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Three years ago a welder’s cut halved Canada’s old Port Mann Bridge. David Arminas reports from the banks of the Fraser River. By the time this issue of World Highways reaches you, one of Canada’s iconic steel arch bridges will be a shadow of its former self. It’s been a three-year demolition job since the first cut across the deck of the old Port Mann Bridge just outside the city of Vancouver on Canada’s Pacific coast. A new 10-lane 2.2km Port Mann Bridge opened in 2012 (see box). It runs parallel to the o
BEUMER Group has unveiled its latest effort to create cost savings at cement plants.
Autopac 3000 is an economic and efficient system for simultaneous loading and palletising of bagged material including cement, lime and gypsum used in construction.
The process eliminates the need for hand bagging, which is time consuming and imprecise.
A conveyor delivers the bags and also acts as a second quality control check. The bags are weighed as they move, and those that don’t register properly are returned
Ringway, a Eurovia company in the UK, has taken part in a self-driving vehicle test on public roads in the English city of Milton Keynes.
For the three-day test, two Ringway trucks provided a rolling roadblock behind an autonomous Jaguar Land Rover passenger vehicle. The trucks were there to ensure other highways users were safe and not inconvenienced by the tests, according to Ringway.
Ringway also supplied two supervisors and two traffic management vehicles.
