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When asphalting the inside of the newly raised edge of a water dam, Austrian road construction company Strabag faced a challenge. The paver had to be operated at an angle of between 34-41 degrees with material fed into the hopper from a ledge just 2.8m wide on the edge of the dam. The Waldeck 2 kidney-shaped hydroelectric station is located on a mountaintop about 500m above sea level on Lake Eder in central Germany. The dam, owned by global energy group E.ON, has a perimeter of about 3km. An important pa

Two XCMG HB41K truck-mounted concrete pumps have successfully completed construction of box girders for the Nanning-Guangzhou bridge. The work carried out by the two machines was complex and required them to be on site for more than 1,000 days in all. During the project construction, the team used a number of concrete pumps from other suppliers but these proved unequal to the task. However when the XCMG machines were brought to the site, these proved successful in the application. The bridge will provide

Shantui exported two SD32W 239kW bulldozers to a customer in Serbia that had, only last year, purchased three of the same machines. The previously bought bulldozers had been operated for 20 hours a day and surpassed 1,000 working hours without fault. The five purchased SD32Ws are Shantui’s first bulldozers exported with a self-lubricating trackshoe system. The demands of the European market has required Shantui to develop a new approach to its products, such as integrating a Tier 4/Euro Stage IIIB com

Cumbria-based Hyundai dealer Taylor & Braithwaite has sold the first Hyundai R125LCR-9A in the UK to Stephen Smith Plant Hire, also based in the county of Cumbria. Stephen Smith is a one-man-one-machine operator who works all-around the Cumbrian region. This new weight class machine was first launched in 2014 at the Hillhead exhibition in the UK. Smith said he had to wait almost a year because the machine had not been available yet in the UK.

Volvo Construction Equipment is opening up the remote Portuguese regions of Duoro and Trás-os-Montes for development through one of the largest road tunnels in the Iberian Penninsula. The Túnel do Marão project takes in Portugal’s sixth largest mountain, the Serra do Marão. At a height of 1,415m above sea level, it presents a major obstacle between the country’s second city Porto, located on the coast, and Vila Real near the Spanish border, even since the construction of the winding IP4 highway, built in t

A traffic officer caused consternation in China as a marathon was being held. The policeman was directing traffic and trying to ensure the safety of those competing but attracted the attentions of hundreds of female runners while doing so. The raucous runners stopped running and instead crowded around the hapless handsome hunk, who closely resembled a famous Chinese actor who plays a police officer in a popular TV series. The runners all wanted their photos taken with the officer, who is recently married an