Volvo Trucks presents second electric truck model in three weeks

Volvo Trucks presents second electric truck model in three weeks

🕔22:27, 8.May 2018

Just three weeks after the unveiling of Volvo Trucks’ first all-electric truck, the Volvo FL Electric, the company is expanding its product range with yet another electric truck. The Volvo FE Electric is designed for heavier city distribution and refuse

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Case celebrates 60 years of wheel loader manufacturing in 2018

Case celebrates 60 years of wheel loader manufacturing in 2018

🕔00:17, 8.May 2018

Case Construction Equipment celebrates this year its 60th anniversary of wheel loader production, which started with the W9, the first Case integrated four-wheel drive wheel loader introduced in 1958. The W10 and W12 four-wheel drive models and the front-drive W5

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Ponsse K121- more efficiency to forwarder load handling

Ponsse K121- more efficiency to forwarder load handling

🕔16:42, 7.May 2018

Ponsse presents the new loader for Elephant and ElephantKing forwarders. The new Ponsse K121 loader extends Ponsse’s loader series to a completely new size range. The new loader combines high slewing torque and lifting power, increased reach, and a new

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Caterpillar produces 5000th 793 mining truck

Caterpillar produces 5000th 793 mining truck

🕔14:48, 6.May 2018

Caterpillar recently completed assembly of the 5000th Cat 793 Mining Truck. Caterpillar data show that the milestone production figure far exceeds the manufacture of any other brand of 227-tonne size class truck. In production since 1991, truck number 5,000 represents

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Brokk introduced four new next-generation demolition robots at Intermat 2018

Brokk introduced four new next-generation demolition robots at Intermat 2018

🕔00:13, 4.May 2018

Brokk made the biggest product launch in the company’s history at Intermat in Paris. No less than four new machine models were introduced at once, together with a proprietary Brokk hydraulic breaker range and three new concrete crushers from Darda.

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Trimble and Kobelco announce Trimble Ready option for select Kobelco excavator models

Trimble and Kobelco announce Trimble Ready option for select Kobelco excavator models

🕔15:33, 3.May 2018

Trimble and Kobelco have announced the introduction of a Trimble Ready option for select Tier 4 Final Kobelco excavator models. Select excavators that ship from the Kobelco factory are now ready for the installation of the Trimble Earthworks Grade Control

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The new Rototilt R9 is the world’s largest tiltrotator

The new Rototilt R9 is the world’s largest tiltrotator

🕔10:43, 3.May 2018

The new Rototilt R9 tiltrotator opens up a new world for excavators in the 30–40 tonne range. The Rototilt R9 is a giant of a tiltrotator that transforms the largest excavators into flexible and super-strong tool carriers. Perfect for those

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Volvo’s E-Series pipelayers lift productivity, safety and versatility to new heights

Volvo’s E-Series pipelayers lift productivity, safety and versatility to new heights

🕔22:50, 2.May 2018

The PL3005E rotating pipelayer from Volvo Construction Equipment delivers superior performance capabilities, thanks to its excavator-based design and high-tech features. The rotating pipelayers from Volvo CE are packed with a host of state-of-the-art productivity and safety-enhancing features. Thanks to the

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Caterpillar Stage V engines set high standards for performance

Caterpillar Stage V engines set high standards for performance

🕔16:33, 27.Apr 2018

Caterpillar currently is developing productive, fuel-efficient, power-dense, EU Stage V-compliant engines across its industrial product line, from the two-cylinder C0.5, to the 12-cylinder, 32-liter C32. Goals for Cat Stage V engines include developing more efficient after-treatment systems, simplifying installation in

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CASE extends its G-Series Waste Handler wheel loader range at Intermat 2018

CASE extends its G-Series Waste Handler wheel loader range at Intermat 2018

🕔21:08, 26.Apr 2018

The G-Series Waste Handler wheel loader range now includes four models: the existing 621G and 721G, and the new 821G and 921G – all in Waste Handler version. The new CASE Waste Handler wheel loaders offer best-in-class visibility, fast cycle

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Atlas sells its Transverse Cutter business to Kinshofer

Atlas sells its Transverse Cutter business to Kinshofer

🕔12:06, 26.Apr 2018

Atlas GmbH from Ganderkesee, Germany sells its Schaeff Transverse Cutter business to Kinshofer GmbH based in Waakirchen, Germany. As a strategic measure Atlas has decided to put more focus on its core business, excavators, and cranes in times of increasing

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BKT displays extensive tire range at Intermat 2018

BKT displays extensive tire range at Intermat 2018

🕔17:16, 25.Apr 2018

It is particularly extensive, the BKT-branded portfolio exhibited at this year’s edition of Intermat with Portmax PT 93 debuting on a European stage. Also on display are the cutting-edge products out of the Earthmax lineup for the OTR segment as

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Deutz presents first off-highway hybrid drive at Intermat 2018

Deutz presents first off-highway hybrid drive at Intermat 2018

🕔20:50, 24.Apr 2018

Deutz will be exhibiting its first off-highway hybrid concept at the Intermat international exhibition for construction and infrastructure. Combining a TCD 2.9 diesel engine and a 55 kW electric motor, the new concept is the first tangible result of the

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Palfinger MFA jib: maximum reach and flexibility

Palfinger MFA jib: maximum reach and flexibility

🕔17:38, 20.Apr 2018

With the new MFA jib, Palfinger has increased the maximum reach of the TEC crane series by another 5.5 metres. Above all, the new application from Palfinger will meet the special requirements for longer reach and greater flexibility from customers

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Tobroco-Giant shows world premieres during first Intermat

Tobroco-Giant shows world premieres during first Intermat

🕔23:18, 18.Apr 2018

This year, Tobroco-Giant will participate for the first time to Intermat Paris. Here visitors can meet two world premieres. First, there is a 25 hp version of the new skid steer loaders, the SK252D. The second premiere is even more

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