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ASECAP’s fourth annual Road Safety Event brought together industry experts to discuss best practice for tolled highway operators to further reduce road fatalities and injuries throughout the European Union.

White lines on nearly a third of Britain’s single-carriageway A-roads are so worn out they do not meet recognised standards, according to the LifeLines Report from the Road Safety Marking Association (RSMA).

Astec, the US-based manufacture of hot mix asphalt (HMA) plants and associated equipment, has appointed Sergey Dymov as director of sales, Northern Europe.

Highly integrated safety engineered into the Staxo 100 load-bearing tower has won Doka the European award for safety in structural engineering in Spain.

Terex Cranes is using Intermat as the launch venue for its new Challenger 3160 all-terrain crane.

Mersey Gateway backers have hailed the UK government’s decision to give the project planning approval as “fantastic news”.

The SMOPYC exhibition will have close to 100,000m² of covered exhibition space, as well as an outdoor area and a demonstration area providing a total surface area for the show of 300,000m².

The new Doosan DX225LCA excavator being launched at Intermat has an operating weight of between 21.5 and 23.2tonnes, depending on the configuration. Its bucket capacity ranges from 0.39 to 1.28m3. It also has a digging depth of 6,620 mm, a reach of 9,900mm and a digging height of 9,750 mm.

Fugro Aperio is launching its SCANNER survey service, which it says offers competitive, efficient and dynamic highways data collection to assist road agencies and local authorities in reporting to National Indicators.

Norra Länken (Northern Link), a 16km highway and tunnel system in the centre of the Swedish capital Stockholm, is one of the country’s largest highway and infrastructure projects.

Haulotte Group (HG) increased its Q4 2011 sales by 13%, compared to the same period of 2010. The rise took consolidated October 1 to December 31 2011 sales to US$107.1million (€82.2 million) compared with $94.5million (€72.5million) in the same three months of last year.

Chinese companies may play a role in the e1.5 billion A6/A9 highway project in the Netherlands.

Sennebogen’s three machines on display at Intermat 2012 have been chosen by the company to represent its crane, lifting and industrial material handling technology.

A report into the state of Latvia’s bridges shows that one in three requires major works, with 100 requiring immediate repair.