Infrastructure Victoria has published the report of a community panel which it convened to consider changing the way Victorians pay for the transport network. The panel of 38 Victorians worked together over four weeks to consider the question: Under what...
Bomag aims to make its maintenance and repair service even better and quicker for customers worldwide with a digital 'Service Communication Platform'.  Whenever required, development engineers investigate the problem personally and find a solution live and directly on site....
Rio Tinto has discovered copper-gold mineralisation at the Winu project in the Yeneena Basin of the Paterson Province in Western Australia. The Winu project is located approximately 130 km north of the Telfer mine and 350 km southeast of...
CJD Trucks General Manager Brian Firth, along with CJD Managing Director Alan Barnett recently attended the PACCAR annual dealer event, held in Queenstown, New Zealand. CJD Trucks were presented with the Cummins Dealer of the Year award for 2018  
Melbourne-based road and infrastructure specialist May Asphalt Group chose the Dynapac CP1200W. May Asphalt Group Managing Director, Rick May, explained: “Together with our focus on quality and safety, we also place a significant emphasis on sustainability. We’re fully certified to ISO14001 environmental certif ication,...
The new 18Z and 19C mini excavators have operating weights of 1.7-1.8 tonnes and are offered in four variants. There are two upper structure designs, zero tail swing (18Z) and conventional tail swing (19C). In both cases they incorporate improved...
Caterpillar introduces the 990K Aggregate Handler, designed to handle greater payloads in aggregates yard applications. With as much as a 25 percent payload increase, as compared to the standard 990K, the new Aggregate Handler enables customers to load trucks...
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has signed a maintenance and support agreement with International Container Terminal Services covering the automated container handling solution operating at Victoria International Container Terminal The order was booked in Cargotec's Q4 2018 order intake with the...
Infrastructure Victoria has begun consultation with the community to inform its research into reforming how Victorians pay for the transport network. The first meeting of Infrastructure Victoria’s community panel on transport network pricing was held last night, bringing together people...
February 4th 2019 marks the momentous milestone of CJD Equipment’s 45th anniversary. Proudly representing some of the world’s most highly respected construction and transport brands, CJD have grown substantially since the company was first founded by Ron Rafferty and...
Based on SVAB's Quantum Tool Recognition system, Leica Geosystems and SVAB are releasing a new productivity tool for iXE3 and iGW3 machine control solutions. Tool Recognition is a wireless system that automatically detects the work tool that is used on...
COMER INDUSTRIES ACHIEVES SILVER CERTIFICATION FROM CATERPILLAR The SQEP certification ("Supplier Quality Excellence Process") measures the ability of a supplier to meet the supply demand requested by Caterpillar maintaining a certain standard on performance indicators. In 2018, Comer Industries achieved the...
The National Group have closed out a record breaking 2018 and started 2019 off with a bang by delivering a pair of brand new excavators into Queensland’s Bowen Basin. The first of these Excavators, a Hitachi EX5600, was added to...
Ram Equipment introduces its partnership with Kobelco. Kobelco is 80 years history Japanese manufacturer. In 1930, they produced the first construction machine in Japan: the 50K electric mining shovel. Since then they have created products and technology like no other...
Metso announced on October 26, 2018 its decision to invest in a new greenfield valve technology center in Jiaxing, China. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new plant took place today. The new technology center will start operations in spring 2020...
Ranger Lifting has named William Essey technical sales specialist, as the New South Wales, Australia-based company continues to expand its team at new Prestons headquarters nr. Sydney. Essey stepped into the role last month (December) but resumes in earnest...
After much anticipation and countless hours of product development, John Deere unveils three powerful and productive L-Series utility wheel loaders. The 524L, 544L and 624L offer customers an intuitive solution, ideal for projects that require agility and versatility on the...
A unique building materials company in Australia selected five new machines from Volvo Construction Equipment to help with loading and handling duties. The company, Repurpose It, is using new technology to recycle unprecedented quantities of material for re-use in the construction industry. Repurpose...