Products

Taiwan-based Aplus Molds & Plastics is showing its new A+MP Plastic Guide Rail. The innovative, low-weight plastic design reduces purchase and transportation costs, while offering long working life. Different versions of the range are available to suit varying protection requirements and the products offer further safety benefits due to optional high conspicuity features. The Road Warning safety Plastic Guide Rail can be used on roads around the globe. This Plastic Guide Rail differs from conventional Jers

Pexco (Davidson Traffic Control Products) is offering the new City Post high-performance channeliser product. According to the firm, the “ultra high-performance” post features a sleek profile and quick “spin-in” deployment. The all-polyurethane post features quick rebound when impacted and is designed for deployment in high-speed, high-impact locations such as toll plazas and HOT lanes, as well as low-speed urban locations. Severe endurance testing at the Texas Transportation Institute resulted in all posts

Italian specialist INDUSTRY AMS has developed a range of modular redirective crash cushions. The firm’s Safety Modular Absorber (SMA) models are available in different specifications to suit varying applications. The company claims that its novel SMA crash cushions are the most compact absorbers available on the market and these units meet the European safety requirements of the EN 1317-3 standard.

Enaikoon, one of the leading telematics service providers in the world, has joined forces with electronic engineers AM Bromley. The announcement was made on the Rema Tip Top stand during the recent bauma 2013 show. During what is the world’s biggest construction equipment event, Rema Tip Top showcased AM Bromley’s proven OTR tyre monitoring system (TMS) and Enaikoon’s powerful tracking system.

LiuGong Machinery Europe and Construction Plant & Machinery Sales (CPMS) have signed an official dealership agreement authorising CPMS to provide sales and after-sales support in southern England for the entire LiuGong portfolio. Established more than 40 years ago, CPMS has its own repair workshop, parts warehouse and experienced mechanics to provide support and routine maintenance to its customer base. The company also has a depot in London to cater for customers in the greater London area. “We are delight

StarTraq says the implementation of its browser-based road traffic offence processing software has been completed within the Land Transport Authority (LTA) of Fiji. Through the use of StarTraq Dome, the Fijian LTA is said to have installed the required infrastructure to process high volumes of offences promptly, efficiently and at a reduced cost.

SKF Insight features intelligent wireless technology that enables bearings to communicate their operating conditions continuously, with internally powered sensors and data acquisition electronics. Bearings have long been considered the heart of rotating machinery but now SKF has made them the brain as well.

During bauma 2013, Doug Oberhelman, chairman & CEO of Caterpillar, presented Sten Antonsen, the first Cat customer worldwide to place an order for the company’s new 336E H hydraulic hybrid excavator, with a miniature model of the machine. The order was placed in October 2012, just two days after the press release announcing this new product introduction had been issued and at a time when pricing was not yet available. Antonsen placed a second order for another 336E H unit in January 2013.

L-Lynch Plant Hire has purchased 12 Terex TA300s as part of the UK-based company’s €14.06million (£12mn) investment in new equipment. The articulated trucks were sold by Terex UK distributor, TDL Equipment, and will be used by Lynch’s customers on mainly civil and tunnelling projects. Merrill Lynch, Lynch’s operations director, said that the strengthening of his plant fleet fits with the company’s goal of becoming the number one plant hire service provider in the UK.

Metso ES is the Finnish firm’s new, robustly designed, high-energy, elliptical motion horizontal screen. The new screen is said to provide increased uptime and safer maintenance, while delivering up to 25% more screening capacity compared to a conventional screen of matching size. The two unbalanced shaft lines in the Metso ES rotate in opposite directions, generating a high-energy, elliptical motion with a self-synchronisation design. The new screen is said to be an innovative solution, performing brillian

Work has started on repairing an important road near Silloth in Cumbria, North West England to save it from coastal erosion. The scheme, on the B5300 Maryport to Silloth road, will see a 280m length of rock armour constructed to protect the sand and gravel bank on which the road runs at Castle Corner between Mawbray and Beckfoot. Costing €385,942 (£320,000), the work being carried out by Cumbria County Council’s in-house highways team follows approval from the Council’s cabinet to fund a new sea defence bui

Highway degradation and surface water pollution in an environmentally sensitive area of the Scottish Cairngorms Mountains, famous for its whisky production, are said to have been tackled with an innovative SuDS Solution from Hydro International. Poor drainage, flooding and freezing weather had led to a landslip and extreme surface degradation along a section of the narrow A95 that descends on a 10% gradient with tight bends to the beautiful village of Craigellachie on the River Spey, near Elgin. Situated im

Metso is to rebuild a complete crushing and screening plant for aggregates producer Sablières Malet in Southern France. The new near €8 million plant will replace an old plant destroyed by fire in 2012. When completed, the plant will be able to produce up to 850tonnes/hour. The new facility will be fed by trains from different deposits. The feeding capacity will be 1,200tonnes/hour and it will produce different sized aggregates for road and concrete. The supply consists of a complete plant including cone cr

Wopfinger Transportbeton’s investment in a new sand washing plant at their Eggendorf site in Lower Austria is said to have resulted in a 60% increase in gravel production - from 135tonnes/hour to 220 tonnes/hour. Before the new Evowash sand washing plant was installed, Wopfinger were working two shifts at Eggendorf to meet the capacity requirements of the ready mix concrete plant located at the sand and gravel pit. This has now been reduced to one shift as a result of both the quality and quantity of the wa