Through its local distributor, SOMTP Brittany, Liebherr delivered its first R 980 SME with bottom dump shovel in France in 2021. This is the largest member of the range developed and manufactured by Liebherr-France SAS in Colmar.
Bobcat has launched the new MT100 mini track loader, removing the need for manual labour, and replacing the use of wheelbarrows, shovels and hand tools in many applications in construction, demolition, rental, landscaping, agriculture and other industries.
German crane services company Merkel Autokrane selected two of its 250 t Grove all-terrain cranes for a challenging tandem lift in the Bamberg area of Lower Franconia. The GMK5250XL-1 and GMK5250L were called in to build a multi-story parking lot for one of the world’s largest online retailers of musical instruments.
The zero-emissions L25 Electric wheel loader by Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is building on its proven commercial performance with a host of upgrades that ensure further versatility, greater operator comfort and increased uptime.
The Howard Frankland Bridge has been an iconic Florida landmark for over half a century, carrying 132,000 vehicles along I-275 between Tampa and St. Petersburg daily. However, its infamous traffic jams have resulted in the bridge becoming a major chokepoint, and multiple expansions since its opening in 1960 have proven only partially successful in reducing congestion and traffic accidents.
The German Association of Construction, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering (VDBUM) awarded active personnel detection with the 2022 VDBUM Award. Active personnel detection is an intelligent assistance system developed by Liebherr for the Group’s wheel loaders.
One of several world premieres from Doosan at Bauma 2022 is the launch of the company’s new 4x4 articulated dump truck (ADT). Complementing the company’s standard, market-leading range of 6x6 ADT models, the new 4x4 version of the DA45-7 ADT is intended to compete with rigid dump trucks (RDTs) in the 40-tonne class.
Spinelli S.r.l. (Spinelli Group) has ordered the first Generation 6 crane to their fleet of Konecranes Gottwald Mobile Harbor Cranes at their terminal in Genoa, northwestern Italy. Their container handling operations will benefit from improved performance of this crane, its doubled service life and its improved eco-efficiency. The order was booked in July 2022 and the crane will be delivered in December.
The requirements for construction machinery and vehicles are high: They are intended to prove reliability and efficiency even under adverse operating conditions.
In the second quarter of 2022, imports and exports of construction and earthmoving equipment both recorded increases on Q1 levels in £ value and tonnage shipped terms. In £ value terms, trade was at the highest quarterly levels for both since 2013, when monitoring of trade has been recorded.