Excavators, wheeled loaders and ADTs have all seen improvements for this year. New developments in earthmoving machines continue to help improve working efficiency for contractors. The excavator market is the largest single segment of the construction machine sector, with competition being tough between the major players, and a steady stream of new models coming to market.
Doosan has launched the new Stage IV compliant DX225LC-5 crawler excavator, which is said to offer high performance, fuel efficiency, r
Customers can face the choice of buying used or new equipment – Dan Gilkes writes. The decision to buy either new or used equipment is almost as old as the construction plant market itself. However some of the reasons for choosing between the two might well be changing, to meet new demands from customers across the world and to cope with a changing supply base. Ever more stringent emissions legislation in Europe, the US and Japan, rapidly developing emerging markets that want the productivity of the latest
A crushing and screening system comprising Sandvik mobile machines is proving useful on a project in Brazil. Construction work on the BR-222 highway in the city of Irauçuba, in the Ceará state close to the equator in the northeast of Brazil is benefiting from a fleet of Sandvik crushing and screening units. The mobile machines in use include a QA450 triple deck screener, QH330 cone crusher and QJ340 jaw crusher. The project involves upgrading the BR-222 highway, which joins the cities of Fortaleza and Sobra
