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The Doosan DA30 Articulated Dump Truck (ADT) has won the EquipmentWatch 2022 Highest Retained Value (HRV) Award for Rear Dump Trucks. This is one of 30 award categories covering construction, lift/access and agricultural equipment, all powered by EquipmentWatch’s industry-leading database and more than nine million market observations. The awards culminate over 100 analyst hours reviewing and ranking more than 27,000 equipment models.

The evolution of the construction, quarrying, recycling and mining equipment and materials sector will be discussed and debated in a series of free webinars in the run-up to the 31st edition of the Samoter exhibition at Veronafiere in Verona, 3-7 May 2023.

ProStack, a Terex Materials Processing brand (Terex MP) and manufacturer of bulk handling solutions, has appointed Milaha as the latest addition to its global dealer network.

Crushing and screening plant versatility and innovation can generate impressive operating cost reductions

Komatsu has introduced an upgraded version of its HD1500-8E0 rigid-frame off-highway haul truck.

Volvo CE president Melker Jernberg is dedicated to putting the off-road equipment manufacturer at the centre of the major changes that are coming to the sector in using new technologies to provide sustainable solutions for customers. He spoke to Liam McLoughlin about the company’s plans

American nonresidential construction spending was down by 0.3% in October, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) analysis of data published by the US Census Bureau this week. Nonresidential spending totalled US$898.4 billion for the month on a seasonally adjusted annualised basis.

Cathy Barton, the Senior Geologist for IGO, has won the 2022 Maptek Geology Challenge for producing alternative geological models to better understand water-bearing structures on a disseminated nickel deposit. 

Vice President of land & quarry operations at Granite Construction Co. and NSSGA member Gary W. Johnson testified on Wednesday in front of the US Senate Committee of Environment and Public Works. He highlighted the industry’s key issues, such as infrastructure implementation challenges; permitting reform; Buy Clean initiatives; and the current situation with rail service.

A major new partnership focused on inspiring and preparing young people to become the workforce of the future for the mineral products sector has been established between Minerals Matter - the Mineral Product Industry's future skills arm - and The Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC), the national body for careers education in England.

The biennial Plantworx Construction Equipment Exhibition and the CEA have once again teamed up with the educational organisation, Primary Engineer, to work with primary schools in the Peterborough area of East England on a new and exciting STEM construction project. 

Connected Map is a positioning service from Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE), which provides a visualized site overview for all machines – including non-Volvo machines – and vehicles on a site, accessible by personnel in the machines and the office.

During its annual business meeting this week, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) announced its 2023 officers and directors elected to the AEM Board of Directors and Agriculture and Construction Equipment Sector Boards.

The National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association's President and CEO, Michael Johnson, has issued the following statement supporting the nomination of Shailen Bhatt to lead the US Federal Highway Administration. NSSGA previously shared this letter of support with the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works ahead of their vote.

Many of the thousands of visitors each day to the recent bauma 2022 exhibition in Munich, Germany, will have passed an outdoor area by the East Entrance where a large, animated crowd were taking part in BKT's (Balkrishna Industries Ltd) basketball hoop challenge. Participants attempting to score basket after basket as the clock ticked down were flanked by the Indian off-road-tyre major's giant 3.5m-high EARTHMAX SR 468 tyre for rigid dump trucks (40.00 R 57), the largest in the company's history, plus two EARTHMAX SR 46 tyres (33.00 R 51 and 27.00 R 49, respectively). The eye-catching off-road-tyre trio are all aimed at quarrying customers looking for tyres to complement their increasing demand for high-power and robust machines.

Lintec & Linnhoff has started production of its asphalt and concrete batching plants at its newest facility, a manufacturing site in Johor, Malaysia.

As Hitachi Construction Machinery UK celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, one of its loyal UK customers will soon reach the same milestone. Over the last 49 years, Kent-based Gallagher Group has become one of southeast England's leading building, civil engineering, quarrying and property development businesses, employing more than 500 people.

CEMEX says it has delivered one million m3 of Vertua ready-mix concrete in Colombia since the product's launch two years ago. The carbon-cutting concrete was used in some of the most relevant projects in the South American country, negating the emission of 178,000 tons of CO2. 

National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA) member Gary W. Johnson, vice president of land & quarry operations at Granite Construction Co., is participating in a hearing held by the US Senate Committee of Environment and Public Works on the implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, examining private sector perspectives.