Features

Off-the-road tyre major BKT has big sustainability-driven plans to develop its premium product portfolio. Guy Woodford sat down with Dilip Vaidya, the company’s senior president and director of technology, and Piero Torassa, BKT Europe’s field engineering manager, at the recent bauma exhibition to get the inside track on BKT’s exciting growth agenda

The Àrids Garcia quarry has been at the centre of its community in north Catalonia for over 60 years, providing essential materials for infrastructure in the region. It is now also a site for the nesting and conservation of rock birds in addition to housing a restored Roman ruin that is open to the public

The Turin–Lyon high-speed railway is one of the projects providing major opportunities for hauler manufacturers in Europe, involving extensive earth-moving and construction.

A Cat 982 XE wheeled loader is proving a fuel-and-carbon-saving win-win for Gravière d’ Epeisses (GESA) at its large Montfleury gravel pit near Geneva airport in Switzerland. As Guy Woodford found, the 982 XE is part of a large premium machine fleet supporting the company’s busy operation, which will also be key to its exciting growth plans.

Washing plants are a crucial and evolving element of the production of high-quality aggregates and sands. Guy Woodford reports on some of the latest in-demand solutions

Sustainability is a huge topic across the construction and quarrying industry – not just in terms of what can be achieved tomorrow via carbon-free hydrogen fuel cells and hydrogen internal combustion engines of machine fleets, but today, through the use of smart technology to make jobsites more efficient and sustainable by getting work done right first time, every time