Analysis carried out by Off-Highway Research shows that the global market for construction machinery grew by 25% in 2017 to $88 billion USD. With sales of around 702,000 units in 2016, the market grew to 894,000 units purchased worldwide in [...]
A UK start-up company has secured exclusive distribution rights to the US-made SAM 100 brick laying robot. Grant van Wyk, a South African national living in Surrey, has set up Future Construct & Automation Ltd, to distribute US building automation [...]
The government has recently announced that plans to create a £250m lorry park just outside of the village of Stanford, have been scrapped. The lorry park was due to provide parking for up to 3,600 lorries to reduce the effects [...]
The CITB has recently revealed their 6 point plan to make the training body "more focused, efficient and responsive" following a government-commissioned review. In a 34 page review carried out by Mr Paul Morrell, a former construction advisor, the Department for [...]
UK exports of construction and earthmoving equipment continued on an upward trend in the second quarter of 2017, showing growth for the fourth consecutive quarter. Construction machinery exports in Q2 2017 increased by 2.0%, reaching £714m, their highest quarterly [...]
The Mega Jack 800 is an 800-tonne capacity jacking system that was launched in 2014 as part of ALE’s Innovation Series. Since then, it has been used to carry out jacking operations around the world and another system is now [...]
Korean construction machinery manufacturer Doosan has launched two new excavators with raised crawler tracks for higher ground clearance. Above: The Doosan DX160LC-5 HT The new DX160LC-5 HT and DX180LC-5 HT models are designed to meet the needs of those needing [...]
News from Cormidi, including new products coming Cormidi are to further improve their brand in the UK including new products due in later in summer 2017. The UK and Ireland represents one of Cormidi's strongest markets, with a large volume [...]
Paul Tudor, senior licensing manager for JCB, said: “We are very excited about this new partnership. Health, safety and wellbeing has always been a vital part of the JCB philosophy. This extensive range of fashionable, high-quality, tough prescription safety eyewear [...]
The Glasgow based hire company bought 900 machines from Kubota in 2016 and has another 300 on order. Kubota said that GAP was now its biggest construction industry customer in the world. GAP Hire Solutions plans to gradually replace all [...]
