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Volvo Construction Equipment is among those leading the R&D of machines for the quarry and construction sites of the future, with a recent showpiece event at the company’s Swedish HQ emphasising its eye-catching work.

A range of futuristic concepts and innovations from electromobility to intelligent machines and total site solutions were on show at Volvo Construction Equipment’s (Volvo CE) Xploration Forum in Eskilstuna, Sweden.

Hundreds of the company’s customers, members of the international press,

Malcom Kent, senior technical consultant for the UK-based CEA (Construction Equipment Association), highlights concerns over the current global technical standard for earthmoving machinery visibility. If you are in any way involved in the safety of earthmoving machinery you probably already know that there is a problem with the technical standard for specifying what operators need to be able to see from their work station. This goes back several years when a German citizen submitted a petition on the matter

Five Indeco HP18000 FS hydraulic breakers working in Italy and India show that maxi reakers can meet the challenge of extremely hard rock masses. Lucio Garofalo reports. Designed for demanding quarrying applications when the job calls for a very high output of material, the Indeco HP18000 FS (Fuel Saving technology) is extremely productive in situations where drilling and blasting is not a viable solution. Indeco says it is the only company manufacturing a breaker with 25,000 joules that maintains the versa

Efficient loading is crucial to the long-term success of any quarry operation. Guy Woodford looks at two of the most eye-catching new models for such applications.

In northwest France, Brest lies in a sheltered position not far from the Breton peninsula. During the Second World War, the city was almost totally destroyed and only a few buildings were left standing.

At the end of the conflict, large parts of Brest were constructed with with utilitarian granite and concrete buildings, as it became estab

The tri-annual UEPG Sustainable Development Awards Ceremony is a milestone event in the organisation’s calendar. The tri-annual, must-attend major UEPG event is the Sustainable Development Awards Ceremony. The 2016 Sustainable Development Awards is, therefore, a milestone event in the UEPG calendar.

The geological history of the Altmühltal region in upper Bavaria, Germany, reveals significant strata dating back over 140 million years when giant dinosaurs roamed the earth, writes Patrick Smith.

Rock from this period is now quarried, proving to be an important source of aggregate for the construction industry. Local company, Ernstberger, owns and operates four quarries in the area, using an array of Sandvik mobile crushing and screening equipment to process over 200,000tonnes of rock each year.

Large breakers are the only alternative today for quarrying applications where drilling and blasting is not an option. Lucio Garofalo reports on Italian firm Indeco’s impressive progress in this area of the quarrying equipment market.
In many countries, the use of explosives in quarrying is meeting growing difficulty due to environmental, logistical or safety reasons. In some cases, the problem has been solved by utilising large milling machines or cutter heads, but these solutions are not always an effect