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Balfour Beatty this week began construction on a €23.05 million (£19 million) scheme to bypass two congested villages and link communities in Sefton along the west coast of Merseyside in Northwest England directly to the M57 and M58 motorways. The road will be 4.5km long and connect the A565 Southport Road to the motorway junction at Switch Island, avoiding the villages of Thornton and Netherton. The newly designated A5758 Broom’s Cross Road will relieve long-standing traffic issues in the area and provid

JCB has forged a partnership with leading global manufacturer Kohler Global Power Group to produce engines for its compact equipment. The water-cooled Kohler Direct Injection (KDI) engines - which will be branded JCB Diesel by Kohler - meet the next stage of emissions regulations without the need for a diesel particulate filter (DPF). The first JCB machine to be fitted with the new engine - a JCB 35D 4x4 Teletruk – was recently unveiled at the RWM waste management show at the NEC in Birmingham, Engla

With the new sizes, Michelin’s tyre offer covers all types of articulated dump trucks (ADT). Launched last year, the XADN + tyre is already said to be providing work site and quarry operators with improved ADT versatility, productivity and safety, when fitted on trucks involved in everything from motorway projects, to sandpits, quarries or surface mining operations. The XADN + is said by Michelin to have enhanced resistance to sidewall cuts and scrapes thanks to the addition of a protective belt. Additiona

Thannhauser + Ulbricht Straßen- und Tiefbau of Fremdingen in Southern Germany, is currently upgrading the country's B 2 federal highway near the town of Roth and employing four new Doosan DA30 articulated dump trucks (ADTs) and a new Doosan DX490LC-3 crawler excavator for the earthmoving work. The machines belong to the rental fleet of Rühle Maschinenpark, based in Untermünkheim-Haagen, South West Germany. The B 2 is one of Germany's oldest highways and runs the entire length of the country for a distance

Preparations are well underway for the SMOPYC 2014 construction equipment show, being held at the Zaragoza Exhibition Center from 1st to 5th April. The main associations in the sector are to attend the show, completing the agenda of parallel activities, including the organization of reverse trade missions from international markets such as the United Arab Emirates, India, Mexico, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Turkey and Iran.

EU support will help pay for work to the German A3 autobahn between the major cities of Frankfurt and Nürnberg. Co-financing worth just over €6 million will come from the TEN-T Programme a project to expand and upgrade the busy A3 autobahn. The initiative, which was selected for funding under the 2012 TEN-T Annual Call, involves the upgrade of nearly 8km of the A3 Frankfurt-Nürnberg autobahn to three lanes in each direction - from east of the Kauppen Bridge to west of junction 64 (at Rohrbrunn). Presently t

Work is underway on the Laohekou-Gucheng-Hanjiang Bridge in Hubei Province, China. When complete the bridge will measure some 11.7km long in all, including the 4.8km long central Laohekou-Gucheng section. The project includes a 1,453m long main bridge, which is costing some US$188 million to construct. The bridge route and runs from Wangjialou Village in Laohekou city linking Xiangyang section of the China National Highway 316 (G316) and ends at Wangjiawan Village in Gucheng county linking Gucheng section o