Products

Following its introduction at bauma 2013, Ammann’s latest articulated Rammax 1575 CI trench roller is going into production at the firm’s Langenthal site in Switzerland. Ammann has more than 40 years’ experience in the construction of these special machines based on the Rammax product range. Today, Ammann is able to offer both articulated trench rollers in the form of the new Rammax 1575 CI and the tried and tested Rammax 1585 with skid steering. Customers can therefore choose the machine that best fulfi

Metso is supplying Colas with a complete crushing and screening plant for use at its Centre Ouest facility in France. This is a significant order and includes primary, secondary and tertiary equipment and the package also includes service maintenance contracts for inspection and extended guarantees. The aggregate produced in the quarry will mainly be used for road construction and this state-of-the-art crushing and screening system is said to offer substantial reductions in energy, production, transport

The floods and burst riverbanks suffered last spring throughout Europe have highlighted once again the importance of having the right equipment at the right time. In Germany and more recently in Spain, Case equipment is said to have been indispensable during recovery work in flood-damaged areas. During June, roads, bridges, homes and forest trails in many urban areas were affected by the heavy rain that led to flooding throughout northern Spain’s entire Aran Valley (Lleida), and the overflowing of the Ga

More than 300 invited customers and guests attended the grand opening of Liebherr’s new sales and service centre in Miami, Florida. The new state-of-the-art facility will serve as a major hub for Liebherr’s maritime cranes division and will further strengthen business relations with Central and South America and the Caribbean region.

Hyundai Heavy Industries has unveiled its new 15tonne class HL757-9A wheeled loader. Boasting a standard shovel volume of 2.7m³ and 15tonne operating weight and offered in three versions, the standard HL757-9A model has a 2.84m dumping height and a maximum reach of 1.61m. The HL757XTD-9A High Reach model version has a 3.23m dumping height and a reach of up to 1.97m. And the HL757TM-9A (ToolMaster) model with parallel mast comes with a tipping height of up to 2.84m and a top reach of 1.81m. This mast may

Quarry firm Blue Mountain Minerals is improving output quality and productivity following the installation of a new CEMCO crusher. The facility is located in the Sierra Nevada foothills in Northern California, around two hours’ drive to the south east of Sacramento. This quarry has been providing customers in California with a variety of limestone and dolomite products for more than 150 years. Blue Mountain is the largest producer of limestone products in northern California and provides quality materia

A motorcyclist in the US made a rather foolish error when showing off his wheelie skills. The car in front stopped and as the rider had being paying insufficient attention to the road ahead he rammed straight into the rear of the vehicle. Worse still, the car was a police vehicle and its occupants were none too impressed with the rider’s behaviour, booking him immediately for the offence even as he lay sprawled on the ground recovering from the impact.

A 70 year-old driver from New York in the US has clocked record distances in his 1966 vintage Volvo. Owned from new the Volvo P1800 has clocked an incredible 4.8 million km (3 million miles). The man is an enthusiastic driver covering anything from 96,000-160,000km/year (60,000-100,000 miles/year) and not only in the US, but also in Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK.

A moped rider in the US state of South Carolina was the victim of a rather unusual attack. He was riding the vehicle when another man pushed him off the moped. As the victim fell to the ground, the attacker then grabbed the victim’s prosthetic leg and used this as a weapon with which to continue the assault. The attacker was arrested and charged for the assault although the reason for the incident has not been revealed.

A Canadian man in Alberta is thought to have set a world record for the flimsiest excuse for speeding. Canadian Mounties spotted the man driving at 180km/h and when they managed to stop him, he explained he was in the process of drying his car, as it had been washed shortly beforehand. His driving licence was suspended for 45 days while he was fined C$800.

A fully functioning submarine car has been offered for sale. The car, which features the composite bodywork from a Lotus Esprit, was built for the 1977 James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me. The car is said to have cost $100,000 to convert into a submarine with the work being carried out by a specialist company in Florida and was used in extended underwater sequences in the film. After the film was made the car submarine was put into storage and forgotten about, with the contents of the storage unit then be