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Volvo, Daimler Truck and TRATON JV planning European charging infrastructure
Volvo, Daimler Truck and TRATON JV planning European charging infrastructure The Volvo Group, Daimler Truck, and the TRATON GROUP completed the final step in forming the previously announced joint venture for charging infrastructure in Europe. The new joint venture, with Anja van Niersen as appointe...
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Codelco to trial new Komatsu Mining Tunnel Boring Machine
Codelco to trial new Komatsu Mining Tunnel Boring Machine Komatsu Ltd., through its subsidiary, Komatsu Cummins Chile Ltda., has agreed with Codelco, a major state-owned mining company in Chile, to collaborate on trailing a new tunnel excavation method using Komatsu’s newly developed Mining Tu...
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Dutch scientists discover liquid solution that turns into a Hydrogel when diluted
Dutch scientists discover liquid solution that turns into a Hydrogel when diluted In Science Magazine, TU/e researchers publish tier research on new phase transitions of solutions and gels in water, which instinctively go against the basic principles of chemistry – and which they discovered by accid...
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Graco releases E-Flo SP Electric Bulk Unloader
Graco releases E-Flo SP Electric Bulk Unloader Graco Inc., a leading manufacturer of fluid handling equipment, has made its UniDrum™ Bulk Supply System available with E-Flo® SP™ electric supply pumps. The newly released compatibility makes the UniDrum the only bulk unloader that suppor...
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Trevi plays crucial role in Hong Kong Int’l Airport Runway Reclamation Works
Trevi plays crucial role in Hong Kong Int’l Airport Runway Reclamation Works TREVI Construction Co. Ltd., part of TREVI GROUP, a world leader in the field of underground engineering from A to Z (special foundations, soil consolidation, recovery of polluted sites), in the design and marketing o...
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VolvoCE’s new L200H High Lift Wheel Loader extends Log-Handling abilities
VolvoCE’s new L200H High Lift Wheel Loader extends Log-Handling abilities Volvo CE has built upon its L180H High Lift wheel loader design to create the all-new L200H High Lift, featuring more lifting power and larger capacity grapples. Volvo Construction Equipment has launched the new L200H Hi...
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Doka expands scaffolding business in USA with AT-PAC majority stake acquisition
Doka expands scaffolding business in USA with AT-PAC majority stake acquisition Doka, a world-leading formwork, solutions and services provider for the construction sector, has strengthened its existing relationship with leading American scaffolding manufacturer AT-PAC, through acquisition of a majo...
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Cenex LCV and CAM events celebrate 15th Anniversary in September
Cenex LCV and CAM events return for 15th Anniversary in September As the UK looks to be competitive in its motor industry supply chain as well as transitioning to net zero manufacture (amongst other environmental challenges) we know the next 10-20 years are crucial. The CENEX LCV and CAM events have...
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Partnership designing Zero-Carbon Bricks and Bio-Concrete Materials
Partnership designing Zero-Carbon Bricks and Bio-Concrete Materials Global design firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill partnered with Prometheus Materials, a leader in zero-carbon building materials, to design and produce microalgae-based bricks and bio-concrete. Replacing traditional carbon-heavy co...
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New M88A3 HERCULES Prototype Vehicles propelled by Allison Transmission
New M88A3 HERCULES Prototype Vehicles propelled by Allison Transmission Allison Transmission, a leading designer and manufacturer of conventional and electrified vehicle propulsion solutions for tactical wheeled and tracked defense vehicles, and medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles will provid...
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Italian Rail Agency recognised by ESRI for Modernizing Infrastructure
Italian Rail Agency recognised by ESRI for Modernizing Infrastructure Last year, the Italian rail agency Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) built an application using geographic information system (GIS) technology from Esri, the global leader in location intelligence. Called StationLAND, the applicatio...
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Granite wins $55m Alaskan road project
Granite wins $55m Alaskan road project Granite announced that it has secured the approximately $55 million Knik-Goose Bay Road Reconstruction Phase 1 project near Wasilla, Alaska. The contract was awarded by Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) Central Region and wi...
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Optical wireless technology driving self-driving vehicles and portable devices in a chip
Optical wireless technology driving self-driving vehicles and portable devices in a chip A study by the Politecnico di Milano, conducted together with Stanford University, the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa and the University of Glasgow and published in the prestigious journal Light: Scien...
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Effidence and Reflex WMS collaborate for Pick and Go Rhenus Logistics
Effidence and Reflex WMS collaborate for Pick and Go Rhenus Logistics The installation of a fleet of 21 AMRs on the Rhenus Logistics platform in Saint Quentin Fallavier was answering a desire for continuous improvement and optimisation of the site’s order preparation process. This fleet of rob...
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Doosan set to highlight core innovation themes at Bauma 2022
Doosan set to highlight core innovation themes at Bauma 2022 Doosan is presenting an industry leading display of new state-of-the-art machine and digital technologies on the company’s Stand No FM.711/1 at the heart of the Open-Air Area Middle construction and mining machinery section of the Bauma 20...
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Mobileye launches EyeQ Kit SDK for ADAS Systems
Mobileye launches EyeQ Kit SDK for ADAS Systems Mobileye, an Intel company, has launched the EyeQ Kit™ – its first software development kit (SDK) for the EyeQ® system-on-chip that powers driver-assistance and future autonomous technologies for automakers worldwide. Built to leverage the power...
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Evolito acquires Electroflight for Battery Powertrain Solutions
Evolito acquires Electroflight for Battery Powertrain Solutions Evolito, a privately-owned company designing and manufacturing world-leading electric motors and controllers for aerospace applications, has today announced the acquisition of the business and assets of Cheltenham-based aerospace batter...
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CHAS launches Construction Materials Supplier Verification Service
CHAS launches Construction Materials Supplier Verification Service New from CHAS, the trusted expert in supply chain compliance, is Verified Supplier, a compliance verification service which enables construction material suppliers to showcase their commitment to operating credibly, safely and ethica...
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Hytera celebrates 5 ICCA Awards for Innovations and Excellence
Hytera celebrates 5 ICCA Awards for Innovations and Excellence Hytera, a leading global provider of professional communications technologies and solutions, together with its subsidiaries Sepura and Teltronic, won awards in 5 categories at the International Critical Communications Awards (ICCAs) 2022...
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Top 10 reasons to adopt Green Electric Compressors
Top 10 reasons to adopt Green Electric Compressors Why make the switch from diesel portable compressors to zero-emission electric air compressors? Here are the top 10 reasons why going electric is good for business: 1. Clean, Green, Sustainable Sustainability is not a trend: it is a driver. All indu...
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Inland Surfing Complex makes waves thanks to Intelligent Design
Inland Surfing Complex makes waves thanks to Intelligent Design The Wave is an inland surf destination situated near Bristol, offering year-round consistent waves for people of all ages, background and abilities. Like a scene from a science-fiction film, its crystal-clear lake and accompanying surf...
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New National Highways Guide prioritises Sustainable Road Design
New National Highways Guide prioritises Sustainable Road Design National Highways has been challenged to prioritise high-quality and sustainable design as it delivers the biggest investment in the strategic road network for a generation. The government-owned company has been urged to ensure upgrades...
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VolvoCE Farming Simulator brings the farm into your living room
VolvoCE Farming Simulator brings the farm into your living room For the very first time, gaming fans will feel all the thrill of driving a Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) machine from the comfort of their living room, thanks to a new partnership with fully immersive video game Farming Simula...
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Re-vitalising office and retail space in cities with Digital Twins
Re-vitalising office and retail space in cities with Digital Twins City real estate owners face a crisis as the ‘work from home’ culture causes serious under-use of prime urban offices, and e-commerce booms at the expense of city centre retail. Together with entrenched city problems, like traffic co...
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Volvo invests in software company Optibus for sustainable bus operations
Volvo invests in software company Optibus for sustainable bus operations Volvo Group Venture Capital AB invests in Optibus Ltd, that develops and provides optimization software for public transportation planning and management. The investment highlights the companies’ shared commitment to sustainabl...
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CIFA to promote the Sustainable Jobsite at Bauma 2022
CIFA to promote the Sustainable Jobsite at Bauma 2022 CIFA is on show at Bauma 2022 at the stand of its parent company Zoomlion, and at a stand dedicated to the “Underground” world with a range of tunnelling and mining machinery. The company’s latest innovations will be on display...
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The Trevi Group celebrates important global contracts worth €174m
The Trevi Group celebrates important global contracts worth €174m Trevi S.p.A, the division of the TREVI Group specialised in deep foundations and geotechnical works, continuing the positive trend of 2021 and the first three months of 2022, in the second quarter of 2022 also won new and important or...
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Wrekin explores Construction Delays and Manhole Safety
Wrekin explores Construction Delays and Manhole Safety Wrekin Products has launched a manhole cover reducer ring to aid compliance with Part H of the Building Regulations. A reducer ring provides a second line of defence against chambers being accessed by unauthorised people or potential falls if ac...
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Mecalac reveals new Compact Loader range
Mecalac reveals new Compact Loader range The decision to expand Mecalac’s position in the compact loader market is born from increasing demand for small, multipurpose, articulated loaders in the agricultural, rental and construction sectors. Among other things, these units are gradually replacing ot...
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SMT GB celebrates 1,000th Volvo Machine sale to Chepstow Plant
SMT GB celebrates 1,000th Volvo Machine sale to Chepstow Plant The 1,000-machine milestone stems from a 20-year relationship of open communication and reciprocity to improve safety and environmental standards for the entire industry. In 2002, Chepstow Plant International placed its first package ord...
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Yunex Traffic wins major traffic signal maintenance contract in Bristol
Yunex Traffic wins major traffic signal maintenance contract in Bristol Yunex Traffic has been awarded a five-year contract by Bristol City Council for the supply, installation and maintenance of traffic signal and control equipment. With an option to extend to up to nine years, the company’s work w...
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Optimising locations for EV charging stations
Optimising locations for EV charging stations With sales of electric vehicles increasing, the availability of charge points remains a barrier to EV adoption. Property consultancy Carter Jonas is applying the latest geospatial analysis techniques to help the property sector understand opportunities i...
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EN16803 European Geolocation Standard to Certify Mobility Solutions
EN16803 European Geolocation Standard to Certify Mobility Solutions In a perfect world, the positions calculated by trilateration using the signals transmitted by the satellites would always be accurate to within a few centimetres. Unfortunately, in addition to the intrinsic quality of the receivers...
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Thornton Tomasetti propels futuristic transport with HyperloopTT investment
Thornton Tomasetti propels futuristic transport with HyperloopTT investment HyperloopTT has announced a financial investment from Thornton Tomasetti, a leading global scientific and engineering consulting firm that provides specialized safety, security and risk management services. HyperloopTT and T...
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New energy-packed Lithium-Ion Batteries perform in extreme temperatures
New energy-packed Lithium-Ion Batteries perform in extreme temperatures Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed lithium-ion batteries that perform well at freezing cold and scorching hot temperatures, while packing a lot of energy. The researchers accomplished this feat by...
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Light could turn Methane into Methanol
Light could turn Methane into Methanol An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of Manchester, has developed a fast and economical method of converting methane, or natural gas, into liquid methanol at ambient temperature and pressure. The method takes place under con...
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Collapsed Railway Bridge in Japan inspires Flood-Resistant Designs
Collapsed Railway Bridge in Japan inspires Flood-Resistant Designs Before record rainfall in July of 2018, the Misasa Railroad Bridge spanned a small river some nine miles inland from Japan’s western coast. Unprecedented flooding collapsed the bridge, an infrastructure failure that will continue to...
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New research exploring Ultra-Conductive Aluminium to replace Copper
New research exploring Ultra-Conductive Aluminium to replace Copper In the world of electricity, copper is king—for now. That could change with new research from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) that is serving up a recipe to increase the conductivity of aluminium, making it economically...
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Ensure structural safety in construction
Ensure structural safety in construction Renovating a home before the relocation is a good idea to turn it into the home of your dreams. But this is not the time when one has to hang up with the interiors and amenities only, you have to ensure that the structural design is strong enough. Structural...
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Creating a Secure Supply Chain
Creating a Secure Supply Chain For many businesses, the supply chain is essential and operating a secure supply chain is critical to success. Without measures in place to secure your supply chain, your organisation is at risk. The security of your supply chain is an integral part of supply chain man...
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Komatsu announces new large PC950-11 Hydraulic Excavator
Komatsu announces new large PC950-11 Hydraulic Excavator Komatsu has incorporated the latest technology in their newly launched large hydraulic excavator PC950-11, which meets the 2014 emissions standards. The model also complies with the latest regional emission regulations, and is scheduled to be...
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What trucking companies do to keep up with sustainability pressure
What trucking companies do to keep up with sustainability pressure Trucking companies aren’t exempt from today’s environmental debate. From governments, targets for net zero and reduced emissions, such as Europe’s Fit for 55, the UK’s Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener, and USA’s aim...
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Mathers’ St-Eustache Quarry and Asphalt Operations acquired by Lafarge Canada
Mathers’ St-Eustache Quarry and Asphalt Operations acquired by Lafarge Canada Lafarge Canada is proud to announce today the acquisition of the Mathers’ St-Eustache Quarry (Carrière St-Eustache Ltée) and Asphalt (Pavage St-Eustache Ltée) operations (QC). The investment will further complement L...
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How to Maintain your Car Battery
How to Maintain your Car Battery Whether you’ve just invested in a brand-new car or you’re trying to keep car repair costs down with living costs rising, maintaining your car battery is a crucial aspect of car ownership. But if you’re no mechanic, knowing how to keep your car battery ticking along c...
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CDE commissioning their largest UK Construction and Demolition Recycling Plant
CDE commissioning their largest UK Construction and Demolition Recycling Plant CDE, a leading supplier of sand and aggregate wet processing solutions for the waste recycling and natural processing sectors, is to commission its largest waste recycling plant in the UK for Peel NRE, part of regeneratio...
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MIT researchers help Robots to find and retrieve buried objects
MIT researchers help Robots to find and retrieve buried objects Finding a lost wallet buried under a pile of items is pretty straightforward — we simply remove things from the pile until we find the wallet. But for a robot, this task involves complex reasoning about the pile and objects in it, which...
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Motive and Navistar equipping Fleet Operators with robust Telematics insights
Motive and Navistar equipping Fleet Operators with robust Telematics insights Motive, the leader in Automated Operations, and Navistar, a manufacturer and solutions provider to the medium, heavy and severe service trucks industry, announced today a strategic partnership and future product integratio...
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Sensata Technologies develops Bluetooth Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems
Sensata Technologies develops Bluetooth Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems Sensata Technologies, today announced it has developed a new Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) for vehicle OEMs to help improve vehicle safety and performance. Interest in BLE TPMS is on the ris...
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Allison eGen Power 100D Electric Axle integrated into Emergency Vehicles
Allison eGen Power 100D Electric Axle integrated into Emergency Vehicles Allison Transmission, a leading designer and manufacturer of conventional and electrified vehicle propulsion solutions for medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicles, announced that Emergency One, the UK’s largest manufacturer o...
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The challenges of Road Maintenance
The challenges of Road Maintenance According to the Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) survey by the Asphalt Industry Alliance, 1.7 million potholes were filled in 2021 — that’s equivalent to one every 19 seconds. With 18 per cent of the UK road network now defined as structurally poor,...
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Idaho National Laboratory testing Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
Idaho National Laboratory testing Lithium-Sulfur Batteries Imagine a future when electric vehicles can travel thousands of miles on a single charge, and cargo ships and passenger planes run on batteries instead of fossil fuels. To make these technological leaps a reality, researchers are working to...
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Potential mine hazards monitored with Seismic Noise Analysis
Potential mine hazards monitored with Seismic Noise Analysis An active underground mine can be a seismically noisy environment, full of signals generated by heavy machinery at work and induced seismicity. Now, researchers working with data from a longwall coal mine demonstrate a way to extract and s...
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New research uncovers low-energy light can bend plastic
New research uncovers low-energy light can bend plastic A team of Florida State University researchers has uncovered a way to use low-energy light to manipulate photopolymers or plastic films — a finding that has implications for a wide range of technologies that use light as an energy source to cre...
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Your checklist for servicing your vehicles yourself
Your checklist for servicing your vehicles yourself The cost of living is continuing to rise rapidly in the UK and businesses are tightening their purse-strings to scrimp and save wherever possible. While there are plenty of ways to slash costs, many of these methods mean cutting the things we enjoy...
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Ferrovial wins €119m North Dallas Tollway expansion in Texas
Ferrovial wins €119m North Dallas Tollway expansion in Texas Ferrovial, through Webber, its US construction subsidiary, has been awarded the contract to widen a 15-kilometre section of the Dallas North Tollway, in Texas. The North Texas Tollway Authority (NTTA) has selected the company to execute th...
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Cintec Anchoring System helps restore Terra-Cotta Columns in New York
Cintec Anchoring System helps restore Terra-Cotta Columns in New York The Helmsley Building, 230 Park Avenue, NYC is a “recognized iconic asset” to the New York City Skyline. Located in midtown Manhattan, the building was built as a Beaux-arts style building in 1929, and the property strategically s...
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Wickes partners global product sourcing platform RangeMe
Wickes partners global product sourcing platform RangeMe Home improvement business Wickes has today partnered with RangeMe to support their product buying teams, ensuring they have access to the most relevant products their customers demand. This partnership presents Wickes with innovation and scale...
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Komatsu and Cummins collaborate to advance Zero Emissions Mining Haul Trucks
Komatsu and Cummins collaborate to advance Zero Emissions Mining Haul Trucks Today, Cummins and Komatsu signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on the development of zero-emissions haulage equipment. Building on a legacy of diesel engine partnership across a wide variety of mining and co...
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UK Government creating Investigation Branch focused on Road Safety
UK Government creating Investigation Branch focused on Road Safety The Government will recruit a specialised team of inspectors to join the country’s first ever Road Safety Investigation Branch, looking at how and why incidents happen and to provide real insight into how new technologies – such as s...
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Velodyne Lidar signs 3D Sensor agreement with Boston Dynamics
Velodyne Lidar signs 3D Sensor agreement with Boston Dynamics Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced a multi-year agreement for its lidar sensors with Boston Dynamics, the global leader in mobile robotics. Boston Dynamics selected Velodyne’s sensors to provide perception and navigation capabilities fo...
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