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Technology from 3M is helping reduce the incidence of speeding in the UK city of Salford.

APT Skidata is offering a sophisticated long-range Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag and reader solution to complement its existing automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) capabilities. APT Skidata, says that there is a clear need for such technologies in applications where ANPR may not be cost-effective or practical to install and manage. Without the need for the driver to wave or press a card against a reader, the long-range tag is said to be more convenient than other forms of identification/

Sandvik Mining and Construction has launched the first representative of its new Basic Line breaker product line to the Indian market.

Zero tailswing excavators from New Holland are part of a plant deal won by civil engineering contractor K Rouse with Balfour Beatty. The machines, 11 E135BSRs and two smaller models, the E80 and E50, are being used on a section of the M621 motorway near the city of Leeds, northern England, to remove existing metal crash barriers and install improved drainage prior to the erection of a new concrete central reservation.

New tunnelling technology from BASF has helped cut construction time on a major tunnel project in Australia. The system has been used to speed waterproofing, an important point as the link runs underneath one of Australia's major rivers. The spray-applied polymer membrane provided by a BASF sprayed concrete machine saved time and effort on the construction of the Clem Jones 7 Tunnel (Clem 7) in Brisbane, Australia. The 4.8km tunnel was completed seven months ahead of schedule and at its lowest point Clem 7

Motorists are already benefiting from greater visibility on a stretch of the M25 and between the M2 and M20 near the port of Dover, County Kent, south-east England, where Astucia SolarLite studs have been installed. Now drivers between junctions 3 and 6 on the M40 motorway heading north-west from the M25 out of London also benefit from the studs.

A Hitachi excavator has enabled the creation of a subterranean six-floor car park in the centre of Paris. The ZX225USRLC-3 was used to dig deep below ground in the French capital and remove 65,000m³ of earth before construction of the facility could begin. For Saperfe Travaux Publics, a sub-contractor working on the project, the Hitachi machine was the only specialist equipment required. The clamshell telescopic arm of the ZX225USRLC-3 can reach depths of up to 25m.

Danish company DELTA, a leading supplier of retroreflectometers for road markings and road signs, will launch its LTL-M mobile retroreflectometer at Traffex in Birmingham, UK.

As engineers write tighter and tighter specifications for grouting, so equipment manufacturers must develop solutions which can help contractors meet those specifications, and prove that they have met them Atlas Copco's new mobile grouting system, Unigrout Smart A, has been designed to do just that: it can mix, pump, monitor, log and control flow and pressure precisely. The control system allows on site mixing of a range of grouts as required by the project.