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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 …

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 …

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 …

More than a million tonnes of coal is cleared in just 24 hours at India’s largest port facility – Krishnapatnam Port Company Ltd (KPCL) in Muthukur. Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) machines are working furiously at the Krishnapatnam port, moving more than a million tonnes of coal in 24 hours. …

The first SDLG excavators in North Africa are already at work, helping to make history in Morocco by playing an important role in the construction of the first high-speed rail line in the country. The Moroccan government says the high-speed rail link under construction in the country will help boost …

In a further example of divesting, where appropriate, company-owned dealers to well-financed independent distribution partners, Volvo Construction Equipment has sold its dealership interests in Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to the Ascendum Group. Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has announced that it has …

Enterprise Minister, Arlene Foster, has announced that Terex Finlay is strengthening its position in Southern Africa. The Minister said the company, a global leader in tracked mobile materials processing equipment, has located two key sales and technical support staff in Johannesburg, to support a newly appointed distributor for the region.  …

​Leading Chinese construction equipment manufacturer, Shandong Lingong Machinery Co., Ltd. (SDLG), showed a broad range of products at the inaugural bauma Africa where the company was present alongside South African dealer, Babcock International Group. The emphasis for both SDLG and Babcock was on delivering strong service and parts support for …

Anders Hedlund, who works in technical engineering at Älvsborg Roro, and Björn Nilsson, a Volvo Penta test engineer, stand beside the MAFI terminal tractor that is running a Volvo Penta Tier 4 Final D8 test engine at Älvsborg Roro’s Port of Gothenburg operation. It’s all well and good to put …

In a spot overlooking the Rhone River in the heart of Geneva, construction and demolition specialist HTP is demolishing a block of former offices on the busy Rue du Stand, using the first-ever full factory specification Volvo EC480D-Series high reach excavator.  A Volvo EC480D HR high-reach excavator owned by demolition …