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The Intelligent Machine Has Arrived
The Intelligent Machine Has Arrived Picture a working earthworks site on a weekday morning. An excavator trims a batter to design grade on its own, its boom and bucket following a three-dimensional model while the operator watches from a remote operations centre and keeps an eye on two other machines at the same time. Nearby, … Read more…
Hytera PDC580 Bridges Narrowband and Broadband on the Critical Front Line
Hytera PDC580 Bridges Narrowband and Broadband on the Critical Front Line The launch of a single handheld radio rarely counts as a strategic event, yet the release of Hytera’s PDC580 dual-mode rugged radio touches on a question that sits near the top of the agenda for infrastructure owners, transport operators and utilities across every developed … Read more…
MIDA Civils Deepens Kubota Commitment as Fleet Expands Beyond 100 Machines
MIDA Civils Deepens Kubota Commitment as Fleet Expands Beyond 100 Machines When a contractor barely five years old commits to fifteen new excavators in a single order, the number itself is less telling than the reasoning behind it. Bedfordshire-based MIDA Civils has added fifteen Kubota compact machines to a fleet that now exceeds one hundred … Read more…
Britain’s First Liebherr 620 HC-L Goes to Work Inside York’s City Walls
Britain’s First Liebherr 620 HC-L Goes to Work Inside York’s City Walls The arrival of the UK’s first Liebherr 620 HC-L luffing jib tower crane matters less for the machine itself than for the type of project it has been bought to serve. Bennetts Cranes has raised the crane on a tightly bounded plot inside … Read more…
Clearview and Prismo Secure DfT Approval for Cast Iron SolarLite S381 Active Road Stud
Clearview and Prismo Secure DfT Approval for Cast Iron SolarLite S381 Active Road Stud For most highway authorities, the obstacle to fitting active, illuminated road studs has rarely been the technology itself. Solar-powered studs that project their own LED light have been proven on UK roads for the better part of three decades, yet uptake … Read more…
Why Reliable Equipment is Essential for Modern Developments
Why Reliable Equipment is Essential for Modern Developments Modern developments, whether residential, commercial, or industrial, rely on a wide range of equipment to ensure projects run smoothly and efficiently. From construction machinery and storage systems to utility infrastructure and maintenance tools, the quality and reliability of equipment can have a significant impact on both short-term &… Read more…
Big Joe Forklifts at 75 looks at Lithium-Ion and Autonomy
Big Joe Forklifts at 75 looks at Lithium-Ion and Autonomy A seventy-fifth anniversary would ordinarily sit in the softer corner of the trade press, a moment for company photographs and a look back at old catalogues. In the case of Big Joe Forklifts, the milestone is more useful read as a market signal than a … Read more…
BYD SHARK Takes On the Ford Ranger PHEV in a Reformed Pickup Market
BYD SHARK Takes On the Ford Ranger PHEV in a Reformed Pickup Market The double-cab pickup has long held an unusual place in the British and European fleet, prized as much for its favourable tax treatment as for its ability to haul a tonne of aggregate up a site access road. That settlement has now … Read more…
From Haul Road to Smelter: Pedestrian Alert Technology Finds a Wider Market
From Haul Road to Smelter: Pedestrian Alert Technology Finds a Wider Market A pedestrian detection system built for the mining sector has been fitted across a mixed fleet of forklifts, skid steer loaders, cranes and backhoes at a mining and smelting complex in northwest Queensland, and the deployment says more about the direction of industrial … Read more…
The Next Frontier of Equipment Procurement
The Next Frontier of Equipment Procurement For most of the industry’s history, acquiring a bulldozer or excavator was a reasonably contained transaction. A contractor sized up a machine against the job, negotiated a price with a dealer, arranged finance and took delivery, confident their construction equipment asset would earn its keep for a decade and … Read more…
Sandvik Unifies Jaw Crusher Portfolio for Smarter Primary Crushing
Sandvik Unifies Jaw Crusher Portfolio for Smarter Primary Crushing Primary crushing remains one of the most demanding stages of any quarrying, mining or heavy construction operation. Equipment reliability, operator safety and predictable throughput all have a direct impact on project productivity, maintenance costs and profitability. Sandvik’s completion of its upgraded jaw crusher portfolio… Read more…
Kärcher and STIHL Forge a Shared Battery Standard for Professional Equipment
Kärcher and STIHL Forge a Shared Battery Standard for Professional Equipment When two of Germany’s largest family-owned equipment manufacturers agree to run their professional machines off the same battery, the significance reaches well beyond the two brands involved. Kärcher and STIHL have confirmed a joint battery alliance built around STIHL’s ALLPRO system, a cross-brand 40V … Read more…
Greenstone Adds Eight Volvo A40 Haulers to its Philippine Gold Fleet
Greenstone Adds Eight Volvo A40 Haulers to its Philippine Gold Fleet When a gold producer commits to eight 39-tonne articulated haulers in a single order, the decision says as much about the economics of moving rock as it does about any one machine. Greenstone Resources Corporation has taken delivery of eight New Generation Volvo A40 … Read more…
Krandienst Süderau Strengthens Heavy Lifting Capability with Tadano AC 5.250L-2
Krandienst Süderau Strengthens Heavy Lifting Capability with Tadano AC 5.250L-2 When Krandienst Süderau took delivery of a Tadano AC 5.250L-2 at the manufacturer’s carrier plant in Lauf an der Pegnitz, the transaction looked, on paper, like a routine fleet swap: a 15-strong family firm in Northern Germany trading up from an ageing 220-tonne machine to … Read more…
A Century of Earthmoving and Construction Machinery
A Century of Earthmoving and Construction Machinery Almost every road, runway, dam, harbour wall and city skyline of the modern age was shaped by a machine that did the work of dozens, and then hundreds, of people. The history of construction is to a large degree the history of the equipment that made it possible, … Read more…
Liebherr’s €100m Investment Signals Confidence in European Manufacturing
Liebherr’s €100m Investment Signals Confidence in European Manufacturing The Liebherr Group has broken ground on a new manufacturing site at Nambsheim in the Haut-Rhin, and the foundation stone matters far less than the strategy it anchors. The family-owned group is committing more than €100 million to a plant dedicated to assembling operator cabs for its earthmoving … Read more…
Rental Summit 2026 to put TCO and Electrification Under the Spotlight
Rental Summit 2026 to put TCO and Electrification Under the Spotlight Briggs & Stratton is staging its Rental Summit as two separate regional events in 2026, one in Frankfurt built around total cost of ownership and one in Atlanta built around the commercial realities of electrification. On the surface this reads as a sponsor refreshing … Read more…
JCB Hydromax Turns Land Speed Bid into a Hydrogen Engine Showcase
JCB Hydromax Turns Land Speed Bid into a Hydrogen Engine Showcase British equipment maker JCB has finished the United Kingdom phase of its hydrogen land speed programme, with the Hydromax car reaching 208mph at RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire before it is crated and flown to the United States for a record attempt at the Bonneville … Read more…
Heavy Lifting Meets Urban Rail Renewal at Amsterdam Centraal
Heavy Lifting Meets Urban Rail Renewal at Amsterdam Centraal Replacing critical railway infrastructure inside one of Europe’s busiest stations without bringing services to a halt has become one of the defining engineering challenges facing mature rail networks. Across Europe, ageing bridges, tunnels and stations require extensive renewal at the same time that governments expect operators … Read more…
JCB Expands Digital Parts Platform as Aftermarket Becomes Competitive Battleground
JCB Expands Digital Parts Platform as Aftermarket Becomes Competitive Battleground For construction equipment manufacturers, the sale rarely ends when a machine leaves the factory. Increasingly, long-term profitability depends on the quality of aftermarket support, the speed of parts delivery and the ability to keep fleets operating with minimal downtime. As contractors continue to manage tighter… Read more…
Liebherr Targets Urban Construction with Generation 8 Compact Excavators
Liebherr Targets Urban Construction with Generation 8 Compact Excavators Urban construction is placing growing pressure on contractors to do more with less space. Whether replacing utilities beneath city streets, carrying out highway maintenance or working on densely developed infrastructure projects, excavators increasingly need to combine compact dimensions with lifting capability, digital conne… Read more…
Volvo Electric Haulers Reach Commercial Reality on Norwegian Hydropower Project
Volvo Electric Haulers Reach Commercial Reality on Norwegian Hydropower Project The arrival of the world’s first production battery-electric articulated haulers on a major hydropower scheme marks an important milestone for both heavy construction equipment and the wider transition towards lower-emission infrastructure delivery. While electrification has become increasingly common among compa… Read more…
RB Global’s El Salvador Alliance Points to a Bigger Marketplace Strategy
RB Global’s El Salvador Alliance Points to a Bigger Marketplace Strategy RB Global’s decision to deepen its presence in El Salvador looks, on the surface, like a modest piece of channel housekeeping: one local operator, one auction centre, one capital city. Read against the company’s wider behaviour, it is something more deliberate. The group’s salvage … Read more…
Hytera W60 Wearable Targets the Coverage Gaps That Slow Critical Infrastructure
Hytera W60 Wearable Targets the Coverage Gaps That Slow Critical Infrastructure When Hytera unveiled the W60 Wearable MCS Radio at Critical Communications World in London on 23 June 2026, the hardware was almost the smallest part of the story. At roughly 156 grams the device is closer to a clip-on speaker microphone than a radio … Read more…
Volvo CE is Building its Next Excavator Factory Close to Home in Eskilstuna
Volvo CE is Building its Next Excavator Factory Close to Home in Eskilstuna The ground-breaking in Eskilstuna matters less for its ceremony than for what it reveals about where Europe’s heavy-equipment makers intend to build over the coming decade. Volvo Construction Equipment has committed SEK 700 million, around €64 million, to a new crawler excavator … Read more…
Insta360 Takes On DJI with the Luna Ultra and Leica Optics
Insta360 Takes On DJI with the Luna Ultra and Leica Optics Insta360 has spent a decade defining the action and panoramic camera categories, and with the Luna Ultra it has stepped into the pocket gimbal segment for the first time. That segment has been shaped almost single-handedly by DJI and its Osmo Pocket line, so … Read more…
Manitou Strengthens GEHL Network Across Gauteng and The Western Cape
Manitou Strengthens GEHL Network Across Gauteng and The Western Cape Manitou Group has moved to tighten its grip on the largest construction equipment market on the African continent, naming two new dealers for its GEHL brand in South Africa and putting fresh distribution muscle behind a product line that leans heavily on backhoe loaders. On … Read more…
Hyundai Takes Aim at UK Rental Market with A New Excavator for Hillhead
Hyundai Takes Aim at UK Rental Market with A New Excavator for Hillhead Hyundai’s heading back to the limestone benches above Buxton this June, and it isn’t travelling light. When the Hillhead quarry show opens its gates from 23 to 25 June, the manufacturer will roll its Next Generation crawler excavators onto Stand Z5 alongside … Read more…
Meet Sherwin-Williams OneCure Single Bake Powder Coating
Meet Sherwin-Williams OneCure Single Bake Powder Coating Finishing lines have long carried a quiet tax that rarely shows up in a glossy product brochure. Every time a manufacturer wants the corrosion protection of a primer underneath a durable topcoat, the part has traditionally taken two trips through the oven, with all the energy, floor space, … Read more…
Volvo Construction Equipment Turning Strategy Into Steel At Volvo Days 2026
Volvo Construction Equipment Turning Strategy Into Steel At Volvo Days 2026 There are worse ways to start a working week than watching a fleet of Volvo excavators and wheel loaders dance across a demonstration field in central Sweden, and I’ll admit the spectacle did its job. I’d landed in Eskilstuna as one of 70 international … Read more…
Volvo Construction Equipment’s A50 Articulated Hauler a Red Dot Award
Volvo Construction Equipment’s A50 Articulated Hauler a Red Dot Award When a German design jury hands out a Red Dot, it tends to reward the things buyers actually notice: the sweep of a surface, the feel of a cab, the quiet logic of a control layout. So it’s worth pausing on what Volvo Construction Equipment … Read more…
Volvo Plugs the EWR150 Electric Wheeled Excavator into our Zero Emission Future
Volvo Plugs the EWR150 Electric Wheeled Excavator into our Zero Emission Future Volvo Construction Equipment has put its first battery electric wheeled excavator on sale, and it’s Europe that gets first dibs. The EWR150 Electric, a 15 to 17 tonne machine built to do everything its diesel twin can do but without a tailpipe, has … Read more…
Volvo Turns their Wheel Loaders into Legal Weighbridges
Volvo Turns their Wheel Loaders into Legal Weighbridges Volvo Construction Equipment has reworked one of the oldest routines on a quarry or aggregates site, and it’s done so by moving the weighing point off the ground and onto the machine. With the launch of Certifiable On-Board Weighing for its wheel loaders, the company is letting … Read more…
Inside Volvo Construction Equipment’s Connected Worksite
Inside Volvo Construction Equipment’s Connected Worksite For fifty-five years, Volvo Construction Equipment has used its Volvo Days showcase in Eskilstuna, Sweden, to roll out fresh iron and let customers climb aboard. This year’s edition, the largest the company has ever staged, did plenty of that, with European debuts for machines such as the ECR255, ECR355 … Read more…
The Quarry is Turning Silent as VolvoCE Electrifies its Articulated Hauler Trucks
The Quarry is Turning Silent as VolvoCE Electrifies its Articulated Hauler Trucks There’s a particular smell to a Swedish forest in early summer, all warm pine and damp earth, and at Volvo Days 2026 in Eskilstuna it came mixed with the low growl of heavy machinery working hard. That’s where I found myself behind the … Read more…
Poland, Netherlands and Indonesia Book Their Place at VolvoCE Masters World Final
Poland, Netherlands and Indonesia Book Their Place at VolvoCE Masters World Final The line-up for one of the construction equipment industry’s most demanding skills contests is coming into focus, and the names heading for Sweden this autumn tell their own story about where service talent is concentrated right now. Within the space of a few … Read more…
Volvo Pushes Electric Trucking Past The 700 Kilometre Mark
Volvo Pushes Electric Trucking Past The 700 Kilometre Mark Volvo Trucks has lifted the ceiling on how far a heavy electric truck can run between charges, unveiling an FH Aero Electric with extended range that’s rated for up to 700 kilometres on a single charge. For a segment that’s long been written off as too … Read more…
VolvoCE Celebrates the First SD120 Compactor in Thailand
VolvoCE Celebrates the First SD120 Compactor in Thailand When Volvo Construction Equipment handed over its first New Generation SD120 soil compactor in Thailand, the machine itself was only half the story. The delivery, completed through authorised dealer CHAIRATCHAKARN (Bangkok) Co., Ltd., known across the trade simply as CHAB, went to local contractor Gabion (Thailand), a … Read more…
VolvoCE and Hitachi Energy Team Up to Power Zero Emission Construction Sites
VolvoCE and Hitachi Energy Team Up to Power Zero Emission Construction Sites Putting a battery into an excavator is the easy part. Keeping a yard full of electric machines charged, scheduled and working through a full shift, without tripping the local grid or stalling the build, is where the real headache starts. That gap between … Read more…
Lightship Drives Job Site Power With PowerSled
Lightship Drives Job Site Power With PowerSled The default soundtrack of a construction site has, for decades, been the low rumble of a diesel generator. Walk onto almost any job site at dawn and you’ll hear one before you see a single tool swing. Lightship, the Broomfield-based electric mobility firm best known for its Aero-Electric … Read more…
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