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Bobcats battle Spanish snow

January 21, 2021January 21, 2021 Editor

This month’s Storm Filomena surprised the entire community of the Spanish capital city, Madrid. Its streets, parks, roads and airport woke up to a great accumulation of snow, as what was predicted to be just 20 cm of snowfall instead turned into a much bigger storm. Sonia Royo, President of the community of the Polígono de Albresa de Valdemoro commercial area of the city covering 36 hectares and incorporating almost 600 affected companies, called in Bobcat Of, the Bobcat Authorised Dealer for the area, for help in carrying out snow…

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Fuelling the recovery

January 20, 2021January 20, 2021 Editor

JCB Finance is today marking a big milestone in its support of the UK construction industry during the coronavirus pandemic after delivering more than £50 million of loans. The vital cash has been distributed to the industry through the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) – designed to support the continued provision of finance to UK smaller businesses (SMEs) during the COVID-19 outbreak. As an accredited lender, JCB Finance has been assisting new and existing customers impacted by COVID-19, who need to invest in JCB equipment or other qualifying plant…

Mastenbroek unveils new trencher

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 Editor

Mastenbroek has launched the latest edition of its super compact rock trencher – the 20/14. The new version of the 20/14, which offers 215 horsepower and an off-setting digging mechanism to trench a depth of 1.4 metres, features several upgrades compared to the previous model. One of the most innovative refinements has been to reduce the machine width to 2.5 metres and with the ability to remove the forward discharge conveyors to enable a working width of 2.1 metres, making it ideal for use on continental Europe where narrow village…

Mick George dials DL-7

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 Editor

The Mick George Group, a leading supplier to the construction industry in the East Anglia and East Midlands regions of the UK, have taken delivery of the country’s first new Doosan DL-7 wheel loaders. As well as four new DL420-7 models, the order includes two DL580-5 and a DL300-5 wheel loader all now working at quarries within the Mick George Group, with a further new DL320-7 wheel loader arriving in mid-January 2021. The deal was confirmed just a few short weeks after Diggers and Dozers hosed a LiveStream show to…

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Ye Gods! CASE wins design award

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 Editor

CASE Construction Equipment has earned a 2020 Good Design Award® from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts Press for “Project Zeus”: the CASE 580 EV (electric vehicle) backhoe loader — the world’s first electric backhoe which is currently exclusive to the North American market. The award recognises “the most innovative and cutting-edge industrial, product, and graphic designs produced around the world”. This is the third CASE design to win in four years. CASE G Series wheel loaders were honoured in 2017, and the methane-powered concept…

Selwood goes vegetarian

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Editor

Selwood has become the first UK rental company to offer pumps that can be fuelled by vegetable oil in an industry-leading move that will significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions. The company has completed extensive testing of HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil) in its fleet of market-leading pumps. All Selwood pumps which have a Stage 3B engine – including the Eco range of units – S160Eco, D150Eco and HP35Eco – can now be run on the HVO fuel as an alternative to diesel. Selwood has also committed to ensuring that new pumps…

Doosan Bobcat at Finnish line

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Editor

Doosan Bobcat EMEA has appointed Wihuri Oy Technical Trade as the new Exclusive Bobcat Dealer for Finland. Wihuri Oy Technical Trade is one of the four divisions of Wihuri Group, which is ranked among the top 50 companies in Finland. The Technical Trade division is a market leader in municipal machines and tools for the management and maintenance of urban environments. The Wihuri Group operates in three other main industries, namely the packaging industry, grocery wholesale and air transport. Expanding from its strong roots in Finland, the Wihuri Group is…

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Video – JCB’s pothole purge

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Editorpothole

At 1pm on Monday the 11th of January 2021, JCB declared war on poorly maintained roads with the official launch of the new PotholePro machine. Just a few hours later, Diggers and Dozers convened a meeting of the War Cabinet, gathering together industry influencers and representatives from JCB’s Battle Command to discuss how the scourge of potholes might be defeated.

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JCB Pushes Pothole Purge

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Editor

JCB has developed a highly productive single-machine pothole repair solution to fix potholes permanently, first time, without the need for labour intensive repair methods or additional expensive machinery. The company has launched the PotholePro – a machine that can repair a pothole in less than eight minutes – four times quicker than standard methods and at half the cost of current solutions. Tests with contractors and local authorities show the JCB PotholePro can complete a pothole repair in less than eight minutes – equivalent to 700 potholes per month. With…

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Liebherr great for Danes

January 7, 2021January 7, 2021 Editor

The Danish company HM-Entreprenør is based just 1.5 km from the headquarters of the JMM Group, Liebherr’s Danish distributor. In 2017, HM-Entreprenør ordered 12 machines from Generation 6. Following the Bauma construction industry trade fair in 2019 in Munich, the company acquired 12 new Liebherr crawler excavators to replace Generation 6 excavators, and in early 2021 more excavators will be delivered. The company currently operates nine R 926s, three R 945s, to be joined by two new R 914 Compacts in early 2021. The machines are from the Generation 8…