Bridgestone India appoints Hiroshi Yoshizane as MD

Bridgestone is a global leader in tyres and rubber

Bridgestone’s Pune plant is verified carbon neutral

Bridgestone India’s plant at Chakan in Pune district has been verified as being carbon neutral for the year 2022.

Bridgestone’s Pune plant is verified carbon neutral

Audited and verified as carbon neutral by LRQA

Focus on Sustainable Road Construction

Wirtgen Group anticipates a continuous increase in the number of sustainable machine and technology solutions by 2026.

Crushing it!

With an increase in mining activities and infrastructure development in India, the demand for crushing and screening equipment will also rise.

Road Equipment: Road to Recovery

The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has big plans of constructing expressways, national highways, state highways and rural roads in the coming years. However, any uncertain economic situation in future may affect the recovery of the market as this will affect the payment of contractors, financing and thus equipment mobilisation.

Crushers & Screens: Gaining Momentum?

The growing aggregate requirements in the infrastructure projects and the improving mineral mining activities in the country demand crushers and screens in large numbers. But with some roadblocks pose as challenges in this positive scenario, can the crusher segment gather momentum

Ardent Infra joins hands with KCC Buildcon for asphalt production

Ardent Infra Equipments strengthened its presence in India with collaborating with the Haryana based KCC Buildcon

We will continue to innovate and expand: Ramesh Palagiri

Ramesh Palagiri, Managing Director & CEO, Wirtgen India, speaks on the market opportunities

Ardent partners with Strassmayr to cater roads sector worldwide

Ardent Maschinfabrik has collaborated with Strassmayr, a European producer of road repairing and maintenance machines, having worldwide network of local distributors in over 60 countries.

Ardent partners with Strassmayr to cater roads sector worldwide

Ardent Maschinfabrik has collaborated with Strassmayr, a European producer of road repairing and maintenance machines, having worldwide network of local distributors in over 60 countries.

Wirtgen inaugurates machine finishing facility at Pune plant

Wirtgen India opened a state-of-the-art machine finishing facility at its Pune plant. Domenic Ruccolo, Chairman and CEO, Wirtgen Group, and Ramesh Palagiri, Managing Director and CEO, Wirtgen India inaugurated the plant in the presence of customers, vendors and business partners.

Wirtgen inaugurates machine finishing facility at Pune plant

Wirtgen India opened a state-of-the-art machine finishing facility at its Pune plant.

Wirtgen Group celebrates 25 years of success in India

The Wirtgen Group is celebrating its successful presence of "25 years in India". We would continue supporting our customers with the most innovative solutions and technologies in the road building and road rehabilitation, and mineral technologies in the construction equipment segment.

Our growth is in double digits

AxleTech is a manufacturer of axles to speciality applications in off-highway and defence segments.

We plan to invest Close ?40 million in India

Schaeffler rolling bearings and plain bearings significantly contribute to the outstanding performance of a large variety of construction equipment worldwide. Harsha Kadam, Industrial President, Schaeffler India, shares more on the company's presence in India and future plans for the market.

Schaeffler India announces expansion of Pune operations

Schaeffler reiterated its focus on India as a key manufacturing hub by announcing the expansion of its operations at INA Bearings in Talegaon, Pune. The expansion will include a new manufacturing facility and a new R&D facility within the existing premises.

Safe Lifting solutions

An advanced new Hyosung manufacturing plant supplying critical components for India's electrical power distribution grid is using Konecranes lifting technology to help ensure outstanding safety, efficiency and reliability.

Konecranes Pune plant sets up rooftop solar facility

A company dedicated to producing environmentally friendly and energy-efficient lifting machinery, Konecranes has put its philosophy into action in its own manufacturing processes by converting one of its newest global plants to operate extensively on solar power.

Container Handling: Future?s Bright

SKF India opens rooftop solar plant at Pune

SKF India announced its solar mission with the inauguration of one of the largest rooftop solar installations among manufacturing companies in Pune

First Kleemann Screen Rolled Out in India

Wirtgen India rolled out the first Kleemann range screen from the newly inaugurated plant, and is set to launch a slew of products for the Indian market.

Integrated Load Handling Solutions

With a myriad of attachments, truck-mounted cranes have created niche applications segments with faster, safer and more productive solutions.Construction industry has been witnessing a shift towards using safer, more advanced technology, especially application-oriented equipment and machinery

500th Hamm 311 delivered to Dilip Buildcon

The 500th Hamm 311 soil compactor, manufactured at the Pune facility of Wirtgen Group, was recently handed over to Dilip Suryavanshi, Chairman and Managing Director

500th Hamm 311 Delivered to Dilip Buildcon

The 500th Hamm 311 soil compactor, manufactured at Pune production facility of Wirtgen Group, was recently handed over to Dilip Suryavanshi, Chairman & Managing Director of Dilip Buildcon, - a major player in the Infrastructure industry. Ramesh Palagiri ? Managing Director & CEO and K P Shetty, General Manager, Wirtgen India handed over the key to Suryavanshi at Buildcon?s Bhopal Office , in the presence of Devendra Jain , Director, Dilip Buildcon.

Our goal is to be among the top three in the global crushing and screening segment.

Views from P Ramesh, Managing Director & CEO, Wirtgen India: With market shares ranging from 20-70 per cent, Wirtgen Group is the world market leader in mobile road construction and road rehabilitation solution. The company has made it to the top primarily because of its continuous innovation to its product line as the average age of their machines is less than three years.

JCB to produce compaction units from Pune plant

The UK-based construction equipment maker JCB will relocate its compaction equipment production unit to India. The move is aimed at strengthening the company's foothold in emerging markets. According to the company, JCB has decided that, by the end of June 2014, production of all VM compactors and two larger VM tandem rollers will relocate to JCB?s factory in Pune.

Sai Infraa buys Potains 1001st Crane

Manitowoc?s Pune factory recently sold the 1001st Potain tower crane to Sai Infraaequipments.Manitowoc?s tower crane brand, Potain, has built more than 1,000 tower cranes at its manufacturing plant in Pune, India. Leading Indian rental company Sai Infraaequipments purchased the 1,001st crane and a handover ceremony was held in March to mark the occasion.

We want to become a concrete solution provider

As we are the market leaders in the small and medium concrete equipment, we maintain more than 50 per cent market share in the organised sector and since we are the latest entrant in the large concrete equipment sector

We expect our excavator business to grow by 70 per cent this year

Sany is always a customer-oriented organisation and we can proudly say that our machine is the best in industry in terms of quality, technology, reliability, quick response, faster diagnosis, higher productivity, more fuel efficiency,

Sandvik's drill from Pune

Sandvik Mining has rolled out its first 160D drill from its Pune plant. The 160D is a diesel-powered self-propelled crawler-mounted rotary blast hole drill built to adapt to the toughest operating environments in the world.

Raising the bar

As the Managing Director at Hyundai Construction Equipment India Pvt Ltd (HCEIL), Ki Young Kong is responsible for HCEIL?s operations.

Low fuel consumption, high productivity and lesser maintenance cost is Hyundai's USP

Hyundai excavators operate on CAPO (Computer Aided Power Optimisation) technology whi?ch offers better matching of hydraulic circuitry with engine torque curve,

Voltas opens new plant

The Rs 12-crore new state-of-the-art plant will initially manufacture diesel and electric forklift trucks.

Geared to Meet the Demands

Premier launches three high-technology CNC machines at IMTEX 2011.

CE Boom Heads East

Even as the American and European markets continue to languish after the global economic crisis, the world is looking towards the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) to lead the recovery.