Major manufacturers are introducing new machines for road milling and recycling that will boost output and lower the cost/m - Mike Woof writes
New machines for milling and road recycling will offer increased performance and productivity than earlier generation equipment. Higher quality cutting will help contractors achieve smoother surfaces and considerably lower paving costs also. Meanwhile new recycler/stabiliser machines will offer a better cost/m and improve the economics of road recycling for contra
The Volvo Group is preparing itself for the change to sustainable operations. Melker Jernberg is president of Volvo CE and commented, “We want to lead the transformation of our industry.”
Trimble is expanding its range of machine control technology options for users of graders and excavators with key new releases.
One is for the LOADRITE Payload Management system, which can now be utilised on excavators already equipped with the Trimble Earthworks Grade Control Platform. The other systems are new versions of the Trimble Earthworks Grade Control Platform that can be used with graders or deliver automatic guidance for tiltrotators.
These are key developments for the firm, boosting its ran
Increasingly, and where possible, roads are being built in tunnels often for environmental reasons, writes Patrick Smith As part of the new M7 motorway development in the southwest of Ireland, the four-lane route crosses the River Shannon near Limerick, before it flows into the Atlantic. Centrepiece of the 10km long Limerick Southern Ring Road is the required tunnelling (675m long), which including the north and south entrance and exit ramps, means it will be 915m long. Completion of the work is planned for
