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Volvo ABG pavers are working on one of Europe’s most significant high-speed rail construction projects in northwest France. Le Mans is well known as the home of motorsport’s toughest test of speed, endurance and efficiency – the 24 Heures du Mans race. Now, just like the cars at the Circuit …

Flannery Plant Hire (Oval) Ltd was established by Patrick Flannery in 1972, when he purchased his first machine, a JCB 3C backhoe loader, for the princely sum of £5195.00. Since those early days, the business has always been at the cutting edge of plant and machinery technology, to ensure that …

Newry, Northern Ireland 10th March 2015: Excavator attachment manufacturer Hill Engineering, based in Newry, Northern Ireland is recognised industry wide for its innovative culture. Over the last two-years Hill has been presented with the Plantworx Construction Machinery Exhibition’s Award for Innovation in the Engineering category and also the Queens Award …

With a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony, MOBA Mobile Automation AG officially began construction of a new factory hall at the company headquarters in the city of Limburg in Germany. The electronics company is investing approximately four million euros in the construction of the 1,800 square metre hall and modernisation of the …

Derbyshire based Hyundai dealer EP Industries has recently struck a deal worth £190k with utilities services company Gallagher. Gallagher has expanded its existing fleet with four new Hyundai machines – a R220LC-9A excavator, a HL740-9A wheeled-loader and two new 25D – 7E forklift trucks. Gallagher is also looking at buying …

Several of Canada’s rural municipalities have purchased SDLG wheel loaders and are finding them valuable in their fleets. When it comes to government equipment, value and versatility are key. It’s for these reasons that SDLG wheel loaders are beginning to see more and more action in Canada, where municipalities are …

Delivering four 91 tonne TR100 rigid haulers from Scotland to Russia for diamond giant, ALROSA, is no mean feat – and that’s before embarking on an epic, 5,543 miles (8,920 km) sub-zero adventure to Russia’s frigid Far East. With prices perennially high, miners love diamonds even more than girls do. …

Stagnation in Europe and accelerated decline in China dampened demand during Volvo Construction Equipment’s final quarter of 2014, resulting in a dip in sales of 6% during the period. For the full year, sales at the company were down by 1% during 2014. In the fourth quarter of 2014 Volvo …

A dozen Volvos are hard at work in Ghana, the word means warrior king, helping the vertically integrated Justmoh Group in its mining, construction and road building activities. The Volvo machines work in tandem, increasing productivity on the job site. The Republic of Ghana is a sovereign state, bordered by …

Intermat 2015, Paris: April 20-25 2015 – in Hall 5b Hyundai Heavy Industries Europe (HHIE) will present the first six models of the new excavator range at Intermat 2015. The engineers at Hyundai have utilized the Tier4/ StageIV momentum to re-develop the machines from scratch. Hyundai says that many improvements …