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VF Venieri claims that its new articulated backhoe loader, the 823E, is the only such machine on the market which is hydrostatic and multi-functional. “This machine will be ideal for local authorities and contractors who want one machine that can do many tasks,” said VF Venieri managing director Filippo Muccinelli. As with all its machines, the back hoe has hydrostatic transmission, which brings with it a number of advantages, according to Venieri.

VF Venieri has diversified from its traditional range of smaller machines to launch the 18-63, a 19tonne, 3.5m3 wheeled loader. Though this is the most widely sold type of machine in the world, Venieri believes its new machine can forge a place for itself, according to managing director Filippo Muccinelli.

Lintec has launched new asphalt and concrete mixing plants at bauma 2013. This rounds up the company’s product range and continues to put special emphasis on the subjects of energy saving and the recycling of asphalt pavement (RAP).

Tesmec has developed new technology for its range of trenchers, which makes its machines ‘almost automatic’, according to business development director Paolo Celeri. ‘Trenchtronic’ allows the trenchers to self-adjust the engine load and travelling speed, depending on the soil type.

More than US$ 800 billion of major infrastructure investment projects will drive increasingly high levels of demand for the global construction equipment supply sector in Brazil over the next five years, according to a new report from Sobratema, the Brazilian association of technology for construction and mining. The entire chain of supplies and services will benefit from a massive Brazilian road-building and social housing construction boom as the country gears up to host the 2014 soccer world cup and the