Recycling

As Europe’s motorcycle racing season gets underway this year, Trimble employees will be avidly following the competitions at one venue in particular – Italy’s Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli. A Trimble solution recently helped to efficiently reconstruct the racing surface at Misano, about 14km south-east of the Italian city of Rimini on the eastern Adriatic coast. Since 1991, the racetrack has hosted the World Superbike Championship and, since 2007, the San Marino and Rimini's Coast motorcycle Gran

An Austrian firm is recycling road materials using mobile machines supplied by Rockster. The R900 and RSS49 units are being used by Austrian specialist Neuberger to recycle materials from an array of construction and demolition sources. The products are then used in an array of applications including road base materials, earthworks and slope construction. The family-owned firm runs a large gravel pit in Ehrwald and uses its Rockster RSS49 scalping screen RSS49 for recycling construction waste and RAP. The f

One of the first Wirtgen W 200 Hi cold milling machines off the assembly line is now being used for road recyling work in southern Europe. The versatility of the machine due to its novel 400mm offset drum capability has proven extremely useful for the contractor in Italy. Tuscany–based Endi Asfalti is now using the large and highly productive W 200 Hi for a wide range of milling jobs that would previously have been carried out using a combination of large and small milling machines. The proven W 200 milling

Proven polyester bridge deck surfacing technology is now being used more widely – Mike Woof writes. The benefits of using polymer concrete bridge deck overlays are well known and this technology is becoming widely used in the US. The system can improve protection for bridge surfaces and help extend the life of a bridge deck, as well as increasing skid resistance. In the last 25 years the use of these overlays has increased significantly in the US. These perform best when installed on bridge decks that are i

LiuGong unveiled new machines as well as its plans for the future at the BICES 2015 construction equipment show in Beijing recently. Trading conditions are tough in China at the moment, but LiuGong is performing better financially than many of its local rivals according to the firm. LiuGong’s vice-president, Dave Beatenbough said that the firm is particularly well known for its wheeled loaders, a product line for which the firm is a market leader in China. However, he explained that the company is actively

An asphalt paving trial at Rome Airport tested mat quality with and without the use of MTVs Rome’s airport Fiumicino or the Leonardo da Vinci Airport of Rome is one of Europe’s busiest airports and lies 25.6km southwest of the city, a 30-minute train ride away.