Intermat 2018

Finding the best free gift at this year’s INTERMAT is a real challenge – and from rugby balls to biscuits there is a lot to choose from: but in a jam-packed, hectic environment, the greatest giveaway of the day is something that should help you relax.

Terex Finlay’s new crusher is just the thing when it comes to material reduction and product sizing, designed to work with blasted quarry rock and construction or demolition debris. Its great features include: hydrostatic transmission, a bypass conveyor and a hopper with hydraulically folding sides.

Case have been making graders for 30 years and say its new C series are the best available. The key features are low operating cost, controllability and flexibility, patented technology from FPT Industrial – and the possibility of 15% reduction in fuel consumption.

Hitachi Construction Machinery Europe boss Moriaki Kadoya told INTERMAT 2015 that the manufacturer wants to be number one in Europe as it launched a new hybrid ZW220 wheeled loader and a stage IV compliant Zaxis 300LC excavator.

In response to customer demand, Ammann has developed a new QuickBatch 180 containerised mobile asphalt mixing plant that is easy to transport and quick to set up. It uses a simple “plug and play” electric system.

Kristina takes a look at the TamiSoft machine which offers granular measurement of aggregate chunks. The system triangulates Laser beams reflected off the aggregate into a camera, which records up to 1000 measurements per second.

Video of the best moments from one of the industry's biggest construction shows: action-packed video of major deals, product launches and other big developments at INTERMAT 2015

The US firm is raising the bar at INTERMAT 2015, showing off the new version of its control system: it could save operators up to 40% and demonstrates how Trimble keeps pushing the boundaries of what is possible.

Hybrid-wheel loaders have never made it into production before – they’ve always been prototypes: but Hitachi has gone one step further than the rest of the construction industry, and operators could feel the benefit in lower maintenance costs and a longer product life-cycle

Take a look at how Komatsu is broadening its range with different-sized hybrid excavators coming to market in the next year or two: more than 200 of its current range are already operating on Europe’s job sites