Europe

Continental has successfully enhanced its material handling tyre portfolio with its updated ContiPT18 solid tyre.

DEVELON, formerly Doosan Construction Equipment, will showcase three excavators at World of Concrete in Las Vegas, USA, from 23-25 January 2024.

Hanson's proposed purchase of Mick George Limited could result in less choice and higher prices for building contractors, says the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

A close-up look at driverless hauling, a mobile haul-road dust-suppression water truck from the world's biggest off-highway machine manufacturer, and a top articulated dump truck manufacturer is a big draw at a popular industry exhibition

Holcim has entered a global strategic partnership with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to advance its nature strategy based on measurable biodiversity and water targets.

ETH Zurich researchers deployed an autonomous excavator, called HEAP, to build a six metre-​high and sixty-​five-metre-long dry-​stone wall. The wall is embedded in a digitally planned and autonomously excavated landscape and park.

Peikko Group Corporation and Bouygues Travaux Publics, a French global player in construction with operations in more than 60 countries, have signed a contract to cooperate and work together in developing and using a Steel Concrete (SC) construction method in Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and Small Modular Reactor (SMR) building projects.

Under its new evoZero brand, Heidelberg Materials is introducing the world's first carbon-captured net-zero cement to European customers. evoZero achieves its net-zero footprint by applying carbon capture and storage technology at the Heidelberg Materials plant in Brevik, Norway, without compensation from credits generated outside the company's value chain.

Major UK national plant hire company L Lynch Plant Hire & Haulage has invested £57 million with Finning UK & Ireland over the last two years as part of its innovation focus. The strategic move has added 305 new Cat machines to its fleet, complete with a full range of machine technology packages and specialist operator training. These advancements will bring many benefits to the firm's customers and projects.