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.
Long reach demolition excavators are now special purpose machines, Dan Gilkes reports. The majority of construction equipment manufacturers offer a range of demolition specific machines, built to meet the needs of a sector of the industry that works its plant harder than most.
Production has started in Brazil of excavators from Shandong Lingong Construction Machinery (Lingong). The SDLG-branded machines will be built in a US$10 million purpose-built assembly hall within the Volvo Group site in Pederneiras, São Paulo state. Initially, four SDLG crawler excavator models will be produced at the new facility – the LG6150E, LG6210E, LG6225E and LG6250E models, covering weight classes from 13.8tonnes to 24.3tonnes. The excavators will be sold to companies working in a variety of indust
Truly innovative is Roadtec’s Shuttle Buggy material transfer vehicle. John Irvine, President of Roadtec, explains how and why the ‘Buggy’ changed the game of asphalt paving
Road paving technology changed dramatically in the 1930s when the American inventor Harry Barber unveiled the very first asphalt paver. Barber was what we today would call a “game-changer”.
Innovations like Barber’s don’t come around often. In fact, decades can pass until another breakthrough product pushes the productivity and q
