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Indian group BKT (Balkrishna Industries), a major player in the global off-highway tyre market, says it aims at a turnover US$2 billion by 2020.

The company says it is a challenging target but is based on “a positive trend of growth of 30% over the last five years corresponding to 6% market share in the specialist segments for agriculture, earthmoving, mining, and industrial vehicles and machinery as well as port, ATV and gardening applications.”

The company employs more than 7,000 people and sells o

Dutch company Magna Tyres is celebrating its tenth anniversary.

Ten years ago CEO Michael de Ruijter sold the first OTR tyres, and since then the company says it has grown into a worldwide organisation.

Since the launch in 2006, the company has experienced “an impressive year-over-year annual growth rate and continues to expand all over the world.”

While the product range started with OTR tyres, the range has been expanded with port handling, industrial, truck, and this year’s introduction agricult

The first stage of the new promotion initiative launched by Veronafiere-Marmomacc, We Speak Stone, and held in New York, has been completed.

It was attended by ten of the most important companies in the Veronese Stone District (Antolini, Bauce Bruno, Cereser Marmi, Formigari, Girasole Pietre Naturali, Montegrappa, La Ponte Marmi M&G, Marmi Scala, Domos and Testi Group).

This was the debut for a broader project that will see the organisation of other international stages accompanying companies to cons

CASE Construction Equipment has received a Bronze Level World Class Manufacturing (WCM) certification for its European excavator hub in San Mauro, Italy.

This follows an independent audit, and the achievement comes on the back of the brand’s investment in transforming the facility into a flagship production site for excavators in the EMEA region.

WCM is one of the global manufacturing industry’s highest standards for the integrated management of manufacturing plants and processes. It is a pillar-stru

Topcon Positioning Group and Volvo Construction Equipment are working together to establish a Topcon 3D machine control (3D-MC) solution.

The technology is designed to seamlessly integrate with Volvo Dig Assist (machine control 2D) on Volvo excavators and with Topcon workflow solutions for design and as-built data.

The Topcon 3D-MC solution integration on the Volvo excavator is designed to complement the Volvo Dig Assist capability by including the use of 3D design files and connectivity with Topcon w

Volvo Penta will begin production of 5 and 8litre industrial engines in India, aimed at the Indian market, next year.

The company has already been supplying engines for industrial and marine applications, to customers in the country for more than two decades.

Kubota UK will celebrate its 50,000th excavator sale at Hillhead by exhibiting a special edition 50K Gold Digger, a gold painted KX-71 mini excavator, next to an original Kubota KH10, the first mini excavator sold in the UK and Irish market, which was launched by the company back in 1979.

New machines making their UK debut include high-spec versions of two of its mini excavators, the KX101-3 and the U27-4.

Hillhead 2016 will also see the launch of Kubota’s new partnership with Trakm8, which will prov

In Iran, Mohammad-Reza Lotfi, deputy head of the Association of Cement Industry Entrepreneurs, is reported as saying that the Iraqi ban on Iranian cement imports has caused much trouble for the industry.

The only solution is to look for new markets, with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia named as possibilities.

About 7 million tonnes of Iran's cement exports or 60% of cement and clinker exports went to Iraq in 2015.

Meanwhile, Azerbaijan, another big market, has also reduced imports due to i

A number of 688,640 shares in JK Cement have been sold by Templeton Global Investment Trust's Templeton Emerging Markets Small Cap Fund on the National Stock Exchange of India. Each share was priced at INR 579 (€7.65/US$8.65).

RDS Technology’s Loadmaster α50, the enhanced colour touchscreen replacement for the Loadmaster 8kiX, is an on-board weighing system for larger loaders that will be making its world debut at Hillhead 2016.

The company says it is designed to help increase loading efficiency, cut vehicle movements on site and ensure trucks are correctly loaded first time as is the Loadmaster α100 on show.

RDS Technology’s iSOSYNC enables control of the loadout operation and inventory, productivity and traceability manag

With a focus on the entire drive train and beyond, Siemens says it will show at Hillhead why its integrated drive systems, weighing, level and flow solutions bring significant benefits to the industry.

It will also be a focus on maximising safety and security, functions it says are more essential than ever to bulk materials handling operators.

In drive technologies, Siemens will be displaying its Simogear and SIP gear units, and in large drives, showing how converter-fed motors can help leverage energ

Raysut Cement Company (RCC) of Oman has started to use a new silo with storage capacity of 20,000 tonnes at its factory in Salalah.

The silo has three compartments with capacity of 3,000-12,000tonnes each to hold oil well cement, sulphate-resistant cement and ordinary Portland cement.

It also has two units to load bulk cement at rate of 300 tonnes/hour.

The company plans to complete building a new packing plant with 150tonnes/hour capacity at the silo in the fourth quarter of 2016.