Caterpillar Paving is now rolling out its F Series paver range. These models offer increased performance and capabilities, delivering higher paving quality.
Advances with machine control technologies are providing major benefits right across the construction sector - Mike Woof writes
With the massive bauma 2016 exhibition now having run its course, the construction sector look set to benefit from a range of new machine control technologies. These systems are being offered across a range of different segments in the equipment sector. Bulldozing was one of the first portions of the earthmoving segment to benefit from machine control systems, but a vast array o
US contractor Conewago Enterprises is using a paver from Volvo CE to lay a roller-compacted concrete (RCC) surface at the Liberty Trust distribution centre in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.
This facility lies close to Interstate-81, which runs through the Appalachian Mountains from the Canada-US border to Tennessee. This 1,376km route carries heavy truck traffic and as a result, hundreds of distribution warehouses have being constructed along the route of this busy transport corridor.
Conewago Enterpris
Russian construction firm Kamdorstroy has carried out a successful demonstration of recycling techniques to over 60 highway officials, academics and contractors from all over the CIS states. The demonstration was carried out in co-operation with the Russian Federal Highway and Tatarstan Highway authorities and involved milling, recycling and overlaying a road with hot mix asphalt. The work was carried out on a 7.5m wide roadway with 3.8m wide lanes (with an overlap) using machinery and techniques new to Rus
