Latest construction product news
A mobile yard ramp from Thorworld Industries is providing the loading and unloading solution for use with heavy construction equipment at the Terex facility in Warwick. It's used for offloading new machines arriving from the company's Coventry plant and other European sites where these are not delivered on low loaders, but transported in containers or on standard 40ft long trailers.
The machines are stored on site prior to delivery to UK dealers and customers, when they are then driven up the... [more]
Dublin-based HSS Hire Ireland is part of the HSS Hire Service Group, the UK's largest tool and equipment hire chain. Towards the end of 2007, it opened its new Dublin Superstore, with a floor area of 22,955 sq ft, and launched a 26,500 sq ft Superstore in Belfast. The two new outlets will allow HSS to further increase its small plant offering to customers.
HSS Hire Ireland has now taken delivery of 23 Kubota mini excavators, making them the largest hirer of the machines in Ireland, with a tot... [more]
Among its many other products in asphalt and soil compaction, Hamm will feature its new Compact Line of asphalt rollers at Conexpo-Con/Agg 2008 this March in Las Vegas.
These new articulated tandem rollers offer big-time compactive effort in a small package equally at home for commercial or roadbuilding applications. They’re a new line of models in the 30 to 54-inch-wide drum size.
Featured will be the HD 8 VV, with a drum width of 31.5 inches; the 39-inch HD 10 VV and the slightly smaller... [more]
JCB is launching three new mini excavators designed to further enhance JCB’s range of compact models for small contractors, plant hirers, landscapers and utility companies. The three machines include two versions of the new 8055 and the 8020.
Based on JCB’s 8045 platform, the 8055 will be available as either reduced tailswing or zero tailswing and will compete in the 5-6 tonne sector. The machines will replace the existing 8052 in the JCB range and will go into full production during 2008.
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Compact Power recently unveiled the new 700 Series Compact Articulating Loaders, the 726DT, 732DT and the 749DT. These new models are powerful articulating loaders that are ideal for the landscaping, utility, rental and construction markets as well as a wide range of other industries and applications.
The 700 Series consists of powerful yet fuel-efficient diesel engines. All 700 models are equipped with hydrostatic transmissions, four-wheel drive for added traction and frame articulation that... [more]
A combination of a yard ramp and an extending dock leveller from Thorworld Industries Ltd has cut down the turnaround time for trucks unloading finished goods at kitchen appliance manufacturer, CDA Group Ltd.
The 10 tonne capacity Thorworld ramp is positioned inside the good inwards warehouse at the company’s Langar, Nottingham site. With an overall length of 12,200mm and a useable width of 2,250mm, the ramp is solidly built with a steel superstructure using the latest solid beam technique. I... [more]
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