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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 …

At last week’s Plantworx Construction Equipment Exhibition, at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground, Leicestershire. Lynch Plant Hire and Hill Engineering struck a deal for 50 new TEFRA Coupler’s worth £120K. Once delivered the new TEFRA Quick Hitches will be coupled with 50 brand new Caterpillar machines which Lynch also purchased at the …

It is not surprising that the Manitou Group is one of the major players in the construction market particularly in the rental sector by continuing to deliver innovative and fresh concepts for our customers in this highly competitive and demanding industry. Manitou UK also continues to dominate the rotary and …

Nothing stands in the way of US contractor, Century Companies and its Volvo pavers, including runways, highways, athletic tracksand parking lots. The Volvo 7110 paver creates a smooth mat finish Tucked on the edge of the Rockies in picturesque Lewistown, Montana, Jack Morgenstern founded Century Companies Inc. in 1975. Over …

Employing 17,500 people working across 21 countries including over 5,000 in the UK and with a reported turnover of over £698 million Cape is an international leader in the provision of critical industrial services principally to the energy and natural resources sectors currently serving 70% of the coal and oil-fired …

Cumbria-based Hyundai dealer Taylor & Braithwaite has sold the very first Hyundai R125LCR-9A in the UK to Stephen Smith Plant Hire, also based in Cumbria. One man and his digger! Stephen Smith is a ‘one man one machine operator’ who works all-around the Cumbrian region on building projects which include …