Terex Trucks wants to expand its already 35-strong North American dealer network, bringing its TA300 and TA400 machines to even more customers throughout the region. With the way things are going, America – the ‘land of opportunity’ – will soon...
Thanks to its specially designed high-volume waste body, a customized TA300 articulated hauler from Terex Trucks is making light work of clearing waste at a recycling centre in Ayrshire, Scotland. Glasgow-based Clearwater is considered one of the UK's leading waste...
Luck Stone is pioneering the use of drones for quarries inspections, operations, and new project development planning. Drone data has uncovered $60,000 of hidden reserves at two different sites and managed $1 million of reserves by improving site design....
Townsville’s new $290 million North Queensland Stadium will be ready for the start of the 2020 NRL Premiership Season despite unprecedented flooding earlier this year. Housing and Public Works Minister Mick de Brenni said the stadium contractor, Watpac, has sought...
Automation technology is advancing, but what features do customers actually want? In this article Volvo CE’s Tina Lefebvre, Global Director Connected Services and Koen Sips, VP Customer Solutions, highlight how automated services are making every operator the world’s best. We...
Following the 2018 launch of the SDLG L958F in Australia, CJD’s BDM for SDLG Lea Clarke, set out across the great state of Queensland to put the new wheel loader to the test. Customers had the opportunity to test...
Bomag aims to make its maintenance and repair service even better and quicker for customers worldwide with a digital 'Service Communication Platform'.  Whenever required, development engineers investigate the problem personally and find a solution live and directly on site....
Rio Tinto has discovered copper-gold mineralisation at the Winu project in the Yeneena Basin of the Paterson Province in Western Australia. The Winu project is located approximately 130 km north of the Telfer mine and 350 km southeast of...
CJD Trucks General Manager Brian Firth, along with CJD Managing Director Alan Barnett recently attended the PACCAR annual dealer event, held in Queenstown, New Zealand. CJD Trucks were presented with the Cummins Dealer of the Year award for 2018  
Melbourne-based road and infrastructure specialist May Asphalt Group chose the Dynapac CP1200W. May Asphalt Group Managing Director, Rick May, explained: “Together with our focus on quality and safety, we also place a significant emphasis on sustainability. We’re fully certified to ISO14001 environmental certif ication,...
The new 18Z and 19C mini excavators have operating weights of 1.7-1.8 tonnes and are offered in four variants. There are two upper structure designs, zero tail swing (18Z) and conventional tail swing (19C). In both cases they incorporate improved...
Caterpillar introduces the 990K Aggregate Handler, designed to handle greater payloads in aggregates yard applications. With as much as a 25 percent payload increase, as compared to the standard 990K, the new Aggregate Handler enables customers to load trucks...
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has signed a maintenance and support agreement with International Container Terminal Services covering the automated container handling solution operating at Victoria International Container Terminal The order was booked in Cargotec's Q4 2018 order intake with the...
February 4th 2019 marks the momentous milestone of CJD Equipment’s 45th anniversary. Proudly representing some of the world’s most highly respected construction and transport brands, CJD have grown substantially since the company was first founded by Ron Rafferty and...
Based on SVAB's Quantum Tool Recognition system, Leica Geosystems and SVAB are releasing a new productivity tool for iXE3 and iGW3 machine control solutions. Tool Recognition is a wireless system that automatically detects the work tool that is used on...
COMER INDUSTRIES ACHIEVES SILVER CERTIFICATION FROM CATERPILLAR The SQEP certification ("Supplier Quality Excellence Process") measures the ability of a supplier to meet the supply demand requested by Caterpillar maintaining a certain standard on performance indicators. In 2018, Comer Industries achieved the...
Ram Equipment introduces its partnership with Kobelco. Kobelco is 80 years history Japanese manufacturer. In 1930, they produced the first construction machine in Japan: the 50K electric mining shovel. Since then they have created products and technology like no other...
Metso announced on October 26, 2018 its decision to invest in a new greenfield valve technology center in Jiaxing, China. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new plant took place today. The new technology center will start operations in spring 2020...