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Pumping aids tunnel improvement work
July 28, 2015
In the UK, the busy Dartford Tunnel has benefited from the use of powerful pumping technology during improvements intended to boost traffic flow. Pump hire specialist, Sykes Pumps, helped by providing a pumping system, so as to enable piling for the conversion programme to a fully-electronic payment infrastructure.
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Smoothing concrete for airport runway
July 28, 2015
A contractor in the US is now using a piece of equipment for a specific application on a project at Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) Airport. The job required equipment able to deliver high quality to meet tough client requirements, so the contractor decided to use s 255CD Triple Roller Tube Paver from Allen Engineering.
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New machinery helps boost quarry production
July 28, 2015
A quarry in the US has managed to boost production by around 30%, thanks to the acquisition of new equipment. Replacing the old crusher at the Lafarge Pitt River Quarry has made a massive increase in production capacity, helped by improvements to the existing crushing circuit. ELRUS Aggregate Systems provided advice on optimizing throughput, with the facility further improved with the addition of a new CH660 cone crusher from Sandvik Construction.
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Bobcat increases Kuwaiti presence
July 28, 2015
Bobcat recently introduced its S450 skid steer loader at an open day run by its Kuwait dealer. Bahrah Trading Company (BTC) is the Authorised Dealer for the Bobcat equipment range in Kuwait and part of the Al-Sayer Group of Companies. The event was held at the Kuwait International Fair Ground at Mishref, where Bobcat loaders, telehandlers, excavators and attachments were demonstrated alongside Doosan Heavy and Doosan Portable Power products for which BTC is also the Authorised Dealer in Kuwait. Bobcat co
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Terex wins crane deals in Abu Dhabi and Qatar
July 28, 2015
Terex has scored crane deals in both Abu Dhabi and Qatar. Abu Dhabi-based Abu Nasir General Transport has now boosted its equipment fleet with the addition of a Terex AC 100/4L all-terrain crane. The machine joins an existing fleet of Terex cranes with capacities ranging from from 80 to 500tonnes. The company’s operations manager Asif Salim said, “At just 2.55m wide, it’s the most compact machine in its class, which is extremely important when working in confined spaces.” In the 100tonne capacity class an
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Retexturing crucial UK route
July 21, 2015
Contractor Balfour Beatty Mott MacDonald has used Klaruw’s advanced longitudinal grooving system, GrooveTex, to retexture sections of concrete surface on the M20 in the UK. The GrooveTex system improves and restores surface skid resistance by creating micro longitudinal grooves using closely spaced diamond-tipped saw blades at a predetermined width and depth. While being based on proven diamond-grinding techniques, Klaruw’s system is said to be optimised to provide significant improvements.
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Minnich offers versatile drills
July 21, 2015
Minnich Manufacturing said that its machine-mounted drills are now available with a number of features engineered to increase safety and productivity in dowel-pin drilling applications, and are available in both hydraulic and pneumatic options. Primarily used for full-depth repair, Minnich Manufacturing offers excavator or backhoe or skid steer-mounted units that suit horizontal patchwork jobs with a relatively long distance between the areas to be drilled. Apart from increased portability, the dowel-pin dr
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New Turkish bridge to complete highway
July 15, 2015
A modern, six-lane suspension bridge is under construction across the Sea of Marmara near the western Turkish town of Izmit. Turkish crane service provider Aydin Vinc is putting a 180tonne Sennebogen 5500 crawler crane to good use on lifting and logistics tasks. When finished in 2017, the six-lane Izmit Bay Bridge, 50km east of Istanbul, will carry more than 5,000 vehicles per day. The suspension bridge will not only complete the highway from Istanbul south to Izmir on the Aegean coast, it will also be t
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Hitachi digs deep into gravel pits for Swiss firm Scrasa
July 15, 2015
Swiss civil engineering company Scrasa has made a successful investment in a Hitachi ZX470LCH-5 as the main production machine for its sand and gravel pit. The large Zaxis-5 excavator was delivered to Scrasa’s Satigny site on the outskirts of Geneva by the country’s Hitachi dealer, Probst Maveg. The ZX470LCH-5 is part of a fleet of machinery that includes two ZX225USLC-5s, a ZX135US-5 and a ZX85USBLC-5, but it is the only machine based at Satigny. Scrasa said the ZX470LCH-5 plays a key role in the excava
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Road repairs with recycling for full reconstruction
July 15, 2015
Recycling of road surfaces has resulted in restoration and full renovation of a key California route. State Highway 137 in California’s San Joaquin Valley had suffered badly from the effects of weather, traffic and general ageing and the California Department of Transportation recognised the need to improve this route. A 15km section of State Highway 137 west of Tulare, which lies about midway between Fresno and Bakersfield, in the heart of the Central Valley. The road runs through the vineyards and almo
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Saint Gobain widens access cover range
July 14, 2015
Saint-Gobain PAM UK is now offering the Opt-Emax and Ult-Emax variants of its anti-skid treated GripTop range of access covers. These units have been developed to help boost safety for vulnerable road users such as motorcyclists and cyclists in particular. Conventional access covers can wear away over time and become smooth and slippery due to decades of traffic. These pose major hazards to motorcyclists and cyclists, particularly in poor weather. The GripTop range from Saint-Gobain PAM UK features D400 an
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Improved pedestrian safety in Qatar
July 14, 2015
Improved pedestrian safety is being achieved in Qatar with the help of new technology. AGD Systems and Qatar-based Traffic Tech Group have joined forces to install pedestrian detection systems. Traffic Tech Group will be AGD’s exclusive global distributor for the Puffin and Toucan pedestrian crossings in the region to increase pedestrian and cyclist safety and improve traffic flows. On-street trials of AGD-enabled Puffin and Toucan schemes commenced in late 2014 at a dual pedestrian crossing on the busy A
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Swiss contractor Ziegler upgrades entire fleet to Volvo loaders
July 8, 2015
Swiss construction firm Ziegler has recently taken delivery of 30 Volvo wheeled loaders, supplied and serviced by independent Volvo dealer Robert Aebi. In April 2015 Basel-based construction firm Ziegler replaced its entire fleet of wheeled loaders with new Volvos – a considerable investment for the company. Ziegler workshop manager Peter Blapp said the company’s old wheeled loaders had been in action since 1999 and were no longer fit to meet new regulations coming into force. From May this year all w
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Peri’s new MXK lightweight platform makes London debut
July 8, 2015
The new platform system MXK from German-based manufacturer Peri is easily assembled to suit site requirements. The flexible platform system with lightweight brackets is assembled at ground level, using lightweight components – scaffold support bracket stop-end rails, guardrail posts, the scaffold deck and the side mesh barriers PMB. Flexibility is the key, said Peri UK managing director Alasdair Stables during an indoor demonstration day held in the docklands area of the UK capital London. The object
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Sandvik’s proven cone crusher QS331 goes mobile
July 8, 2015
Sandvik Construction’s compact QS331 has been designed to accept large feed sizes and achieve high production capacities. Sandvik says this boosts productivity on applications such as Type 1, crusher run or in primary gravel crushing. For more than 30 years, the “S” type gyratory cone crusher has proven itself in stationary applications. The technology has now been incorporated into a self-contained, diesel driven track-mounted plant. The “S” type gyratory cone accepts a feed size up to 90% larger tha
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