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Ritchie Bros. making temporary changes to its onsite auctions to increase online participation...Information is moving fast and so is Ritchie Bros. With concerns about large gatherings growing around the world due to the COVID-19... Read Full Article

Environmental concerns have become the top priority for the largest steel producer in Taiwan, CSC (China Steel Corporation), as it currently completes a project in its Kaohsiung plant, in the planning since 2012, to reduce environmental impact... Read Full Article

An all-new grading bucket for Volvo’s smaller wheel loaders makes easy work of topsoil stripping, small-scale dozing, landscaping and levelling...As if Volvo Construction Equipment’s (Volvo CE) compact wheel loaders w... Read Full Article

CASE Construction Equipment introduces “Project Zeus” — the 580 EV (Electric Vehicle), the construction industry’s first fully electric backhoe loader. Th... Read Full Article

At the Baltic Port of Ust-Luga, around 100 km west of St. Petersburg in Russia, export capacity is being expanded further by the port logistics company Ultramar. This first-time customer of SCHADE Lagertechnik GmbH has ordered equipment for th... Read Full Article

Thanks to a great deal of hard work and an impressive new batching plant, Croydon-based company EasyMix Concrete are now officially BSI accredited, having achieved both BS EN 206-1 and BS 8500.Last week, the EasyMix team went down to the ... Read Full Article

Flow Patrol, Cornwall’s number one drainage solutions company, has taken delivery of a Volvo ECR18E compact excavator from SMT GB’s utility dealer for the Southwest of England, Plant and Engineering Services, following a succes... Read Full Article

JCB is suspending UK production until at least the end of April as a result of the coronavirus crisis and will continue to pay employees unable to work, the company announced today. The firm’s nine manufacturing plants i... Read Full Article

The Hyundai High-Walker (HW) crawler excavator is specifically designed for demanding forestry work, the factory-built machine has the capability to work like a Trojan in challenging and tough environments...Leigh Dalgleish, sale... Read Full Article

Doosan has launched the new DX490LC-7 and DX530LC-7 Stage V 50 tonne crawler excavators, providing significantly improved performance compared to the previous Stage IV models that sets a new benchmark for the 50 tonne class.These new 50 t... Read Full Article

Students construct a show garden for the Bavarian State Horticultural Show 2020“Climate Move” motto represents principle of sustainability in horticulture and landscapingLiebherr provides compact l... Read Full Article

Global tiltrotator manufacturer Engcon sums up this year's major construction industry event, the Conexpo 2020 in Las Vegas, as a resounding success. Represented on stands and with product demonstrations across the entire exhibition with machi... Read Full Article

For almost 51 years, stevedoring company, ZHD Stevedores, based in Dordrecht in the Netherlands, has been using Bobcat skid-steer loaders to clear the holds of ships and to move material around so that the ... Read Full Article

PhosAgro has ordered eight Chain Bucket Elevators for its Metachem Plant near St. Petersburg in Russia from AUMUND Fördertechnik GmbH. In 2014 AUMUND received its first order from the Russian fertiliser industry from the PhosAgro Metachem Pla... Read Full Article

Do more in less time with the market-leading power, outstanding digging efforts and faster digging equipment speed of the 5.5 tonne EC55D tracked excavator. Delivering breakout force of 42 kN, as well as superior traction, swing force and lifting ... Read Full Article

A maintenance manager strives for efficiency at a leading UK cement works near London. He knows about cement production after working in the industry for nine years before serving as the plant’s maintenance manager where he looks after its e... Read Full Article

Dressta’s new dozer has made its eagerly anticipated debut at ConExpo. The new TD-16N is a revolutionary dozer that sets a new benchmark for visibility.Right from day one, the LiuGong Dressta design team’s brief was simple ... Read Full Article

G Simpson (Builders) Ltd of Beauly, near Inverness, has taken delivery of a zero swing Volvo ECR25D compact excavator complete with an Engcon Tiltrotator. The machine has been supplied by SMT GB’s utility equipment dealer for the north o... Read Full Article

JCB is today stopping production at all of its UK manufacturing plants as disruption resulting from the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic causes an unprecedented reduction in global demand. The company is halting production for the rest... Read Full Article

Hydrogen Fuel Excavator development to start in 2020 with a target date for mass-distribution set in 2023Hydrogen fuel cells are more compatible with large construction equipment because of easie... Read Full Article