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SARL Maurice Vesselle, a family run wine producing business, had been considering for a long time the idea of getting a crawler excavator for work in the vines in the Champagne region. They had to convert an existing machine so that it could pass over the top of the vines. …

New report provides a sneak peak into the construction sector in 2045- 30km tall buildings with spaceports, driverless vehicles and mini-cities in the sky. These are just a few of the things we can expect to see in 2045, according to a new report from equipment hire giant, Hewden. Hewden’s …

Strotech Engineering based in Sofia, Bulgaria has recently been appointed as the Hyundai Construction Equipment dealer for the country. Strotech Engineering is a newly established company owned and managed by Mr Veselin Ivanov and chief executive Mrs Fani Asenova, alongside a team of ten staff. Mr Ivanov has 20-years of …

In northern France, just south of the port of Dunkirk, a Volvo PL4809D rotating pipelayer is helping to bring another section of pipeline towards the Belgian border. The French gas operator, GRTgaz, is investing around €56 million in a joint venture with Belgian operator, Fluxys, to build a 100 km, …

Hyundai Heavy Industries Europe (HHIE), a widely recognized leader in the European construction equipment and forklift market, held a groundbreaking ceremony last week, for its new headquarters in Tessenderlo, Belgium. The new HQ complex comprises a new, three-story, 5,400 square metres office building, a 13,000 square metres warehouse, a European …

Rohrbau Gmünd is relying on the precision performance of Volvo Construction Equipment’s PL4809D pipelayer for laying 2.6 tonne water pipes along 3.4km in Germany. There is no margin for error in the business of water pipeline laying. The 2.6 tonne water pipes are being laid with ease and precision by …

Professionals from across the construction industry have warned that any boost in productivity offered by the Conservative government’s Northern Powerhouse plan is threatened by a lack of available workers on the ground, according to research conducted by UK Construction Week. The concept, which involves the extension of devolution deals to …

For thousands of years the city that’s now Istanbul, and was once Constantinople and Byzantium, has been the gateway between Europe and Asia. The only obstruction in that gateway is the mile-and-a-half channel of the Bosphorus straits, currently spanned by Istanbul’s two bridges. Now, to direct traffic around the city …

Hyundai dealer EP Industries is exhibiting at the Great Yorkshire Show 2015 at the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate from Tuesday 14th – Thursday 16th July with a range of Hyundai machines including the new HL955 Wheeled Loader, which made its UK debut at the recent Plantworx exhibition. More than …

Volvo Construction Equipment has been awarded a SEK 59 million grant from the Swedish Energy Agency to develop new technology connected to electromobility which could transform the construction equipment industry. Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has teamed up with its customer Skanska Sweden, the Swedish Energy Agency and two Swedish …