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Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is introducing its biggest model yet to its continually expanding hybrid range, helping to increase fuel efficiency by up to 17%.

 

Soil stabilisation with the BOMAG RS 300 tractor-towed stabilizer.

In the Belgian city of Ostend, soil stabilisation with lime was required for 4,000 square metres of future industrial space. The Verhelst Aannemingen company was commissioned to carry out the work. The Ostend-based family business used the BOMAG RS 300 tractor-towed stabilizer for the first time.

Effective noise protection is an essential part of road infrastructure- both temporarily during construction and permanently along the finished road.

A retrofit to an Ammann asphalt-mixing plant is helping to lower odour emissions and is proving popular with those in the vicinity of the facility. An Ammann RAH100 dryer has replaced the existing component on a decades-old plant owned by Asfalt Productie Limburg (APL) in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium. The retrofit is of note as this is the first RAH100 to be employed in the country.

Hannes Norrgren is taking over as president of Volvo Penta Industrial.

Ferrovial will work on a key North Carolina road widening contract.

FAE says that its dedicated soil stabiliser is now well-accepted and can work to depths down to 500mm. Because the unit is towed by large tractors, it is suitable for smaller and more compact sites where self-powered stabilisers would be difficult to use.

As the units are towed by large tractors, the company also distributes the machines through a number of tractor dealers, according to Giorgio Carera, chief executive of FAE in North America. “That’s the kind of distribution we use.”

A landmark regional road safety conference convened by the International Road Federation (IRF) and the Bulgarian Branch Association Road Safety (BBARS) on June 1-2 2022 concluded with renewed calls for cross-border collaboration, institutional capacity strengthening, and investments in life-saving innovations to tackle the road traffic injury crisis that is responsible for 6,500 deaths annually in the region.

A concrete paving contractor in Florida reports success in a range of projects. Brevard Concrete Paving started small, with one truck and trailer, and the firm’s initial projects were jobs such as the installation of residential kerbs, pedestrian walkways and driveways. Soon, the firm had branched out to a wide range of duties such as paving filling station areas and work for the Florida Department of Transportation.