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A major contractor In Turkey is using new Dynapac pavers to resurface the busy Istanbul-Ankara highway. Onur Insaat Taahhut bought 12 new Dynapac compactors and pavers at the end of last year and is using two of its new SD135C pavers on the D-100 highway. In all 12 Dynapac asphalt paving machines and vibratory compactors were added to its fleet of equipment, and has put two of the tracked pavers to work on the Ankara to Istanbul link. The machines, four SD135C medium-sized tracked pavers, four CC524HF artic

Moba’s MDS-2000 Drilling System is being used for the first time in a South American quarry. Used over two shifts by operators since September 2011 to monitor and control drill blast holes at a granite quarry in Vacamonte, Panama, Moba has equipped an HCR-1200 EDII type drilling device from FRD Furukawa Rock Drill with the drilling system in collaboration with B-B-S Bohrsysteme. The MDS-2000 enables drill holes to be made parallel to each other and to the desired depth and pre-set angle. As well as cost an

Barin has exported its ABC 60/L skid unit machine to Brazil for use in bridge inspections in the South American country. The machine, which has an under bridge working length of 6m, has been mounted on a two-axle Iveco Daily 70C16 truck chassis by a Barin technician based in Brazil. Supplied to Rentavale Equipamentos LTDA, based in Sao Paulo, the ABC 60/L is made of aluminium alloy and has fixed and sliding elements, the latter extending up to 6,000mm horizontally whilst under bridge. Its platform width is

A new delineator design is said to be helping to reduce accidents on a 200mile stretch of one of the world’s most treacherous highways. Pexco LLC has produced the ‘Dalton Delineator’ for the Dalton Highway, a remote 414mile road in Alaska, reported to be the sixth most dangerous roadway in the world. The road safety system has a cantilever structure consisting of a short length of a Davidson Flexi-Guide FG 400 Roadside Delineator post mounted to a special flexible coupler.

Rockster Recycler is helping an Indian construction company reach its target of crushing two million tonnes of discarded building waste in a year. M/S Popular Construction, part of the Popular Infra Resources Group, is using two Rockster R900 Impact crushers with Duplex systems at four locations in India and plan to expand their deployment to eight sites. A spokesman for M/S Popular Construction said the company had chosen to work with Austrian-made Rockster machines due to their Duplex system, which allows

Liebherr claims its wide range of Litronic control system featuring CANUS software ensures construction projects are delivered on time and to budget. The system’s PDE data recording unit logs information such as depth, suspension levels, drilling speed and geometry. It then displays it in real-time via a colour touchscreen in the operator's construction machine cab. Due to constant awareness of the working process, the operator is able to adapt the PDE unit to suit changing environmental conditions. PDE rec