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Australia upgrades the Warrego Highway in Queensland
Australia upgrades the Warrego Highway in Queensland Queensland motorists are a step closer to being safer after a joint venture between FKG Group and McIlwain Civil was awarded the contract to upgrade the Warrego Highway through Dalby. The upgrade will focus on improving conditions for motorists an...
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McCann demonstrates top quality drainage works in Yorkshire, England
McCann demonstrates top quality drainage works in Yorkshire, England Nottingham-based Civil and Electrical Engineering firm, McCann, has successfully completed essential drainage maintenance work on the A64 at the Brambling Fields junction, North Yorkshire. The scheme, in conjunction with Highways E...
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Britain’s leading equipment rental company A-Plant invests £55 million for 1,200 JCB machines
Britain’s leading equipment rental company A-Plant invests £55 million for 1,200 JCB machines JCB has secured one of its biggest-ever deals in the UK – an order for more than 1,200 machines and a range of generators worth more than £55 million. A-Plant – the country’s leading equipment r...
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Uganda releases procurement notice for 78.5km road upgrade project
Uganda releases procurement notice for 78.5km road upgrade project The Government of Uganda has received a loan (No: 2100150032194) from the African Development Fund (ADF) towards the cost of the Road Sector Support Project (RSSP) V, and it intends to apply part of the proceeds of this loan to payme...
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UK based Wickes launches TradePro Loyalty Programme
UK based Wickes launches TradePro Loyalty Programme Home improvement retailer Wickes has launched a new loyalty programme exclusively for trade customers – called Wickes TradePro – offering 10% off purchases in-store or online throughout the year, with no minimum spend. Available now, trade customer...
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Doka’s Concremote concrete sensor technology crowned “Commercial Innovation of the year”
Doka’s Concremote concrete sensor technology crowned “Commercial Innovation of the year” Doka UK was awarded for the innovative concrete- sensor technology Concremote with this year’s Construction News Award. Concremote allows construction firms to digitally monitor their con...
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Volvo EC750E 75 tonne crawler excavator makes Eastern European debut
Volvo EC750E 75 tonne crawler excavator makes Eastern European debut Polish cement company, Cementownia Warta’s Volvo EC750E crawler excavator is the first of its kind in Eastern Europe, powering productivity at its limestone operations. Cement is arguably the most important construction material. B...
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Targeting night-time road safety will reduce fatal accidents
Targeting night-time road safety will reduce fatal accidents The 11th road safety performance index report was released last month. This report monitors progress on the European Union’s commitment to reduce road deaths by 50% between 2010 and 2020, and ranks all EU countries according to the percent...
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New Cat D3K2 Mulcher hybrid combines the solid Cat D3K2 Dozer with the rugged Cat HM518 Mulcher
New Cat D3K2 Mulcher hybrid combines the solid Cat D3K2 Dozer with the rugged Cat HM518 Mulcher The new, factory-built Cat® D3K2 mulcher combines the solid foundation of the Cat D3K2 dozer with the ruggedly designed Cat HM518 mulcher to take on a mix of small to medium diameter material in a wide ra...
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Anniversary of tunnel opening sees the Hindhead area recognised as a wildlife haven
Anniversary of tunnel opening sees the Hindhead area recognised as a wildlife haven The Devil’s Punch Bowl, once separated from Hindhead Common by the A3, has become one of the top wildlife sites in south east England. The huge improvements to the area in recent years are the result of the creation...
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The Nucleus to help Handiss build a better world with engineers and architects
The Nucleus to help Handiss build a better world with engineers and architects Tech-driven startup, building bridges between clients with construction projects and the engineers and architects needed to deliver them, plans to go global with boost from powerful venture building program. A new startup...
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£100 million viaduct repair to begin on the M5 in England
£100 million viaduct repair to begin on the M5 in England A three-way joint venture between BAM, Morgan Sindall and VolkerFitzpatrick has secured the £100 million-plus project to refurbish the Oldbury viaduct on the M5 in the Midlands. The elevated section of the motorway between junctions one and t...
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Radar measurement technology brings accuracy and productivity to cement plants
Radar measurement technology brings accuracy and productivity to cement plants New radar technology offers accurate continuous level measurement in cement plants not affected by internal structural objects and build-ups in silos. A variety of issues affect accurate continuous level measurement in ce...
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The Manitou Group completes its acquisition in LiftRite Hire and Sales in Australia
The Manitou Group completes its acquisition in LiftRite Hire and Sales in Australia The Manitou group, world leader in all-terrain material handling, finalized its acquisition of a majority stake (55%) in the Australian company LiftRite. Thanks to a supplementary call option, the group will hold a 9...
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Trimble and Propeller Aero collaborate on unmanned aircraft for construction
Trimble and Propeller Aero collaborate on unmanned aircraft for construction Trimble has announced it is collaborating with Propeller Aero to distribute its Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) analytics platform. Propeller, based in Sydney and Denver, is a leader in the advanced collection, visualization...
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Balfour Beatty reaches key milestone on its Perth Transport Futures Project
Balfour Beatty reaches key milestone on its Perth Transport Futures Project Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has reached a key milestone in the first phase of its Perth Transport Futures project with the steel beams to support the new road bridge on the A9 dual carriageway now...
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4 important safety tips for Concrete Dowel Drilling
4 important safety tips for Concrete Dowel Drilling Employers pay nearly US$1 billion per week in direct workers’ compensation costs in the USA, according to some estimates, reports OSHA. Indirect costs add up further. Road construction, public works and related outdoor jobs that require large tools...
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BGC Contracting Pty Ltd wins major A$4.3 billion contract for the Australia NSW Pacific Highway
BGC Contracting Pty Ltd wins major A$4.3 billion contract for the Australia NSW Pacific Highway Leading Australian mining and construction firm BGC Contracting Pty Ltd has continued its expansion into NSW by winning a contract to deliver the main civil construction work for a section of the $4.36 bi...
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China opens 2,768 km Silk Road highway from Beijing to Mongolia
China opens 2,768 km Silk Road highway from Beijing to Mongolia A new highway between Beijing and Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is now officially open traffic. The 2,768 km Jingxin Expressway G7 links six provinces and regions – Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongoli...
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7,000 new jobs will be created in Australia on the Victoria Metro Tunnel Project
7,000 new jobs will be created in Australia on the Victoria Metro Tunnel Project The Andrews Labor Government is creating thousands of local jobs and using Victorian businesses to build the biggest public transport project in Victorian history – the Metro Tunnel. Premier Daniel Andrews visited Spots...
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NETZSCH multiple screw pumps deliver superior asphalt handling
NETZSCH multiple screw pumps deliver superior asphalt handling Leading screw pump manufacturer’s smart technology surmounts challenges Sometimes mined, but most often manufactured, the transportation and handling of asphalt is a challenging enterprise. Asphalt in the latter form is a carefully extra...
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Parsons partners with Bridges to Prosperity to construct a footbridge in Panama
Parsons partners with Bridges to Prosperity to construct a footbridge in Panama An 11-member Parsons team will travel to Panama this summer to work alongside the non-profit charity Bridges to Prosperity to construct a footbridge for a small community of rice farmers. In 2015, Parsons committed to be...
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Colas wins contract to build rail extension for Tramway of Rabat in Morocco
Colas wins contract to build rail extension for Tramway of Rabat in Morocco The Tramway Company of Rabat-Salé (STRS) has entrusted Colas Rail and GTR, a road subsidiary of Colas in Morocco with the construction of the extension of line 2 of the Rabat-Salé tramway. The extension will serve the distri...
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Volvo makes a whitewater splash in Colorado
Volvo makes a whitewater splash in Colorado Colorado-based contractor, Whinnery Construction is employing Volvo excavators to navigate the Animas River, ensuring safe passageway for whitewater enthusiasts. Nestled in the Animas River Valley, surrounded by the San Juan Mountains is the city of Durang...
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Extremely rare Roman Sarcophagus discovered during construction in London
Extremely rare Roman Sarcophagus discovered during construction in London An archaeological gem, unearthed by builders from Galliard Construction, has been moved to the Museum of London, where its contents will be exhumed. Earlier this year Galliard Construction workers, who are currently building a...
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Providing local parking can be a juggling act
Providing local parking can be a juggling act There is a juggling act that Local Authorities face when providing parking facilities. They are having to face up to a no-win situation. If they please their residents by reserving parking spaces they will risk upsetting visitors. If they provide visitor...
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Tillicoultry Quarries in Scotland invests in a big 35 tonne Volvo L250H Loading Shovel
Tillicoultry Quarries in Scotland invests in a big 35 tonne Volvo L250H Loading Shovel Long standing user of Volvo Construction Equipment products, Tillicoultry Quarries, has purchased its largest Volvo loading shovel to date in the guise of the thirty five tonne L250H which takes up residence at th...
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Volvo’s ActiveCare Direct now free for one year on eligible new machine purchases
Volvo’s ActiveCare Direct now free for one year on eligible new machine purchases Originally debuted at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2017 with a limited-time enrolment offer, ActiveCare Direct is now available free for one year on new purchases of a wide range of Volvo Construction Equipment models. With A...
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Hitachi provides perfection for Millot TP’s excavator operators
Hitachi provides perfection for Millot TP’s excavator operators Millot TP has expanded its fleet of construction machinery with the purchase of two new Hitachi medium excavators and a wheel loader from Teramat, the local dealer for the Rhône-Alpes and Burgundy-Franche-Comté regions of France. The de...
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SIKA invests in Membrane production in Russia
SIKA invests in Membrane production in Russia Sika is expanding its product portfolio in Russia with the commissioning of a new production line for PVC membranes at its factory in Lobnya, near Moscow. It will now also manufacture high-performance thermoplastic membranes for waterproofing structures...
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£1.1 million junction improvements to benefit drivers, cyclists and pedestrians
£1.1 million junction improvements to benefit drivers, cyclists and pedestrians Drivers, cyclists and pedestrians are set to benefit from a £1.1 million scheme to improve safety at a busy junction near Ellesmere Port. The Highways England project at Two Mills, where the A550 meets the A540, is due t...
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Wirtgen at Steinexpo 2017 with world premiere from Kleemann
Wirtgen at Steinexpo 2017 with world premiere from Kleemann The Wirtgen Group will be showcasing tailored solutions for recycled material processing and quarry applications when it exhibits products from Kleemann and Benninghoven at the industry trade fair in Homberg/Nieder-Ofleiden, Germany, from A...
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Sales up 36% in strong second quarter at Volvo Construction Equipment
Sales up 36% in strong second quarter at Volvo Construction Equipment Transformation program and increasing demand in key markets helps boost Volvo CE in Q2 2017, with significant improvements in both sales and earnings. Driven by improvements in most major markets, Volvo Construction Equipment (Vol...
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Contractors selected for Victoria’s Metro Tunnel project delivering more Jobs, more Stations and more Trains
Contractors selected for Victoria’s Metro Tunnel project delivering more Jobs, more Stations and more Trains The design and builders for the biggest public transport project in Victoria’s history have been selected, paving the way for more trains and the creation of thousands of new jobs acros...
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M3 Motorway in England gets first ‘Orange’ Smart Motorway Emergency Area
M3 Motorway in England gets first ‘Orange’ Smart Motorway Emergency Area The first of a new-style smart motorway emergency area, where drivers can stop in an emergency, is being trialled on the M3 in Surrey. The redesigned emergency area has a highly visible orange road surface and better signs to h...
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First big HS2 contracts to build Britain’s new railway will support 16,000 jobs
First big HS2 contracts to build Britain’s new railway will support 16,000 jobs Winners of £6.6 billion worth of major construction contracts for HS2 Phase One announced. government confirms plans to extend HS2 from Birmingham to north-west, East Midlands and Yorkshiredecision announced on the first...
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EIB lends €1bn to co-finance Romania’s transport infrastructure projects
EIB lends €1bn to co-finance Romania’s transport infrastructure projects The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR 1bn to co-finance with European Structural and Investment Funds priority transport infrastructure projects totalling EUR 6.8bn to be implemented across Romania during the...
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JCB wins huge power generation deal at prestigious Canary Wharf
JCB wins huge power generation deal at prestigious Canary Wharf JCB Broadcrown has secured a contract to provide stand-by power at one of London’s most striking and mixed use developments. Standing 27 storeys high, the 700,000 sq ft development – known as One Bank Street – is being built...
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Max Fordham Environmental Design Prize awarded to stunning Viking Longhouse project
Max Fordham Environmental Design Prize awarded to stunning Viking Longhouse project ‘Light and Dark in the Land of Fire and Ice’ The winner of this year’s Max Fordham Environmental Design Prize has reimagined a traditional Viking long-house as a contemporary town hall and performance space. Amani Ra...
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BPMS produce pink Avant wheel-loader to support Make a Wish Foundation and Macmillan Cancer
BPMS produce pink Avant wheel-loader to support Make a Wish Foundation and Macmillan Cancer Hampshire based plant and machinery dealers BPMS Ltd. have produced the world’s first pink Avant 635 compact wheeled loader, which will be the focal point of a fund raising charity campaign for the Make-a-Wis...
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Balfour Beatty VINCI JV to be awarded £2.5 billion HS2 rail contracts
Balfour Beatty VINCI JV to be awarded £2.5 billion HS2 rail contracts Balfour Beatty VINCI, a long established joint venture between two global infrastructure leaders recognized for its portfolio of large-scale projects, today announces its notification of intent to be awarded two contracts by High...
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Colombia signs €640m concession contract for Cúcuta to Pamplona Highway
Colombia signs €640m concession contract for Cúcuta to Pamplona Highway Sacyr Concesiones will invest 2 billion Colombian pesos (around €640 million) in renovating the 67-kilometer road and completing the dual carriageway corridor. The National Infrastructure Agency (ANI) of Colombia has signed the...
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Volvo Construction Equipment celebrates their 75,000th hauler
Volvo Construction Equipment celebrates their 75,000th hauler With half of all the articulated haulers ever made bearing the Volvo brand, the company has just passed another landmark – the production of its 75,000th hauler. More than half a century after they invented the concept, Volvo Construction...
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New A5 to M1 link road in UK opens up opportunities for thousands of new homes and jobs
New A5 to M1 link road in UK opens up opportunities for thousands of new homes and jobs A new road which links the A5 with the M1 via a new motorway junction in Bedfordshire has been welcomed at its official opening on 13 July 2017. The A5-M1 link road has created a new northern ...
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Searching for a parking space costs the UK £23.3 billion per year
Searching for a parking space costs the UK £23.3 billion per year UK drivers spend an average of 44 hours a year searching for parking, at a cost of £733 each in wasted time, fuel and emissions, a total of £23.3 billion across the country Overpaying for parking costs British motorists up to an estim...
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Summer’s coming! Keep the holiday traffic flowing smoothly with Clearview
Summer’s coming! Keep the holiday traffic flowing smoothly with Clearview The summer holiday season is almost upon us and with it the inevitable increase in traffic on the roads. Clearview Intelligence has the solutions to keep the traffic moving, minimise congestion, and driver frustration. H...
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UK Construction Industry invited to support CRASH at Charity Golf Event
UK Construction Industry invited to support CRASH at Charity Golf Event Global events and media experts at Versanta are asking members of the Construction industry to take to the fairways as part of a fundraising campaign for CRASH – The construction industry Charity. CRASH is a unique, practical ch...
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S.M.E. Businesses are Driving Record Employment Levels in Britain
S.M.E. Businesses are Driving Record Employment Levels in Britain Film and TV production, machinery repair and food vans all booming SMEs account for over 70% of private sector employment growth since 2011 SME debt falls £34 billion in five years SME growth highest in Manchester (50%), London (41%)...
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JCB’s Louise crowned Apprentice of the Year
JCB’s Louise crowned Apprentice of the Year Teenager Louise Meredith is the toast of JCB after she was named Young Employee / Apprentice of the Year at a regional business awards. Higher Apprentice Louise, 19, who works at JCB’s World HQ in Rocester scooped the title at the Staffordshire Chambers of...
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Hyperloop One makes history with world’s first successful Hyperloop full systems test
Hyperloop One makes history with world’s first successful Hyperloop full systems test Hyperloop One today announced the successful completion of the world’s first full systems Hyperloop test in a vacuum environment. This test was Phase 1 of a multi-Phase program and was privately conduct...
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Thales supporting modernisation of 36 km or railway through Ankara
Thales supporting modernisation of 36 km or railway through Ankara Turkey’s Başkentray project involves the renovation of the signalling systems for conventional, high-speed and suburban lines along a 36-kilometre section stretching from Sincan to Kayaş through the city of Ankara. Key Points T...
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Chapman Taylor behind the first modular hotel built in Manchester
Chapman Taylor behind the first modular hotel built in Manchester Chapman Taylor’s new 220 bedroom Holiday Inn Express, built off-site from purpose built steel shipping containers, has been completed at Manchester’s Trafford City. It is the first hotel in the North West to be built using this partic...
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Herrenknecht TBM completes 3.2 km road tunnel in Switzerland
Herrenknecht TBM completes 3.2 km road tunnel in Switzerland The shell of the Belchen rehabilitation tunnel has been completed. Tunnelling ended successfully in Eptingen in the Swiss canton of Basel-Country on June 21, 2017, three months ahead of schedule. The tunnel boring machine (TBM) (diameter 1...
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Marshalls relies on VolvoCE to pave the way for monumental work
Marshalls relies on VolvoCE to pave the way for monumental work With prestigious projects such as London’s Trafalgar Square and Wembley Stadium in its portfolio, the UK’s leading hard landscaping manufacturer is using Volvo equipment to help carve its niche. Looking out from atop the stone steps of...
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Metsä Wood invests in partnerships in industrial wood element construction
Metsä Wood invests in partnerships in industrial wood element construction Wood construction is becoming increasingly popular worldwide. Wood products have become more competitive in residential construction in particular, due to the advanced degree of modularity and prefabricated elements. Through...
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Quieter Homes Scheme opened to Heathrow neighbours
Quieter Homes Scheme opened to Heathrow neighbours Heathrow launches bespoke noise insulation free of charge to local homeowners More than 700 residents have been invited to join the programme following a successful pilot scheme. Residents living close to the airport will be able to upgrade their ho...
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JCB delivers robust results in shrinking global market
JCB delivers robust results in shrinking global market JCB defied challenging market conditions by growing earnings by more than 34% in 2016. Announcing its annual results for last year, the Staffordshire-based machinery maker revealed that earnings for 2016 on an EBITDA basis were £287 million (201...
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First of its kind Machine Simulator Training at Hinkley Point C
First of its kind Machine Simulator Training at Hinkley Point C UK Plant Operators LTD have teamed up with Leica Geosystems and Kier Bam to test run a state of the art simulator based familiarisation course for Leica machine control and guidance at one of the largest construction projects in the UK....
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Building instructor wins John Deere 333G compact track loader in Small Machines. Big Impact. contest
Building instructor wins John Deere 333G compact track loader in Small Machines. Big Impact. contest After all the online votes were counted, Eric Moores, a high school building trades instructor in Woodbine, Iowa, was crowned the grand prize winner of the inaugural John Deere “Small Machines. Big I...
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New Volvo loading shovel lands on familiar territory at Scottish Bogside
New Volvo loading shovel lands on familiar territory at Scottish Bogside The world’s leading glass bottle manufacturer, O-I Manufacturing Ltd, continues to favour Volvo Construction Equipment products as it takes delivery of a new L150H loading shovel for its Devilla silica sand quarry located at Bo...
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