The company wants to offer operators ‘tomorrow’s edge today’ and, with 22 machines on display, Hyundai believes it can do just that at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2017 – with four themes shining through: performance, convenience, serviceability and safety
The new Grove GRT655 rough-terrain crane includes features most commonly associated with much larger cranes. The crane was unveiled at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2017 on Tuesday. “We have loaded the GRT655 with features that companies usually see on cranes in larger capacity classes,” said Paul Cutchall, product manager for rough-terrain cranes at Manitowoc, which operates Grove.
The Trimble Quantm alignment planning system, on show at CONEXPO/CON-AGG 2014, allows road designers to cut planning time and deliver projects with little environmental and social impact at a reduced cost. The system analyses millions of alignment alternatives and returns a range of options to the planning team for consideration. When new data becomes available the Quantm system can quickly recalculate more alignment options.
The efficiency of asphalt compaction performance has improved immeasurably in recent years with the development of more effective equipment. Manufacturers have honed the designs of the machines, making them easier and more comfortable to operate, improving visibility and also tackling issues such as maintenance downtime by making the equipment more reliable and quicker to service.
However one of the biggest advances in compaction performance has come not from the machines, but from the control and measur
Sandvik’s Thomas Schulz talks to Claire Symes about market recovery in construction. In the three years since the last CONEXPO-CON/AGG exhibition, the construction industry has been through a tremendous change triggered by the global economic downturn. “At the time of the last exhibition in 2008, it was already clear that there was a levelling out occurring in the market,” said Sandvik president of construction Thomas Schulz. “But it was in October that year that the economy went into freefall after the col
