction guideline documents
FHWA and Transtec Group release Intelligent Compaction guideline documents Adequate and uniform compaction of road materials, such as soils, aggregate bases, and asphalt pavement materials, is one of the most important requirements in roadway construction. It is indispensable to strive for high qual...
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Shell plans project with ITM Power for bulk hydrogen production through electrolysis
Shell plans project with ITM Power for bulk hydrogen production through electrolysis Shell, together with ITM Power, plans a project to install a large scale electrolyser to produce hydrogen at the Wesseling refinery site within the Rheinland Refinery Complex. With a capacity of ten megawatts, this...
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Re-designed Jamarat Bridge successfully increases crowd safety during the Hajj Pilgrimage
Re-designed Jamarat Bridge successfully increases crowd safety during the Hajj Pilgrimage Between Aug. 30 and Sept. 5, an estimated 3 million Muslims will complete their holy pilgrimage to Mecca as part of Hajj week, the largest annual gathering of people on Earth. With as many as 300,000 people exp...
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ALE reaches first milestone launching bridge in Serbia
ALE reaches first milestone launching bridge in Serbia ALE Heavy Lift has reached the first project milestone of the Zezelj bridge launch in Novi Sad, Serbia, and has completed the launch of the first section. The global heavylifting providers were contracted by Azvi to perform the bridge launch. Th...
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Accidental discovery creates solid Bitumen Balls
Accidental discovery creates solid Bitumen Balls Ian Gates describes each pebble of bitumen as resembling a liquid-filled headache capsule and, for Alberta, Canada, struggling to build pipelines, this tiny package could spell pain relief indeed. Freshly patented and weeks away from pilot-scale produ...
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Construction INNOVATION FACTORY to be launched in Scotland with industry event
Construction INNOVATION FACTORY to be launched in Scotland with industry event Construction Scotland Innovation Centre’s pioneering Innovation Factory will be officially launched at an industry event on Monday 11 September 2017 with keynote speakers include Crossrail Chief Executive, Andrew Wolstenh...
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BAM JV to build new €753m lock at Terneuzen between the Netherlands and Belgium
BAM JV to build new €753m lock at Terneuzen between the Netherlands and Belgium The Flemish-Dutch Scheldt Commission (Vlaams-Nederlandse Scheldecommissie, VNSC, a partnership between the Netherlands and Flanders for jointly managing the Scheldt estuary) has commissioned the Sassevaart joint venture...
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Partial runway reconstruction for Detroit Metro Airport
Partial runway reconstruction for Detroit Metro Airport Milling the old asphalt runway structure becomes key It was almost as though the $225-million runway that the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) had added in 2001 was jinxed from the get-go. Expected to last 30 years, Runway 4L/22R...
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GSSI introduces a handheld all-in-one GPR Concrete Inspection System
GSSI introduces a handheld all-in-one GPR Concrete Inspection System GSSI, the world’s leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, announces the availability of a new accessory for the industry standard StructureScan Mini XT. The Palm XT is a miniaturized GPR antenna that is de...
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A Perry and Co invest £4 million to drive growth and UK Midlands Engine success
A Perry & Co invest £4 million to drive growth and UK Midlands Engine success His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent is officially opening the new modern 100,000 sq ft warehouse and manufacturing facilities at A Perry & Co (Hinges) Ltd on Thursday, 21 September 2017, highlighting its continuing...
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Dynamic speed bumps crossing the ocean from Sweden to Australia
Dynamic speed bumps crossing the ocean from Sweden to Australia The tech company Edeva from Sweden has developed a dynamic speed bump, called the Actibump, that has proven its efficiency through years of use in Sweden. The Actibump product has turned some heads in the international traffic safety bu...
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Politicians unite across party divide as Heathrow pushes regional growth
Politicians unite across party divide as Heathrow pushes regional growth Aviation Minister and Shadow Transport Secretary celebrate Heathrow as a ‘jobs booster’ for the North East. Best of the North East businesses on show at Heathrow’s first Business Summit North East. Key plank of Heathrow’s plan...
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STRABAG JV helps with €122m expansion of Dubrovnik Airport
STRABAG JV helps with €122m expansion of Dubrovnik Airport The European-based construction group STRABAG is helping to modernise and expand Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia. The € 122 million contract will be carried out by a joint venture in which STRABAG holds a 53.92 % share. The modernisation and ex...
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Technology improves efficiency for Canadian Contractor to help meet a tight deadline
Technology improves efficiency for Canadian Contractor to help meet a tight deadline It appears that when S. Dilawri Automotive Group does something big… it is really big. Dilawri is Canada’s largest group of auto dealers with franchised dealerships representing 30 automotive brands throughout...
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Australian construction signs to include Chinese
Australian construction signs to include Chinese New multilingual signs are being rolled out along the Great Ocean Road to help international tourists safely navigate one of Victoria’s most popular tourist routes. In an Australian-first, trucks undertaking road works on the Great Ocean Road are now...
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Hitachi unveils a first for the construction industry
Hitachi unveils a first for the construction industry Hitachi has developed an industry-leading innovation as part of its ConSite remote fleet monitoring system. The first of its kind in the construction industry, it extracts data from two unique sensors that monitor the quality of an excavator’s en...
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Mabey secures £1.7m contract to provide ten bridges for National Grid project in the UK
Mabey secures £1.7m contract to provide ten bridges for National Grid project in the UK Leading international bridge and engineering services specialist Mabey has secured a contract worth £1.7 million from Carillion to deliver and install a number of temporary bridges to facilitate the construction...
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Recycling 100 miles of highway in San José, day and night with Wirtgen
Recycling 100 miles of highway in San José, day and night with Wirtgen In San José, USA, in-situ cold recycling with a Wirtgen 3800 CR recycler proves to be the most economical solution. Time is money, especially in road construction. When it comes to cost efficiency, being able to put all equipment...
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Concrete hydrodemolition technology used in Johannesburg bridge rehabilitation
Concrete hydrodemolition technology used in Johannesburg bridge rehabilitation Major structural repairs to the M1 North highway bridges over Oxford and Federation Roads in Johannesburg were recently completed. The removal of superfluous concrete in preparation was made possible through hydrodemoliti...
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How to get a good return from your road safety investment
How to get a good return from your road safety investment The latest reported road casualties in Great Britain figures are due out later this month. Based on the last 5 years of results, a sudden decline in road deaths in not anticipated. Improvements in the number of deaths on our roads have stagna...
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Mburg Mini Plant in South Africa relies on Kubota mini-excavator for tight access
Mburg Mini Plant in South Africa relies on Kubota mini-excavator for tight access Tight working areas are the order of the day in Mburg Mini Plant’s line of work, and to prevail over space-constrained jobsites, the Western Cape-based company recently took delivery of a 3 t Kubota U30-6 mini-excavato...
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Ground Remediation Contractor Deep Soil Mixing Ltd opens new office in Belfast
Ground Remediation Contractor Deep Soil Mixing Ltd opens new office in Belfast The unveiling of a new office this September marks continued growth for Deep Soil Mixing Ltd, the specialist ground remediation and soil stabilisation contractor who has opened an office at College House, Citylink Busines...
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Fastsource hails their Volvo Excavators best on the market
Fastsource hails their Volvo Excavators best on the market … is the considered opinion of Fastsource Director, Keith Blasket, as he adds another Volvo excavator to his plant fleet And joining his mixed fleet of equipment which includes existing Volvo excavators, dozers, wheeled loaders, crushing and...
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Serbian Teko Mining increases quality and capacity with Metso crushing and screening solutions
Serbian Teko Mining increases quality and capacity with Metso crushing and screening solutions Teko Mining, Serbia’s largest aggregates producer has selected Metso to provide crushing and screening equipment for two of their quarries in Serbia. Estimated to be operational somewhere in Septembe...
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Alaskan contractor Valley General benefits from technology for quick and quality work
Alaskan contractor Valley General benefits from technology for quick and quality work For most people the acronym, JSCCR, is a definite puzzler. What it stands for is Juniper, Spruce, Cranberry, Cottonwood, and Rose, which are the names of the roads in a heavily-wooded residential subdivision locate...
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Pavement optimisation helps support entrepreneurs in County Durham
Pavement optimisation helps support entrepreneurs in County Durham A flexible and reactive approach to optimising pavement design has delivered cost savings on the expansion of a science and technology park in County Durham. Durham County Council’s £5.1m NETPark Phase 3A Infrastructure project will...
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Precast Concrete drainage components used for Phoenixville’s New School Stormwater Management System
Precast Concrete drainage components used for Phoenixville’s New School Stormwater Management System Oldcastle Precast recently supplied over 11,000-feet Class III reinforced concrete pipe, along with multiple precast concrete stormwater drainage and sanitary structures for Phoenixville Area School...
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Overcoming barriers to highways innovation
Overcoming barriers to highways innovation Removing barriers to adopting innovation and ensuring standards keep pace with technical developments is vital if we are to meet future infrastructure needs, says Tensar Highways Technical Manager Craig Andrews. More than £460bn is set to be spent on the UK...
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Plans to improve busy junction on the M2 in England unveiled today
Plans to improve busy junction on the M2 in England unveiled today Proposed major improvements to make journeys safer and more reliable for drivers using junction 5 on the M2 have been unveiled by Highways England today (Wednesday 6 September). The M2 is a key route which links London with Rochester...
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Cat Phones introduces 3 new additions to its range of rugged devices
Cat Phones introduces 3 new additions to its range of rugged devices Cat phones has introduced three new additions to its portfolio which see important updates to its rugged and resilient Cat Smartphone range and the first release of a rugged tablet. The launches build on Cat phones’ heritage of cre...
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President of Ecuador marks construction of US$1 billion deep water port
President of Ecuador marks construction of US$1 billion deep water port On the first of September the President of Ecuador Lenín Moreno and DP World Group Chairman and CEO, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem performed a ground-breaking ceremony to mark the start of construction of the greenfield multi-purpose...
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Stress absorbing membrane delivers a stronger, safer and more reliable motorway
Stress absorbing membrane delivers a stronger, safer and more reliable motorway A Stress Absorbing Membrane Interlayer has delivered stronger, safer and more reliable running lanes for the M3 smart motorway project in Surrey. More than 130,000 vehicles use the M3 between Junctions 2 (Thorpe and the...
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Metso presents latest innovations for the mining industry at Exposibram 2017
Metso presents latest innovations for the mining industry at Exposibram 2017 At Exposibram, the largest mining exhibition in Latin America, Metso will introduce its latest innovations for mining industry, including UltraFine Screen, and the industry-changing MX4(TM) cone crusher featuring Multi-Acti...
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South Africa awards N2 Wild Coast Bridge Tender to Stabag JV
South Africa awards N2 Wild Coast Bridge Tender to Stabag JV The tender for the much anticipated Mtentu bridge, which forms part of the N2 Wild Coast road (N2WC) project has been awarded, the South African National Roads Agency SOC Ltd (SANRAL) announced today. Construction of the bridge is set to s...
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JCB secures £10m deal for gas powered generators
JCB secures £10m deal for gas powered generators JCB has secured a deal worth £10 million which will see the company’s first major entry into the gas powered generator sector. The company’s Power Products division based in Hixon, Stafford, has been enjoying growing success supplying generators to a...
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Zambia announces EOI for Consultancy for Chinsali to Nakonde Road Rehabilitation project
Zambia announces EOI for Consultancy for Chinsali to Nakonde Road Rehabilitation project The Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) has received financing from the African Development Bank toward the cost of the Chinsali to Nakonde Road Rehabilitation Project (North-South Corridor) and intends t...
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Doka celebrates the forming of its 1,000th highrise
Doka celebrates the forming of its 1,000th highrise Competence at any height Every highrise is unique – as is the associated formwork solution. Competence is crucial for developing a custom formwork solution. In the high rise sector Doka has more than 40 years’ experience with self-climbing fo...
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CPB Contractors wins Pacific Highway upgrade works in Australia
CPB Contractors wins Pacific Highway upgrade works in Australia CPB Contractors has been selected by Roads and Maritime Services to deliver main civil work for the Devils Pulpit to Richmond River section of the Woolgoolga and Ballina Pacific Highway upgrade in northern New South Wales. The construct...
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Britain bids to build bigger Heathrow
Britain bids to build bigger Heathrow Over 120 sites from across Britain have applied to help build an expanded Heathrow, an overwhelming show of support for the nation’s most critical infrastructure project. In April, Heathrow invited communities across Britain to showcase how their area could help...
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Fastbrick Robotics wins national Innovation Awards in Australia
Fastbrick Robotics wins national Innovation Awards in Australia Australian robotic technology company Fastbrick Robotics Limited has received two National Innovation Awards at Australia’s premier innovation awards event. The iAwards were held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on Wedn...
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Metso delivers 500th Lokotrack Crusher to Germany for Andres Erdarbeiten at Steinexpo
Metso delivers 500th Lokotrack Crusher to Germany for Andres Erdarbeiten at Steinexpo Metso reached another significant milestone in Lokotrack sales by delivering today the 500th unit sold to Germany at Steinexpo, the biggest quarry exhibition in Europe. The LT120 jaw plant was received by Andres Er...
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Louis Berger selected as design consultant for interstate road modernization in India
Louis Berger selected as design consultant for interstate road modernization in India The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has selected Louis Berger to provide consultancy services for the preparation of detailed designs to upgrade roads (approximately 820 kilometres in total length) for...
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Biggest road upgrade in the UK leads the way on environment
Biggest road upgrade in the UK leads the way on environment Industry-leading environmental work taking place on the biggest road construction project in the UK Project designed to leave a positive legacy for the local environment on completion Construction activity designed to minimise impact on the...
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Volvo CE fuels workforce development in North America
Volvo CE fuels workforce development in North America From donating equipment to Pennsylvania College of Technology to participating in national skills competitions in North America, Volvo CE is helping students start a career in the construction industry. Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is...
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Insufficient careers advice in the UK puts £90bn GDP at risk
Insufficient careers advice in the UK puts £90bn GDP at risk Almost three quarters (74%) of parents feel that careers advice in schools is too focused on academia. Over half (57%) say tuition fees put them off encouraging their child to go to university. Lack of knowledge of the many different entry...
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Volvo CE completes sale of GB dealership
Volvo CE completes sale of GB dealership After a period of employee consultation, Volvo Construction Equipment has concluded the sale of its Volvo Construction Equipment GB dealership to long term distribution partner SMT, through its newly established subsidiary, Services Machinery & Trucks Ltd...
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Liebherr, a breath of fresh air for Berlin Transport Authority trams
Liebherr, a breath of fresh air for Berlin Transport Authority trams The Berlin Transport Authority (BVG) recently ordered the delivery and installation of 372 retrofit kits in low-floor trams – this comes after Liebherr-Transportation Systems had installed an occupancy-dependent fresh air control s...
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Ditch Witch partners with Utilicor Technologies to simplify keyhole coring
Ditch Witch partners with Utilicor Technologies to simplify keyhole coring Utilicor keyhole coring and reinstatement products offer solution to simplify utility repairs, saving contractors and municipalities time, money and disruption Public works managers across the nation have welcomed the use of...
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Roadtec large Soil Stabilizer-Reclaimer handles challenging applications
Roadtec large Soil Stabilizer-Reclaimer handles challenging applications The Roadtec SX-8e/ex is the largest in the Roadtec line of soil stabillizer-reclaimer machines. With an operating weight of 82,000 pounds (37,195 kg), the SX-8 is capable of cutting up to 20 inches (508mm) deep and 100 inches (...
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