Burkina Equipments is now increasing its geographical coverage in the construction and extraction markets in Burkina Faso. The company is part of the Ja Delmas network and is now a major player in supplying heavy equipment for the construction, mining, energy and transport sectors in Burkina Faso.
Engine manufacturers have had to jump through regulatory hoops in recent years, meeting requirements for diesels with ever cleaner exhaust emissions. When this programme was first proposed, many believed the final aims could not be achieved. However on January 1st 2011, the Tier 4 Interim/Stage IIIB emissions regulations will come into force in North America and Europe and all the major diesel manufacturers will have suitable products at the ready. The Tier 4 Interim/Stage IIIB emissions regulations require
UK-based Cooper Research Technology has expanded into the US with the acquisition of James Cox & Sons, of Colfax, California in September 2012, and the appointment of US asphalt expert Dr Geoffrey Rowe as a non-executive director. Cox and Cooper are a good fit culturally. Both firms were founded by inventors – Jim Cox and Keith Cooper – and both are built on strong links with academia: Cox with UC Berkeley and Cooper with NTEC at Nottingham University. “It is the joint intention to be a customer focused bus
Wirtgen is now offering a new version of its concrete slipformer control package. This new tool offers additional capabilities and improved performance over the earlier version.
The company claims that its upgraded Wirtgen AutoPilot 2.0 package can deliver a higher paving accuracy along with lower costs. Newly-developed, this package is said to produce a wide array of offset and inset profiles, while also delivering these more economically and precisely than with the previous version. The 3D system can eit