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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, …

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 …

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, …

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 …