Ecuador’s Buenavista – Zaruma Highway will provide a key route that will help boost economic activity – Mauro Nogarin writes
Ecuador hopes to boost economic activity with the construction of new highway links. Most economic activity in the Piñas canton currently relies on agriculture, forestry and fishing. These sectors employ over 50% of the economically active population of the region. Meanwhile, most of the working population of the Portovelo canton is dedicated to mining and quarrying, with this area
Volvo Construction Equipment has started work on its new test and development centre in Hapcheon, Korea. The facility lies close to the company’s existing excavator manufacturing facility in Changwon. The new facility doubles as Volvo CE’s excavator testing capacity in Korea and includes an all-weather test dome, reliability and noise test field, workshops, various complete machine performance test areas and a customer clinic. Engineers at the 253,515m2 site will focus on excavator product development, adva
Small is beautiful, especially when it comes to robots, explains Jens Peder Kristensen, director of Danish company TinyMobileRobots With the increased functionality of outdoor robots, the market for autonomous robots as a replacement for human work has widened. The human touch is still needed when dealing with terrain that is difficult to navigate or with a crowded construction site.
