With a range of new products on display, Case explains how its graders and excavators can help operators all over the world across a range of sites and the most difficult terrains – from the start of a job to the finish.
The machine control sector has been lively in recent months with a major acquisition, the unveiling of new software innovation and landmark testing of new technology to monitor paving temperature. Guy Woodford reports The state road construction authority in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt (LSBB Saxony-Anhalt) has become the first nationally to test MOBA’s new PAVE-IR Scan temperature measurement system at a works site.
A tough machine assembly operation at extreme altitude has been carried out by two cranes from XCMG
The cranes were used to assist in the assembly of a large excavator needed to assist in production at an extraction operation in Tibet. Located at an altitude of no less than 5,400m on the very remote Mila Mountain, the extraction sites was aiming at upgrading its operations and boosting productivity with the addition of a new 100tonne class excavator.
The two cranes, an XCT100 model and a QAY300A machi
A new Hitachi ZX870LCR-5 owned by Swiss company Lachat is making a significant impact on the production process at the Asuel La Malcôte quarry in the canton of Jura.
The large Zaxis-5 excavator is excavating a mixture of marlstone and limestone materials in a much cleaner way than before, as well as helping to sanitise the relatively unstable site.
Lachat, founded in 1948 and taken over by the Steiner Group in June 2013, has 42 employees working in quarrying, recycling and the production of aggregates
