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JCB’s historic fleet deal
December 4, 2013
JCB has won one of the biggest single orders in its history after securing a deal for 900 machines worth more than €61 million (£53 million) from leading UK plant hirer Fork Rent. The deal for Loadall telescopic handlers cements Ipswich, eastern England-based Fork Rent’s position as the UK’s biggest hirer of the product and with the most modern fleet of this type of machine. The machines are manufactured at JCB's World HQ at Rocester, Staffordshire, central England, and all are to be delivered before the en
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New Holland machines for Moldavia
December 4, 2013
The Moldovan Ministry of Transport and Road Infrastructure is investing €150 million to upgrade and refurbish 200km of the country’s major highway links. This funding is coming through a loan being provided by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
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AJC Civils adds more Volvo CE machines to fleet
December 4, 2013
Looking to continue its investment in high specification, good performance compact excavators, AJC Civils of Campbeltown, Argyllshire, Scotland, has replaced its five-year-old Volvo ECR88 Plus compact excavator with another new Volvo ECR88 Plus. AJC Civils proprietor, Jamie McLean, is said to have chosen the new addition to the firm’s plant fleet after being impressed by some of its features, such as hammer shear hydraulics, hydraulic quick fit and hose rupture valves on both boom and dipper arm. McLean is
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JCB’s Devine intervention on fuel costs
December 3, 2013
A leading UK civil engineering firm has hailed the fuel efficiency of JCB’s new tier 4i tracked excavators. Surrey-based J Devine Group has just purchased three JS130 models and is already impressed by the machines’ fuel efficiency and reliability on its housebuilding projects.
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Powerscreen XH320X’s first Crush
December 3, 2013
The new Powerscreen XH320X impact crusher was launched in late 2012 and the first prototype of the machine was sent to Crush Ltd in the UK for extensive testing. A customer of Powerscreen Distributor, Blue Group, Crush is a specialist crushing and screening contractor based in South Wales. They run and own an extensive list of plants that enable them to deal with customers’ crushing and screening needs quickly and effectively.
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Sennebogen 6130 HD crawler crane’s Austrian gravel works
December 3, 2013
A Sennebogen 6130 HD duty cycle crawler crane is said to be being successfully used by Gral Schotter to extract gravel near Graz, Austria. In the Wundschuh gravel pit, the 6130 HD model is working in dragline bucket operation. At an extraction depth of 13m the crawler crane is said to be penetrating particularly hard layers, a key reason why Gral Schotter was keen to use a duty cycle crawler crane of its size. An impressive 354kW is provided by the model’s diesel engine. The 6130 HD’s two powerful winches e
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Axtec’s drive-over axle weighbridge efficiency
December 3, 2013
Installation of dynamic drive-over axle weighbridges by Axle Weight Technology (Axtec) at eight of Hanson Building Products (HBP) production sites is said to be helping HBP improve the efficiency of its transport operations, while also ensuring the firm is legally compliant on vehicle weights and reducing its CO2 emissions.
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100th Warrior 2400 mobile screen delivered to Oman
December 3, 2013
Powerscreen has delivered its 100th Warrior 2400 mobile screen to its Oman distributor General Engineering Services (Genserv). One of Oman’s leading infrastructure companies, Galfar Engineering SAOG, originally requested a scalping plant from Genserv. Galfar required machines capable of providing output capacities ranging from 700-900tonnes/hour and, more importantly, that were mobile as they planned to use them for roads and building projects across Oman. Genserv recommended the Warrior 2400 scalping s
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Volvo wins on aggregate
December 3, 2013
In the Canadian city of Coquitlam, 3,628tonnes of glacial clay is being excavated every day across a 90hectare aggregate open-pit mine. LaFarge in North America is the largest diversified supplier of construction materials in the United States and Canada. For the last decade the company has used Greater Vancouver-based contractor, Vertex Excavating, to work across its 90hectare aggregate open-pit mine, exposing and transporting some of the best concrete aggregate material available on the market. Th
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Luck Stone targets success through multiple innovations
December 3, 2013
Luck Stone says it is the first company in the crushed stone and aggregate industry to launch a remote control pit loader. Based in Richmond, in the US state of Virginia, the firm collaborated with several partners, including experts from MIT, to develop the remote control tool. It is already being put to use extracting stone from Luke Stone’s Bull Run Plant in Chantilly, Virginia. “This tool gives us options that we’ve never had before and allows us to optimise resources at our plants while creating
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Doosan’s new 6 tonne compact excavators
December 3, 2013
Doosan has launched two new generation 6 tonne compact excavators, the new DX62R-3 reduced tail swing (RTS) and DX63-3 conventional tail swing models. Designed as replacements for the existing DX60R and DX55E machines, the new models are said to benefit from a significant improvement in hydraulic performance, through a 33% increase in maximum flow rate to 132l/min. The hydraulic system now also incorporates a load sensing system said to guarantee high hydraulic performance and smooth and efficient combined
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Sight unseen
December 2, 2013
Two British men are now counting the cost of a rather foolish idea they had. One of the men was keen to drive a powerful Subaru Impreza, despite the fact that he was legally blind, due to suffering a degenerative condition that has resulted in almost total loss of sight. With his friend sitting beside him giving him instructions, the blind man set off driving the high performance car along a public road. Somewhat predictably the car crashed when the blind driver failed to negotiate a large obstacle by the s
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Hannibal complex?
December 2, 2013
A wildlife photographer taking footage in South Africa’s Kruger National Park has had to have his car repaired following a somewhat unusual impact. The man was filming a herd of elephants, who were perhaps camera shy as they took exception to his presence. After several members of the herd moved towards the vehicle it was attacked by a large elephant, which rushed up to the car and rammed into it. Just what the insurance company will make of his claim for damages to the vehicle remains to be seen.
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Quick intervention
December 2, 2013
Two jewel thieves in the UK found their robbery soon faced a major hitch when a passer-by removed the keys to their getaway vehicle. The pair held up a jewellery shop and ran outside to see that someone had spotted the robbery in progress, pushed over their motorcycle and removed the keys. The two then fled the scene on foot and one was quickly caught in a nearby school while the other attempted to steal a car from a pensioner. But despite being stabbed in the head, the man refused to give up his car at wh
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Smashing argument
December 2, 2013
In China a father revealed his anger with his son in a particularly destructive fashion. The man rammed his Mercedes saloon into his son’s BMW sportscar at a busy junction in the city of Ma'anshan, which is in Anhui Province. The incident was captured on CCTV and as the son attempted to drive away, the father rammed the Mercedes again into the BMW. The son then jumped out of his car and ran away, with the father also abandoning the now-wrecked Mercedes as he pursued his son on foot. The two damaged cars wer
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