Trimble is introducing its new Earthworks package at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2017. This is a major development for the firm, as Jeff Drake, business area manager for machine control systems explained, “We’re bringing out our new machine control platform.”
Luck Stone says it is the first company in the crushed stone and aggregate industry to launch a remote control pit loader.
Based in Richmond, in the US state of Virginia, the firm collaborated with several partners, including experts from MIT, to develop the remote control tool. It is already being put to use extracting stone from Luke Stone’s Bull Run Plant in Chantilly, Virginia.
“This tool gives us options that we’ve never had before and allows us to optimise resources at our plants while creating
The bi-annual CECE Congress was held in Spain when participants looked forward in a bid to see what will happen in the next ten years. Growth markets such as China, India and Brazil offer big opportunities to European construction equipment manufacturers. As companies, particularly those from China, start to expand outside their own countries the competition for business will increase, and it has been claimed that there is no such thing as 'the global market', rather it is the sum of hundreds, if not thousa
