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The summit of APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) taking place on Russky Island, close to Vladivostok, Russia, in 2012 has prompted a myriad of construction projects in the area. The massive construction site includes hotels and a conference centre, airport reconstruction, highway construction and reconstruction, an opera and ballet theatre, sea facade including port structures and infrastructure, and the Eastern Bosphorus Strait Bridge (see World report, World Highways November/December 2009), which w

A Tsurumi pump is still providing good service after 22 years in the fleet of Dutch rental firm Verno, which focusese on the construction market. The LB250 submersible model, for which production stopped over a decade ago, is thought to be the longest-serving Tsurumi pump in Europe. However, Verno, says that the unit's long service record is a product of its versatility, robust design and build quality

Geotechnical specialists, Bachy Soletanche and Carillion Piling are currently working on an £18 million (e21 million) geotechnical contract as part of carriageway improvements on the M1 motorway to the north of London, England. The work between junctions 10-13, Luton to Milton Keynes, is being carried out for the Costain Carillion joint venture working on behalf of the Highways Agency. The piling and soil nailing works are to facilitate the conversion of the current hard shoulder to a peak-time running lane

Paving operations in Perth, Western Australia, are being aided by Dynapac's productive and versatile F6-4W, which is paving links for new suburbs to meet the latest surge in population. The machine is working for specialist contractor BGC Asphalt and is laying roads in the remaining sub-divisions of Ridge Wood in Brighton, to the north of Perth.

UK-headquartered, global construction product specialist RMD Kwikform has been awarded the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2010.

UK firm Cartem is offering a new chippings spreader developed for use in highway construction and maintenance applications. This dedicated machine, the Spreadmaster, offers spreading widths of 300mm - 4.4m in standard configuration and has been designed and built at the company's facility in Leicester.

German quarrying firm Oetelshofen Kalk has cut noise emissions by half and tripled machine service life, by installing dual hardness rubber liners in its crushing plant. Based in Wuppertal, the Oetelshofen quarry company produces 2 million tonnes of limestone products/year, and has a turnover of €35 million/year.

SOKKIA has appointed HKL Baumaschinen in Germany to distribute its construction portfolio through its countrywide coverage. HKL, a large rental and sales organisation in Germany, is renting more than 30,000 construction machines. It "fits perfectly as an additional channel besides the existing Topcon and Sokkia distribution channels in Germany," said Frank Grunder, European sales manager

Four new Volvo L45F wheeled loaders have been supplied to Cambridgeshire County Council's highways department and deployed at four strategic depots throughout the county. The 8.5tonne wheeled loaders replace four outgoing 12-year-old loaders, and will primarily be handling and loading road gritters with rock salt during the winter months, rehandling used, crushed asphalt and other associated road laying materials as well as general yard duties. The machines have been allocated to Cambridgeshire Highway's de

The novel Tuff Curb system developed in the US offers a durable, high performance separator kerb product. The TuffCurb system can be used in conjunction with the range of spring-mounted posts and signs from Impact Recovery Systems. Highly versatile this kerbing system is said to be easy to install and can be used for curves, medians, edge lines, work zones and rail crossings.