Blue Energy Motors achieves significant milestone; decarbonises CV industry in India

This development highlights the reduction of over 2000 tonnes of CO2 emissions, equivalent to the work of 80,000 trees

We were the pioneers to introduce hydraulic presses in India

Soham Panchal, Director, OPEX, Neptune India, speaks on the various products and solutions offered by the company.

Fuelling the future

Backhoe loader manufacturers are developing hybrid or fully electric backhoe loaders, which significantly reduce or eliminate fuel consumption and emissions.

HIL announces Q4 and FY 2020-21 results

Consolidated EBITDA stood at Rs.114.8 crore despite strains faced due to second wave of COVID-19 in the domestic as well as the overseas market

Light at the End of the Tunnel

Tunnels seem to be coming up in metropolitan and remote areas alike, so TBMs and other equipment should be in demand. How is the industry gearing up?

Green Technology for Indian Roads

The Ghaziabad-based JRD Infratech is using an Ammann ACC 90 CounterMix asphalt-mixing plant in their project to meet the guidelines of the National Green Tribunal and Central Pollution Control Board

Towards Greener Future

Asphalt is regaining traction in the Indian road construction due to its better recyclability and the freedom to use waste materials like plastics along with asphalt mix. The future looks greener for asphalt mixing plants.

We are displaying automatic handling systems this year

Columbia Machine Engineering, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Columbia Machine Inc, USA, specialises in the manufacture and supply of concrete product solutions to a variety of industries in India and several countries throughout Asia and Africa.

Infrastructure push drives CE demand

With the government is pushing for more infrastructure development in the country, construction equipment market will see demand growth in future.

CE industry remains bullish on long-term prospects

In today's scenario of globalisation, it is important that the buyers put weightage on value for their money and hence prefer quality equipment with advanced technology and customisation.

Cold Milling Machines

Similar to developed nations, pavement milling or cold milling or cold planning of asphalt topped pavements is fast going to become a necessity in India, considering the volumes of crushed, screened, sized and shaped aggregates required for the upcoming roads and infrastructure projects, in the country.

Asphalt Recycling

Millions of tonnes of asphalt have being wasted in the country, when these could be properly treated and recycled for rehabilitation of road projects and new pavements.

We are at the forefront of developing new green technologies.

We have invested even in this lean period and have built our capacities for the long period of sustained growth, says Kennady V Kaipally, Country Manager, Mobile & Wind Solutions, Bonfiglioli Transmissions. Excerpts from the interview

Eaton develops solutions that drive sustainable growth around the globe.

At Eaton, our singular focus is on helping customers manage power more efficiently, reliably and safely. We see more electronic controls making their way into hydraulic solutions. The objective here is to make hydraulics smarter than ever through increased automation.

Safety is a major issue in crawlers segment

Ajay Kumar Somani, Director-Mobile Crane Division, Liebherr India: We have redesigned our cranes drastically to increase its capacity without any change in basic machine. We have also come out with ?P? boom in 1,000T and 1,350T capacity cranes, new boom configuration like SL 10 in our 600T cranes.

Tata Motors will continue to develop new products and upgrade its existing ones.

At Tata Motors, we strive to enhance our customers? experience, offering the unmatched benefit of a Tata truck, with best lifecycle cost, longer service runs and enhanced levels of driver comfort, resulting in best-in-class profitability and lowest payback period for operators, says Vinod Sahay, Head (Sales and Marketing), Medium and Heavy Commercial Vehicles, Tata Motors. Excerpts of the interview.

The Ecopack series is contemporary and suitable for various market segments.

Cooper is always ahead of its times in adopting the latest technology and setting a benchmark for others. Prompt market support makes our clients prefer us, says Farrokh Cooper, Chairman and Managing Director, Cooper Corporation. Excerpts from the interview.

ECOSIZE enthuses visitors in Doha

Ecotherm presented the first version of its self-developed design software, ECOSIZE, at the Project Qatar in Doha. After more than 1.5 years of development Ecotherm presented the first version of this software to the professional audience.

Energy efficiency should be user-driven

Bucher Hydraulics is working glo?bally on three or four factors, to improve the safety, reliability, ene?rgy efficiency and overall lifecycle cost of the equipment. These are the main criteria in which direction Bucher Hydraulics R&D is working,

Bonfiglioli's commitment to the green economy is a strategic choice

Bonfiglioli has developed a range of mechatronic solutions for new generation of hybrid vehicles capable of integrating electric power with mechanical transmissions.

Our machines come with various features which help enable human safety

The machines which are produced and sold here in India from Europe conform to Tier 4 norms. Also, some of the techniques we use in our foundation technology are non-polluting.

MAIT has been at the forefront in adopting green technology

The real challenge before us as a country is the availability of low sulphur fuel that determines the emission of a particular engine,

Ramky Creates World Record

The Marini MAC 200, plant installed at Ramky?s NAM project site, produced over 4,000 tonne of high quality asphalt mix in a little less than 21 hours, creating a historical landmark and rewriting its own historical benchmarks.

Breaking Records

Schwing Stetter unveils 19 new products at Excon cater to the changing need in concreting methods, demand for speeding of construction activities, increased awareness of safety and green technology.

We stay committed to delivering solutions for the economical & technical challenges.

?The global change in environment and economy is now forcing us to look at sustainable development. Unless road-building professionals don?t go green, they will not be able to survive. We are excited to find that more and more professional road building companies are showing deep interest in producing high content RAP

It is essential that we have more constructive codes and specs

All Soilmec rigs and equipment are fitted with the latest inbuilt features, such as maintenance alert, warning systems, work mode selection, electronic controllers, monitor display, amongst other standard safety features, says Sanjoy Chakrabarty, MD, Soilmec India.

Marking 50 years of dedication

MBK Maschinenbau GmbH, a leading player in the field of cages and mesh machines, is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

We hope to double our size in the next three years

Our manufacturing range includes around 15,000 products and we would be making avaiable a minimum of 33 per cent of the above range to our channel partners,? says Nishant Vora, Director, ZWZ Bearings India. 0 - - 13801 14 187 2011-02-01 00:00:00.000 Equipment India Designed for harsh environments

Fluke introduces ScopeMeter 190 series II portable oscilloscopes engineered for harsh industrial environments.

Fluke Corporation, the global leader in portable electronic test and measurement technology, has introduced the Fluke ScopeMeter 190 Series II handheld portable oscilloscopes, the first four-channel scopes designed for harsh industrial environments. These new portable scopes are the first safety rated scopes for CAT III 1000 V/CAT IV 600 V environments. The four input channels are completely isolated from each other to perform differential floating measurements, a critical consideration for troubleshooting fixed-installation three-phase power electronic devices like variable speed motor drives.

The Fluke ScopeMeter chassis is sealed from the environment with no cooling slots or fans to expose the instrument. It carries the International Protection (IP) -51 dust and drip proof rating so it?s tough enough to use safely on the factory floor and in the field. While most high-performance oscilloscopes are not designed to withstand dirty and harsh environments, the Fluke ScopeMeter is built tough to deliver accurate results where ordinary portable oscilloscopes dare not go.

The Fluke 190 series II oscilloscope meets the growing need for four-channel portable oscilloscopes in industrial environments. Power electronics are used increasingly in solar and wind energy generation and to maximise efficiency or reduce power consumption especially in heavy-duty electro-mechanical applications. With the new Fluke 190 Series II ScopeMeter, users can see more and fix more using all four channels.

Their fast sampling rate, up to 2.5 GS/sec and 400 picosecond resolution, helps users capture electrical noise and other disturbances to diagnose exactly what is going on. With 100 MHz and 200 MHz models, they deliver the bandwidth needed to cover both today?s needs, and tomorrow?s. With four channels, users can inspect input signals, output signals, feedback loops, or safety interlocks simultaneously to solve problems like:

? Signal amplitude or shape variations, induced noise or disturbances across critical circuit nodes.
? Signal timing measurements and synchronisation issues.
? Attenuation, fluctuation, drift as a result of impedance issues or environmental impacts.

Four channels are indispensable in testing variable speed motor drives and inverter power electronic technology used in green energy generation and transportation applications.

Users can:

? View and measure harmonics, transients, and loads in three-phase power systems.
? Troubleshoot DC to AC converters for faulty insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) and control circuits.
? View and measure pulse width modulated waveforms (PWM) for reflections and transients.

These new test tools are convenient and user-friendly. New, high-performance Li-Ion battery technology keeps the Series II ScopeMeter on the job for up to seven hours. An external charger and easy-access battery door makes it simple to swap batteries and extend usage. Two USB ports, electrically isolated from measurement input circuits, make it easy to capture and share waveforms. Users can conveniently store data to a USB memory device or easily connect to a PC via the USB port and transfer waveforms or screen images for data analysis or archive.

Construction , Update , Portal , Magazine , February , Equipment India , 2011 , India , Fluke Corporation , ScopeMeter , portable oscilloscopes , safety , measurement , technology , troubleshooting , International Protection , green energy , inverter , IGBTs , PWM , Li-Ion battery , USB , waveform 0 2011-03-02 15:02:38.487 22 Fluke introduces ScopeMeter 190 series II portable oscilloscopes engineered for harsh industrial environments. 0 - - 13802 14 95 2011-02-01 00:00:00.000 Equipment India Entrepreneur Award to A Sundaresan

Anand Sundaresan, Managing Director, Schwing Stetter India has been honored with ?Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards 2010 India?Outstanding Entrepreneurship Award? for outstanding tenacity, perseverance and courage in the business. The award was presented to Sundaresan by Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Member of Parliament on the evening of 20 November 2010 at Hyatt Regency, Delhi. Sundaresan, said ?It is indeed a very big honour to receive the Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards 2010 India?Outstanding Entrepreneurship Award. I am absolutely delighted, and would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the jury for conferring this very prestigious award upon me.?

The award was presented by Enterprise Asia, a non-governmental organisation for entrepreneurship. The prestigious Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards are world-class awards recognising and honoring business leaders who have shown outstanding performance and tenacity in developing successful businesses within the region. Organised by Enterprise Asia and supported by local governments and businesses, the awards aim to band leading entrepreneurs across the region to spur greater innovation, fair practices and growth in entrepreneurship. It hopes to be a platform to encourage continued leadership towards sustainable economic development for the region. These awards were presented to the most recognised and established entrepreneurs in the country. The Award ceremony was attended by over 500 top-notch people from across the globe.

Construction , Update , Portal , Magazine , Equipment India , February , 2011 , India , Anand Sundaresan , Schwing Stetter India , Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards 2010 , Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi , Hyatt Regency , Delhi , Outstanding Entrepreneurship Award , Enterprise Asia , economic development , entrepreneurs 0 2011-03-02 15:11:09.013 22 Anand Sundaresan, Managing Director, Schwing Stetter India has been honored with ?Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards 2010 India?Outstanding Entrepreneurship Award? for outstanding tenacity, perseverance and courage in the business. 0 - - 13803 14 95 2011-02-01 00:00:00.000 Equipment India HEC bags Rs 306 cr Draglines order

Heavy Engineering Corporation has secured an order for the supply and commissioning of two numbers of draglines (24 cu m/88 m) valued at Rs 306 crore from Northern Coalfields. Earlier in September 2009, HEC bagged an order for one dragline from NCL against stiff global competition. The manufacturing progress was impressive and supply ahead in schedule helped early beginning of erection work. The machines are to be supplied in 20 and 32 months respectively and commissioned in 18 months subsequently at Amlori Project of NCL. HEC is the first Indian company to manufacture the heaviest machine on the earth that walks?dragline with 24 cu m bucket capacity and 96 m long boom. The machines have a state-of-the-art control system.

Construction , Update , Portal , Magazine , Equipment India , February , 2011 , India , Heavy Engineering Corporation , Northern Coalfields , erection , Amlori Project 0 2011-03-02 15:16:17.463 22 Heavy Engineering Corporation has secured an order for the supply and commissioning of two numbers of draglines (24 cu m/88 m) valued at Rs 306 crore from Northern Coalfields. 0 - - 13804 14 96 2011-02-01 00:00:00.000 Equipment India Liebherr delivers second heavy-lift crane

Recently, the second unit of the 1.600 t heavy lift offshore crane MTC 78000 was delivered from its manufacturing plant in Rostock, by Liebherr. Despite its size, the MTC 78000 has been designed as a slewing crane and is supported by traditional large-diameter anti-friction bearings. With a weight of 70 t, the swing ring has a diameter of approximately 9 m. The manufacturing of such large mechanical parts can only be accomplished through complicated custom processes like conventional gear cutting machines which are only available for large-diameter anti-friction bearings up to a diameter of 5 m. Therefore, Liebherr has acquired correspondingly sized machines and equipment specifically for the mechanical machining of these flanges. The assembly of the MTC 78000 required several spectacular heavy duty lifts. First, the slewing platform was mounted?at 370 t, the heaviest of the components. Thereafter, the machinery compartment with the drive components (approximately 240 t), the mast lower section (about 250 t) and the mast upper section (around 160 t) of which the lowest point needed to be hoisted up to over 43 m above the pier level. This hoisting height was made possible by equipping the mobile harbour cranes with two corresponding tower extensions. The MTC 78000 is one of the biggest offshore slewing cranes worldwide. With a maximum dynamic torque of 78,000 mt, the MTC 78000 is the most powerful machine within the extensive range of cranes and material handling machines offered by the Liebherr group of companies. Four units of the new heavy-lift crane have already been ordered to date.

Construction , Update , Portal , Magazine , Equipment India , February , 2011 , India , offshore crane , Rostock , Liebherr , bearings , slewing , harbour cranes 0 2011-03-02 15:21:58.690 22 Recently, the second unit of the 1.600 t heavy lift offshore crane MTC 78000 was delivered from its manufacturing plant in Rostock, by Liebherr. 0 - - 13805 14 96 2011-02-01 00:00:00.000 Equipment India New Cat Track harvester cab The Cat 501/501HD track harvesters have new cabs with significant improvements to the ergonomics and other features that customers have asked for, including better airflow, a more comfortable seat and improved night visibility. In today's market, operators are being asked to work longer hours, so we are giving them an exceptionally comfortable and functional work environment," said Glenn Brown, Track Harvester and Forwarder Product Specialist for Caterpillar Forest Products. "In re-designing the cab, however, we didn't change the industry-leading visibility these harvesters are known for." The new air suspension seat absorbs shocks and provides added comfort during extended shifts. The seat has a reinforced structure designed for track machines to absorb the added shock loads. Lumbar support armrests and neckrests are adjustable. The AC/heater system's capacity has been increased for effective cooling and heating. Set-it-and-forget-it automatic control maintains a consistent cab temperature. Airflow is channeled through louvered vents to all areas, including windows for defrosting and defogging. In summer, cool air circulates around the operator and in winter, the heat extends to the floor to keep the operator's feet warm.