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UK firm Siltbuster is now offering a larger and more powerful wet waste separation system. The new Gritbuster WT-250 is a larger version of the company’s proven technology for material washing, separation and aggregate recovery. The Gritbuster WT-250 is aimed at the road sweeping & trommel fines waste recycling markets and is capable of handling in excess of 25tonnes/hour. Using well established wet separation processes, the plant separates feedstocks into washed gravel and sand products. Raw material

Italian firm FAE Group has developed a novel Multi-Purpose machine range for use in road recycling applications. These versatile units form part of FAE's Construction line and have been designed to be reliable and efficient even in harsh working conditions. The highly rugged items of equipment are designed to deliver fast ground stabilisation working on roads, highways and airports, as well as other major infrastructure jobs. The units can also be used to build and maintain unpaved roads The Multi-Pu

Geophysical Survey Systems (GSSI), a manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, has launched a more affordable version of its non-destructive system, called RoadScan 30. The system is designed for measuring pavement thickness, conducting base and sub-base evaluations and measuring available asphalt prior to milling operations. Hundreds of miles of pavement layer thickness data can be collected in a day. RoadScan 30 can collect data densities not obtainable using coring or other labour-i

Researchers at Nottingham Trent University in the UK are developing smart scanning technology using existing cameras to detect early signs of pothole development The technology scans roads for ravelling - the loss of aggregates from the asphalt which leads to potholes and cracks. Combined with 2D and 3D scanners on a pavement monitoring vehicle, a computer vision algorithm can examine the road with accuracy at traffic speed during day or night. The system works by detecting different textures of th

A Caterpillar top hammer rig is said to be working well in a tough granite quarry operation in the US. The MD5150C rig is out-performing down-the-hole (DTH) rigs, with higher productivity and lower fuel consumption. Of note though is the fact that the machine is also delivering comparable hole straightness to the DTH machines. Iron Mountain Quarry is located to the south of St Louis, Missouri and the operation says that overall productivity from its Cat rig is almost double that of the earlier gener

The Brenner Base Tunnel is a key transport link and the use of the latest technology for support works has been played an important role. Work on the tubes of the Brenner Base Tunnel, one of the largest underground infrastructure projects underway at present, is seeing the use of sophisticated equipment. Excavation of the new Tulfes-Pfons section commenced in the third quarter of 2014 and the route will form part of the TEN Axis connection between Helsinki to Valletta. The new section, worth around €

Wacker Neuson’s smallest excavator, the 803 dual power, is punching above its weight on the Kocher Viaduct demolition project near Heilbronn in Germany. The electric-hydraulic and diesel-powered mini-excavator can fully deploy its advantages with emission-free work in confined spaces on site where construction company Leonhard Weiss is reconstructing the viaduct. At 185m, the Kocher viaduct is the highest bridge in Germany. Around 50,000 vehicles cross it daily. The Kocher viaduct was designed as a pr

A new Hitachi ZX870LCR-5 owned by Swiss company Lachat is making a significant impact on the production process at the Asuel La Malcôte quarry in the canton of Jura. The large Zaxis-5 excavator is excavating a mixture of marlstone and limestone materials in a much cleaner way than before, as well as helping to sanitise the relatively unstable site. Lachat, founded in 1948 and taken over by the Steiner Group in June 2013, has 42 employees working in quarrying, recycling and the production of aggregates

Doosan has launched the 30tonne DX300LC-5 Stage IV compliant crawler excavator, providing greatly improved performance over the LC-3 Stage IIIB model. Bucket, arm and swing forces in the DX300LC-5 remain the same as the Stage IIIB model, but the drawbar pull has been sharply increased by 8%. The operating weight of the DX300LC-5 has increased 900kg, resulting in a lifting capacity increase of 1% over the front and 5% over the side. The new machine’s styling allows increased driver comfort and vehicu

The Scottish arm of UK-based Breedon Aggregates has completed the largest acquisition of Cat machinery in Europe and the Middle East in 2014. The last one of the 29 machines have been delivered to Breedon, taking the company’s total investment in Cat machines in the past year to £2.5 million. Breedon purchased the machines through Finning UK, a division of Finning International, one of the world’s largest distributors of Cat equipment and power systems. Finning put together a package that included 25 utilit

Chinese construction equipment manufacturer XCMG is in the process of developing its operations outside of its home market, in a bid to strengthen its international profile XCMG recently won a large export order of 80 machines to the Middle East, which will raise the profile of the brand in this market. The deal is significant for XCMG as it gives the company a stronger foothold and greater brand recognition in the Middle East, helping with its plans to develop exports. The machine order includes an a

Volvo Construction Equipment has developed a range of Aggressive Cut Buckets specifically for compact excavators in the Nordic markets - Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland – as well Switzerland. Volvo said the buckets are designed for use especially with a Steelwrist Symmetrical Quick Coupler and Steelwrist Tilt Rotator. The company is introducing a complete range for machines in the 2.5-8tonne class, including digging buckets with the Volvo Tooth System, cable buckets with an extended cutting edge for

Over the past four years, there have been nine road worker deaths on the Highways Agency network in the UK. Statistics such as these are drivers for road authorities to improve health and safety for the workforce on the network. It takes just seconds to replace a Stimsonite Click Stud reflector compared to an average time of eight minutes to remove and replace a conventional bonded road stud. This greatly benefits the Highways Agency by reducing the exposure of road workers to traffic. Conventional

Haitsma Beton in the Netherlands has developed a lightweight precast concrete barrier system for temporary use. This T3 system is said to make investing in vehicle guidance more cost-effective. Each HaiSafe T barrier weighs 1.5tonnes and is over 10% lighter than comparable precast concrete barriers. The system is said to be easy and quick to locate, as well as to to assemble and disassemble. A novel feature is that no anchoring is needed at the ends, because the system has been tested and approved without a

Pavement engineering specialist Dynatest has improved its best-selling falling weight deflectometer, allowing it to not just collect more data, but collect it faster. The Danish company said its FastFWD8002, which was unveiled at the Transportation Research Board annual meeting in Washington in January, is five times faster than the previous model. The FastFWD8002 collects 75% more test points per hour, meaning it can have around 45% less traffic exposure. The previous unit is upgradeable to FastFWD80