New research shows the vital importance of emerging markets to the aggregate production industry, while leading aggregate production equipment manufacturers have brought new cutting-edge models onto the market. Meanwhile, recent equipment purchases are playing a key role in boosting the commercial success of customers in France and Malta. Guy Woodford reports
Demand for construction aggregates in the Asia/Pacific and Africa/Middle East regions is fuelling global aggregates sales growth, according to the
A major tunnel project in the Swedish capital Stockholm will mean that roads in a residential area will be safe from workmen repairing power cables. The tunnel will not be visible when completed, but its importance to the city's development is considerable. It means 10km of high voltage cable cutting through a residential area will be replaced with cables laid through the new tunnel, providing sufficient land for some 3,000 badly-needed new homes in an area divided down the middle by Lake Mälaren and the Ba
Borum Industri's BM350-2 and BM500-2 road marking machines, introduced more than three years ago, represented a major improvement in function and reliability for customers, says the company. While feedback from customers and Borum's own service and after sales department shows the machines have performed very well, suggestions from customers offered ideas for further improvements.
A key launch for Bell is a prototype of its 50tonne class ADT, the B50E.
Set to succeed the world's first production 50tonner, the Bell B50D, the B50E is a vital part of the second phase of South African firm’s E-series development programme. This phase encompasses Bell Equipment's trucks in the 35, 40, 45 and 50tonne payload classes.
Tristan du Pisanie, Bell Equipment's product marketing manager, said: "Our smaller 20 to 30 tonne E-series ADTs formed the first phase of development. They have been well ac
