All Excavators Articles

Green ambition: The drive towards environmentally-friendly excavators
Excavator manufacturers are investigating technologies to improve environmental performance. Becca Wilkins reports on current and future ‘green' strategies.
Kobelco to build Indian factory
Production of 20-tonne class crawler excavators to start in January 2011.
Hitachi boosts power on new 1.6/1.8 t mini excavators
Hitachi is strengthening its range of mini excavators with the European launch of 1.6 and 1.8 t models, the Zaxis ZX16-3 and ZX18-3.
Komatsu targets China with hybrid excavator
Production capacity up to 100 hybrids per month as Komatsu launches new machine in China and eyes the US.
JCB fleet for Brazilian water scheme
Sixteen JCB excavators are playing a pivotal role in helping irrigate and improve residential water supplies to an arid part of North East Brazil.
Bobcat to cease manufacturing in Bismark
Production to move to Gwinner factory, but office jobs will remain.
Army requirements drive new ‘multifunction’ design
Patented 4-piece boom design could be useful in civilian as well as military applications.
Terex launches compact equipment rental initiative in North America
Terex Corp has launched an initiative in North America to promote its compact range of equipment to rental companies and to prepare renters for an upswing in construction.
Channel Island renter invests in Bobcat
Channel Island rental company 4Hire continues to invest in its rental fleet, adding a further two Bobcat excavators to a fleet that already includes 13 Bobcat excavators and a Bobcat telehandler.
Design accolade for Doosan
Doosan Infracore's futuristic CX excavator concept has won the ‘Best of the Best Award' at the 2009 Reddot Design Awards.
A brace of high reaches from Liebherr
Two new high reach excavators have joined the Liebherr range with the introduction of the 34 m reach R 954 C and the 41 m reach R974 VH-HD
Quiet efficiency from New Holland's iNDr
New Holland’s iNDr cooling system is proving invaluable to contractors working on urban projects and other environmentally sensitive areas.
About the Rock Hawg
Tesmec makes a range of carriers for trenching a rock excavation and they are available with rocksaw, chainsaw, bucket or Rock Hawg attachments.
VIDEO: Excavation revelation
A Tesmec ‘Rock Hawg’ mechanical rock excavator made short work of digging a new haul road ramp at Lafarge’s Whitwell quarry in the UK. In fact it was so impressive that the company is hoping to use a larger model for high-volume extraction in sensitive areas. Chris Sleight reports.
JCBs dig second Tyne Tunnel in UK
Two purpose-built JCB tracked excavators with unique boom and dipper configurations are carrying out specialist groundwork on the new Tyne Tunnel project in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
Caterpillar machines dig in the desert
A fleet of more than 100 Caterpillar machines is moving 20000 m³ of sand every day to build the world's largest fully integrated Aquaculture project in the Saudi Arabian desert.
Bobcat adds 3 tonne minis
New from Bobcat are the 3 tonne E32 conventional tail swing and E35 zero tail swing mini-excavators
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