Construction Equipment is becoming increasingly important across global construction, infrastructure and industrial technology, influencing how projects are visualised, coordinated, delivered and managed over time.
A Komatsu excavator working in Saudi Arabia presents few unusual mechanical challenges simply because it was built for an international market. Its diesel engine, hydraul...
John Deere is adding a new machine between its 35 P-Tier and 50 P-Tier compact excavators, targeting a particularly useful part of the market where digging performance, a...
Miller Plant Ltd has committed ยฃ1.7 million to a seven-machine Caterpillar fleet for civil engineering and infrastructure work across north-east Scotland, combining addit...
Selling a used excavator across borders was a considerably more cumbersome business when Mascus launched its first website in Helsinki in January 2001. Machinery dealers...
A one-tonne increase in payload does not sound particularly dramatic on a machine already capable of carrying more than 40 tonnes. Repeated hundreds of times through a qu...
A dent in an excavator counterweight, a chip in a windscreen or a puncture buried in the tread of a tyre can be surprisingly difficult to spot during a hurried equipment...
Construction machinery safety systems are beginning to cross an important boundary. Cameras, radar and object detection have spent years giving operators more information...
Komatsu is expanding its excavator range for Asian growth markets with three machines spanning the 7-tonne and 20-tonne classes, but the more interesting development is t...
When INTERMAT returns to Paris in April 2027, some of the most consequential developments on display may be considerably less conspicuous than the machines occupying the...
HD Construction Equipment and Manitou Group have agreed to exchange compact construction equipment across their respective product portfolios, creating a cross-distributi...
Caterpillar is putting $25 million behind a five-year search for new ways to train the people who will build, maintain and support increasingly digital and autonomous ind...
Around 30 new JCB machines entering the Select Plant Hire fleet are passing through an Xwatch installation programme as part of a wider ยฃ5 million equipment investment, p...
Ordering a wheel loader with auxiliary hydraulics can mean a factory lead time of 12 to 20 weeks, according to HKX. The company’s first field-installable hydraulic...
A used excavator with clean paint, reasonable hours and an attractive price can still conceal an expensive history. Worn undercarriages, tired hydraulic components, struc...
Develon has reworked its four-tonne zero-tail-swing mini excavator with a new engine, altered boom geometry and faster arm movement, concentrating much of the engineering...
Multi Parts Solutions has entered the construction equipment sector through the acquisition of HKX, bringing a specialist in excavator hydraulics and electronic control i...
Europe’s first Stage V Volvo R70 rigid hauler has entered service at SHF Steinbruchbetriebe’s Bettenfeld Quarry in Germany, where rigid haulers routinely accu...
Replacing a major road bridge above an operating railway is as much a problem of space and logistics as it is one of lifting capacity. In Ulm, Germany, seven Liebherr tow...
PlantWorx will arrive at the NEC Birmingham in June 2027 with a considerably larger canvas than previous editions, combining its established live machinery format with in...
More than 150 senior figures from Europeโs construction equipment industry will gather at IET Savoy Place in London from 27 to 29 October for CECE Congress 2026, bringing...
Buying a used excavator, truck or wheel loader at auction no longer necessarily requires a buyer to stop what they are doing, open a laptop and settle in front of a brows...
A machine first introduced in 1981 might seem an unlikely place to look for equipment development, but Mastenbroek’s latest 20/15 drainage trencher makes a good cas...
Demand for used tractor units across Europe rose 72% year-on-year during the second quarter of 2026 while the number advertised for sale fell by 26%. Few figures capture...
A 130-tonne electric mining excavator connected directly to the grid will sit alongside a 564 kWh mobile battery system when Liebherr arrives at steinexpo in September. A...
The international rulebook for fully automated vehicles acquired considerably more substance in June 2026 when the UNECE World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulati...
Volvo EC400 Hybrid Excavator Cuts Fuel Use by 30% at Clariant Bentonite Mines At Clariant’s bentonite pits in Lower Bavaria, a Volvo EC400 Hybrid excavator has redu...
The first excavators and large wheel loaders assembled on American soil by Volvo Construction Equipment have begun reaching customers from the company’s plant in Sh...
DEVELON’s decision to build two compact track loaders that need no diesel exhaust fluid reads, at first glance, like a modest maintenance convenience. Seen against...
The deployment of four Liebherr 85 EC-B tower cranes at the AmazonFACE research site near Manaus reads, at first glance, as a curiosity: construction plant repurposed for...
The equipment rental sector rarely treats a software vendor’s growth ranking as market news, yet Quipli’s placement at No. 419 on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list is w...
LANDCROS Signals Hitachiโs Shift from Machinery to Construction Intelligence Hitachi Construction Machinery has opened its LANDCROS Innovation Studios Challenge to Europe...
Bobcat left the 2026 Construction Machinery Middle East (CMME) Awards in Dubai with three trophies, and on the surface that reads as a straightforward night of industry r...
Falkirk-based Your Equipment Solutions has committed to more than 70 Kubota mini excavators from local dealer HRN Tractors, and on the surface the deal reads as a routine...
JCB’s Hydromax streamliner has clinched a Southern California Timing Association speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats, averaging 368.347mph across two runs and...
A laboratory result out of California this summer reads at first like a chemistry footnote, but its consequences run straight into one of the most exposed positions in th...
The industrial cooperation agreement CNH Construction signed with Finland’s Oy Norcar Ab on 24 July 2026 looks, on the surface, like a modest distribution deal: a s...
The construction equipment industry has spent several years proving that its machines can run cleaner. The harder question, and the one that will decide how quickly emiss...
The New Generation ECR355 arrives in a market defined less by weak demand than by the shortage of people available to meet it. When Volvo Group Japan handed the ceremonia...
One hundred years ago the construction equipment industry crossed a threshold it never crossed back over. Steam shovels, cable excavators and the first crawler dozers rep...
For close to two decades, construction telematics has been sold on visibility. Fleet owners were promised they would finally know where their machines were, how hard they...
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