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Caterpillar is piloting four battery-electric prototype machines for the construction sector – two excavators and two wheeled loaders.

Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) (HCME) is meeting the growing need for emission-free equipment and a sustainable future with the launch of a new five-tonne battery-powered excavator, the ZX55U-6EB.

Mix-and-match power and performance is the concept behind the latest electric drivelines from Italian manufacturer Bonfiglioli.

As part of the company’s enterprise strategy to support customers during the energy transition to a lower-carbon future, Caterpillar is developing 48V, 300V, and 600V batteries for off-highway use.

Liebherr’s MDC3 digital smart camera has been chosen by Sandvik for use on its tunnelling and underground mining machines.

Liebherr has won an innovation award for its novel R9XX H2 prototype excavator, manufactured at the company’s Colmar facility.

Increased compaction forces are delivered by the new HC series soil compactors being introduced by Hamm. The new models are said to generate up to 15% more centrifugal force than the earlier generation models from the firm.

Ammann has developed an efficient technology for introducing RAP into the asphalt mix with its innovative RAH100 recycling system. According to the firm, this is capable of producing mix containing up to 100% recycled materials. Ammann says that the quality of the mix is high, despite the use of RAP however. The key advance that allows the use of RAP in such a high percentage has been the development of a gentle heating process.

SBM Mineral Processing, which describes itself as Europe’s largest manufacturer of mobile concrete plants, has developed a model that can act either in the mobile or stationary roles. One of the three variants can produce 150m³/hour.