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Martin Weissburg, 51, has been appointed new President of Volvo Construction Equipment. Weissburg is currently President of the Volvo Group’s customer finance company, Volvo Financial Services, VFS, and a member of the Group Executive Team. He will assume his new position on January 1, 2014, and replaces Pat Olney. Martin …

More than a hundred Volvo machines are working at the biggest open cast coal mine in Asia. Korba is the industrial hub of Chhattisgarh state and the power capital of Central India. Its landscape plays host to a number of giant power projects, but its show piece – the Gevra …

The NEW Terex® Finlay I-100RS direct drive ø860mm x 860mm (Ø34” x 34”) horizontal impact crusher with variable speed gives operators unprecedented levels of fuel efficiency and production in both recycling and quarrying applications. The robust and proven Terex chamber gives excellent reduction ratios and high consistency of product shape.  …

Tennessee based highway contractor, Robert Smith Inc., recently laid more than 49,000 m2 of compacted concrete at a Jack Daniels distillery site. The official nickname for Chattanooga in the USA is the Scenic City – reinforced by the city’s growing reputation as a haven for all kinds of outdoor activity. …

Nickel Asia Corporation is one of the world's largest producers of limonite nickel. Its four mines in the Philippines extracts over 60 million tonnes of nickel a year – with help from Volvo construction equipment. The L150G-Series stands tall and proud, ready to work   Lying between the South China …

London based Oakwood Demolition, have invested in ACE Plant’s latest on-site dust suppression machinery. With an increasing workload, Oakwood Demolition decided to evaluate their current arrangements for controlling dust on site and soon became drawn to the versatility of ACE Plant’s Dustfighter range. A DF7500MPT working on an Oakwood Demolition …

Bespoke rehandling equipment is working on a large land regeneration project on the edge of the River Thames in Essex, UK, unloading crates of soil and reclaimed materials.  The Thames Estuary in Essex, Southern England, is where the River Thames meets the waters of the North Sea. The estuary is …

ONLY AVAILABLE IN PDF FORM FOR DOWNLOAD  click on image After the issues of LECTURA Directory China, LECTURA Market Reports, LECTURA Magazine China, now the release of the LECTURA Guide Chinese Machinery, which again brings more transparency to the Chinese construction industry. The largest and most active Chinese manufacturers of …

  Sebastien Pirlet, from Belgium, has emerged victorious from the final of the 2013 Case Rodeo operator competition. An incredible group of skilled operators from 13 countries took part in the European Final, having already won their respective country competitions. This included the competition’s first female Swedish operator, Lise Lott …

For the first time, the state road construction authorities in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt have tested a new temperature measurement system during a partial resurfacing of the A14 near Magdeburg. With the MOBA PAVE-IR™ Scan system, the temperature is measured over the entire area during paving. Using this data, …