Walking the floors at one of the biggest construction shows in Europe is a tiring business: so let us take the strain for you while you catch up with the businesses and names which are making the headlines at this year’s INTERMAT.
It may be early days for using drones – unmanned aerial systems (UAS) -- to map
construction sites, but technology and legislation are moving in that direction.
At the moment drones can fly within only a 500m radius of the ‘pilot’ standing on the ground, making the flight area a 1km diameter. This is the key limiting issue for any sector, especially road construction, says Jonathan Gill, a robotics engineer and a qualified drone
pilot for the past seven years.
The logic is that a drone remains withi
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
A new report from IDTechEx Research highlights the value of electric vehicle range extenders. This business segment could be worth some $125 billion.
The new IDTechEx Research report “Range Extenders for Electric Vehicles 2015-2025” analyses and forecasts options and trends for range extenders in all applications. The report highlights that over $125 billion will be spent on this technology by 2025. Recent developments for the sector include specialist three cylinder engines and gas turbines as range ext
