Using robotic total stations and Millimeter GPS, Topcon’s ZS100 combines two existing technologies to give operators fewer set-ups, fewer instruments – and a much simpler job site
It’s day four at bauma 2016 and our action-packed report from Munich gives you all the latest news on Trimble Loadrite’s connected quarry, Topcon’s smooth ride scanner, Terex Finlay’s giant impactor, CDE’s Infinity galvanised screen range, Metso’s monthly fee-based service solutions and the new Hitachi tunnelling champion.
The market for concrete pavers continues to fuel research and development into new models writes Mike Woof. The range and breadth of concrete slipforming and paving equipment on the market continues to grow as firms develop new and improved models. Prior to the recent CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2011 construction equipment show in Las Vegas, some of the best known manufacturers had already announced their new and improved slipforming machines. GOMACO, Guntert & Zimmermann, Power Curbers and Wirtgen all had recent or ne
Where the diesel engine was once the simple solution for OEMs wanting a power source, recent emissions regulations have added such cost and complexity to the diesel-fuelled internal combustion engine that there are now other simpler, solutions on the horizon. That’s the message from Julie Furber, executive director of Cummins electrified power business, who believes that electrification will be the new, simple power solution. “As a provider of power sources, Cummins is in a position to give its customers an
