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CASE Construction Equipment has significantly expanded its dealership reach across Europe over the past three years.
Leigh Harris, who has been working as CASE’s business director for the UK and Republic of Ireland since early 2017, has been a key figure in enlarging the CNH Industrial brand’s dealership reach.

Whether it is a delivery of aggregate or a mound of spoil, any stockpile can now be quantified by pointing an iPhone at it and walking around using the Stockpile Reports Lite iPhone app.

The Czech Republic’s foremost purchaser of Hitachi construction machinery has further enhanced its fleet with a new ZX490LCH-6 large excavator. Ceske sterkopisky, one of the country’s leading suppliers of aggregates, is utilising the machine at a demanding sand and gravel quarry near the town of Veltrusy, north of Prague.

During the first quarter of 2017, Metso signed three new long-term maintenance contracts with major mining companies in the Pacific Rim region.

CMS Cepcor, based in Coalville, Leicestershire, central England, and Requip Supplies, based in Newark in the neighbouring county of Nottinghamshire, have agreed a new strategic supply partnership.

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is divesting its wholly-owned British dealership to long-term distribution partner SMT.

Jakto Excavations has taken delivery of a further three Volvo A25G articulated haulers, increasing its mixed fleet of A25s and A30s to 17 machines.

Maxoptra’s dynamic route planning and scheduling software has been implemented by LafargeHolcim (Russia) for time-critical cement delivery operations.

EvoQuip has launched a new addition to its impact crushing range, the Cobra 230 impact crusher. The Terex brand offers a comprehensive portfolio of products for the compact crushing and screening markets, including construction and demolition; asphalt recycling, and quarrying or contract crushing.

Indian based tyre manufacturer BKT has developed four special tyres that it says are ideal for being fitted on loaders and material handling equipment in the recycling sector. “This sector and any related application areas appear to be fairly interesting in terms of tyres that are subject to severe strain. Not only do they have to meet the requirements as far as resistance and durability are concerned, but they must also offer stability to the equipment and thus a certain level of comfort to the operator,”

Earthmoving contractor Kelston Sparkes Group has added four additional Bell Equipment B50D articulated dump trucks (ADTs), bringing the total number of this model to ten. Established in Bristol, south-west England, in 1952, Kelston Sparkes has grown to operate one of the largest fleets of ADTs in the UK, and has continually strived to increase the capabilities of its fleet, with the addition of larger excavators, crushers, screens, bulldozers and rollers.

Baggerbetrieb Fred Walther has bought a new Hitachi ZX300LCN-6 for a long-standing contract on an asphalt recycling site belonging to Südwest Asphalt.