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 …
Read More »Living on the edge
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 …
Read More »China Machinery Guide 2013/2014
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 …
Read More »Belgian Operator Ropes 2013 Case Rodeo Title
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 …
Read More »Quality comes first: New monitoring system tested in road construction in Germany
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, …
Read More »Pat Olney leaves Volvo Construction Equipment
Mr. Pat Olney, currently President of Volvo Construction Equipment, has decided to leave his position to take up a new challenge in a non-competing, large engineering company based in the U.S.A. Pat Olney will remain in his present position until year end. Mr. Olney, aged 44, joined Volvo CE in …
Read More »Mortar under the bridge in India
The old Pakuria Bridge in Jharkhand, India, ran over a dry river bed and railway line situated 20 km from Culcutta. Now obsolete, the bridge has been brought to the ground in 60 days using Volvo construction equipment. West Bengal in eastern India is the nation’s fourth most populous region, …
Read More »Green mine in China feels chemistry with Volvo
The Sichuan Lomon Corporation (Lomon Group) in China is the largest supplier of phosphate in Asia – ranking fifth globally – and is the largest extractor of titanium dioxide in China. The company’s green mine in Panzhihua produces 35 million tons of chemical products a year. Panzhihua is a city …
Read More »Watering India with Volvo Penta power
The Godavari Tubewell Drilling Company borewell unit, with Ingersoll Rand air compressor powered by a Volvo Penta D16 engine, is shown in action in Western India. With the need for private water wells making air compressor-powered borewell operations more and more vital in western India, Volvo Penta has begun …
Read More »The Tower Light appoint a Danish Distributor
Tower Light, the Italy based manufacturer of commercial lighting sets and environmentally biased construction machinery have appointed the Jutland based tool suppler, Ep tools a/s, as their distributor for Denmark. Ep tools will market the complete range of Tower Light lighting sets and provide a complete after-sale back up service …
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