bauma CONEXPO INDIA - Thu July 05, 2018
Registrations Exceed Expectations for bauma CONEXPO INDIA
The construction machinery market in India is booming. Infrastructure and construction projects are benefiting from long-term support thanks to reforms passed by the Indian government. These are positive signs that are also reflected in the number of companies signing up for the next bauma CONEXPO INDIA....
Eric Olson –CEG Correspondent - Fri June 29, 2018
Wheel Loader Design Involves Nuanced Advances Over Time
It's blisteringly hot outside, dust and dirt is flying all around and noise is hammering your eardrums. Such is the environment at a typical construction site in the warmer months, particularly a big job requiring a lot of earthmoving; highway projects and manufacturing plants are perfect examples....
Volvo - Wed June 27, 2018
Volvo, LEGO Technic Team Up With Children to Create Wheel Loader of the Future
Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) and LEGO Technic construction toys have joined creative forces with a team of children to design a futuristic, autonomous construction machine. The result: The LEGO Technic Volvo Concept Wheel Loader ZEUX set, scheduled for release in toy stores in August 2018, and the digital prototype for a real-world autonomous machine....
Dick Rohland – CEG Correspondent - Tue June 26, 2018
Crews Gear Up After Delays On Road and Sewer Project
As crews geared up this spring to complete the last piece on a major levee, sewer and road construction project in a small, bucolic river village in southeastern Minnesota, mother nature jumped in with different plans for them....
Mon June 25, 2018
Volvo's Formidable Excavator Six Pack
Was there ever a machine more adaptable, scalable, or shape-shifting than the excavator? Here we look at the versatility behind a selection of Volvo Construction Equipment's mighty machines. 1. The one with a small bum: The ECR18E is a 1.9-ton (1.8 t) class machine that can squeeze into the tightest of spaces, and due to its ultra-short tail design — the shortest radius in the Volvo range — it can work close to obstacles without colliding with them....
Volvo - Tue June 19, 2018
VIDEO: Volvo CE Tests Safety Concepts With Colas
Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is collaborating with its customer Colas on a research project that has seen the company develop and test a range of concepts and prototypes that contribute towards improved work site safety....
Highway Equiment & Supply - Mon June 11, 2018
Highway Equipment Puts Students to the Test at SkillsUSA
SkillsUSA Pennsylvania held its annual state competition on April 19, 2018. Highway Equipment & Supply Co. provided Volvo heavy construction equipment (HCE) for the HCE operators competition at Fort Indiantown Gap in Annville, Pa., and a Volvo excavator for the electrical diagnosis station of the diesel technology competition at the Lebanon Fairgrounds, in Lebanon, Pa....
Volvo - Thu June 07, 2018
Volvo Pushes Load Assist Real-Time On-Board Weighing Accuracy to +/- 1 Percent
Volvo Construction Equipment has updated the load assist application for its L110H to L260H wheel loaders and, together with a new version of the Android platform, operators will now get real-time information on every bucket's load within ± 1 percent accuracy....
Sondra Rossi – CEG EDITORIAL ASSISTANT - Wed June 06, 2018
Transforming a Tree Farm to a Successful Stone, Gravel Biz
How many small business owners can relate to what life was like when you were a young entrepreneur with an incredible idea? You had the business plan in place, but you needed the means to make it happen....
Eric Olson –CEG Correspondent - Wed May 23, 2018
Downtown Winston-Salem's Business 40 Seeing $99 Million Makeover
Winston-Salem, N.C., has been undergoing a major transformation for 25 years. Once known primarily as home to one of the world's largest manufacturers of cigarettes and other tobacco products, this dynamic mid-size city of 243,000 people is now regarded more for being a center of emerging technologies and a home to one of the South's most exciting and diverse arts communities....
