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Tecnoidea has introduced a plate press filtration plant with high-beam design, which is capable of working at pressures up to 16bar and said to speed the location of and replacement of breached filters. The modular design can have up to 100 pairs of filters to cope with flows up to 9,000lit/min and each pair has an individual drain, making it easier to locate breached filters. For ease and speed of replacing breached filter material, the high-beam design incorporates a handling system to remove the relevant

Caterpillar is incorporating a number of paving technologies into its compaction, cold planning and paving machinery in response to customer request for improved technology. This includes Cat Grade and Slope, standard on many Cat pavers and cold planers, which is engineered to help paving crews to precisely lay and mill material.

Goodyear’s new wheeled loader tyre for heavy applications, the RT-5D, is said to offer 25% more carrying capacity, greater comfort and more powerful traction compared to its predecessor. The claim is based on internal assessment at the Goodyear Innovation Centre Luxembourg 2012 in comparison with the RT-5C (tested size, 29.5R25).

Komatsu expects to see ‘intelligent’ machine control as a standard feature on dozers, excavators and potentially other machines within 10 years. It has started the roll-out of its intelligent machines with the D61EXi/PXi-23 dozer and a prototype PC210LCi-10 excavator.

Leading Chinese construction equipment manufacturing firm XCMG has revealed plans to open a new research and development facility in the United States. Speaking at bauma 2013 Wang Yansong, the company’s vice president, said, “In the second half of this year we are planning to build a R&D centre in the United States. It’ll take about half a year to finish construction. It should open in 2014.” While Yansong would not reveal how much XCMG was investing in the US site, he said it was due to America, along with

Wacker Neuson has broken through the €1 billion mark for the first time, recording a turnover of €1.1bn in 2012. The company saw sales grow by 10% in the year with the biggest increase (20%) coming from the Americas. And despite the economic downturn, sales in Europe were up by 7% as they were in the Asia-Pacific region, which was adversely affected by the Chinese market.

Manitou's new Privilège Plus range of all-terrain rotating telescopic trucks is designed to provide three machines in one. There are three models – the MRT 1850+, the MRT 2150+ and the MRT 2540+, with nominal capacities of up to 5tonnes and lifting heights of between 19.9m and 24.6m. Features include quick-change attachments using an automatic recognition system. The machine can be adapted to become an all-terrain telescopic truck, a crane or an access platform. The company said that the range has been des

Two new all-terrain mast trucks have been introduced by Manitou. This Manitou range is now assembled at the company's Waco factory in Texas as the market is growing strongly in the USA but is mature in Europe. Shifting production reduces transport costs. Special characteristics claimed for the M30 and M50 include easy maintenance and use together with a high-quality mast that features tilting up to 15% and three lifting heights up to 7m.