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Mastering Hydraulic Hose Selection

Choosing the right hydraulic hoses is critical for system performance and safety. This article offers essential insights into hose selection, covering factors like pressure ratings, diameters, materials, and safety considerations, ensuring optimal functionality and risk mitigation.

The Future is Electric!

Epiroc is building an energy efficiency culture resulting in lower CO2 emissions and more efficient use of resources

Our products are future ready

Amit Bansal, Director Sales & Marketing-BCP Division, Caterpillar India

Cummins to showcase future emission-ready power solutions portfolio at Excon

Set to showcase next-generation, future emission-ready, Legend L10 and M15 engines

We plan to exhibit our new Smart+Excavators

Rajiv Chaturvedi, Vice President – Sales and Marketing, After sales and Parts, Hyundai Construction Equipment India

The New Concrete Frontier

Contractors must adopt advanced, efficient concrete equipment to meet growing project sizes, tight deadlines, and high-strength concrete demands.

Selecting the right hydraulic hose

Hoses typically become heavier for any given length, with added layers of reinforcing wire, as the working pressure requirement increases.

The Mining Boom

India's increasing coal projects drive a surge in mining equipment demand!

Gmmco: A one-stop solution provider

Customers look to Gmmco to offer complete solutions be it new equipment, used equipment, rental, buyback, tailor-made product support solutions, etc.

The Future is Electric!

Epiroc is building an energy efficiency culture resulting in lower CO2 emissions and more efficient use of resources.

Caterpillar’s digital-enabled solutions

Caterpillar Inc., the world’s largest manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, showcased its world-class products equipped with advanced technology and digital-enabled service solutions at bauma CONEXPO INDIA.

Komatsu India committed to a future of sustainable growth

The company is targeting to be carbon-neutral by 2050

Caterpillar unveils its largest ConExpo booth ever

More than 30 latest model and prototype machines will be on display.

Caterpillar’s digital-enabled solutions at bauma

Caterpillar exhibit featured a technology ecosystem to help customers get the most from their machines.

Komatsu India committed to a future of sustainable growth

Komatsu is targeting to be carbon-neutral by 2050

Coal continues to be the major demand driver in mining

Arvind K Garg, Senior Vice President and Head, L&T Construction and Mining Machinery, speaks on the construction and mining equipment market in India.

The next 10 years will be an important period for mining in India

Karthik Bala, Mining Regional Manager, Resource Industries Sales, Services and Technology, Caterpillar India, speaks on the company’s technological offerings for the mining segment.

CEMCO celebrates 60th anniversary

CEMCO Inc., an industry leader in manufacturing portable and stationary VSI crushing systems, celebrates its 60th anniversary.

Reducing inventory of lubricants

To consolidate and organise the inventory, the first and foremost step is to conduct a lube or lubricant survey.

B&B to showcase its innovation at IMHX

IMHX will open for business at the NEC, Birmingham, on September 6-8, 2022

CEMCO celebrates its 60th anniversary

Jennifer Hise-Trujillo is named company's new president

Reducing inventory of lubricants

Consolidation of lubricants in any organisation would provide many benefits that include savings in cost, minimizing the risk of cross-contamination, and mainly prevention of expensive machine failures.

Gmmco: A one-stop solution provider

Established in 1967, Gmmco is part of the $2.8 billion diversified CK Birla Group. Gmmco is a priority Caterpillar dealer for south, central and western India selling mining, construction and energy equipment to customers including CIL, SCCL, and other state-owned enterprises. Gmmco offers a one-stop solution shop for all industrial requirements.

Gmmco: A one-stop solution provider

Gmmco, a part of the $2.8 billion diversified CK Birla Group, has a wide portfolio of construction equipment, including excavators, loaders, motor graders and off-highway trucks. Proven technological leadership, superior build quality, optimum costs and an efficient service network make Caterpillar equipment stand apart from competitors.

What’s Your C-sat Score?

C-SAT is a commonly used metric that acts as a key performance indicator for customer service and product quality in all kinds of businesses. C-SAT is short for customer satisfaction score.

Counting on diggers

Increasing demand for construction and infrastructure activities is anticipated to augment earthmoving equipment market growth in India over the next few years.

Landomus to invest $500 billion in Indian infra projects

Landomus Realty Ventures Inc gave a proposal to invest $500 billion into the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) of India as a part of its Build India initiative.

Haver & Boecker Niagara offers Pulse Vibration Analysis Service

Haver & Boecker Niagara’s new Pulse Vibration Analysis Service program helps operations achieve production targets and minimise unscheduled downtime

There is a demand surge for crushers in the iron ore segment: Ranjit Ravindran

While the demand for newer machines is not that bullish the existing population of machines is fully optimised to undertake current developmental activities in mining and infrastructure. Ranjit Ravindran, Business Head – Mining, Voltas, shares more on the market dynamics.

Haver & Boecker Niagara introduces performance check tool

Haver & Boecker Niagara, Haver & Boecker?s new mineral processing brand, introduced PROcheck, a service program dedicated to keeping customers? operations running at peak performance.

Haver & Boecker Niagara introduces performance check tool

Haver & Boecker Niagara, Haver & Boecker?s new mineral processing brand, introduced PROcheck, a service program dedicated to keeping customers? operations running at peak performance.

4th IPF Industrial Excellence Awards

The recent awards ceremony in Mumbai lauded 19 SMEs from 16 cities.In its 48th year, IPF, India's largest circulated industrial magazine, hosted its 4th IPF Industrial Excellence Awards in Mumbai during which 19 SMEs from 16 Indian cities were honoured for their achievements during the year.

Tough demolition job

Genie telescopic boom lift is working at demolition job of the refurbishment of the Dom-Hotel in Cologne.

CRUSHING BARRIERS

Fragmented aggregate mining, as well as issues related to regulations and liquidity, are threatening the growth of the crushing and screening equipment segment in India.

Recharge to Rebuild!

The manifesto of the NDA points towards building 12,000 km of roads per annum! In 2018-19, even though contracts awarded were to the tune of 15,000 km (against 17,055 km in 2017-18), the figure for roads constructed up to November 2018 has been 5,759 km (against 9,829 km in 2017-18).

Manitowoc pledges to help reconstruct Notre-Dame

Following the fire that caused large-scale damage to Notre-Dame de Paris, Potain ? Manitowoc?s manufacturer of tower cranes ? has pledged to support reconstruction efforts of the historic French cathedral.

Improving Transport Network

Road contractor PT Sapta Unggul is relying on an ABG5820 paver from Volvo CE to make the roads safer and more accessible in Palu, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Since 2016, the ABG5820 has paved 124 km of roads in the region.

JCB India supports Kerala with Rs 10 million relief package

JCB India Limited made an employee contribution of Rs 2.8 million for relief and rebuilding work in Kerala. The cheque made in favour of the Kerala Chief Minister?s Distress Relief Fund was handed over to EP Jayarajan, Minister for Industries and Sports, Kerala by the JCB India team. This is in addition to the 30 JCB machines which have already been deployed in the districts of Palakkad, Malappuram, Ernakulam and Alappuzha and are helping the local administration with the rebuilding of public in

Manitowoc showcases two Potain self-erecting cranes at Intermasz 2018

Manitowoc has displayed a Potain Igo 32 and Igo M 14 at Intermasz 2018, a construction trade show that took place between 30 January and 2 February in Poznan, Poland. The Igo 32 was exhibited outdoors in the Manitowoc area, and the smaller Igo M 14 was shown indoors.

MAKING mining smooth

Equipment downtime cannot afford in mining operations as in most cases, mining sites are in remotest of locations and it may consume a lot of time in maintenance of the equipment.

Demolish and rebuild with MB drum cutter

This is a story of demolition and of construction. Or, as in the best fairy tales, we might say, once upon a time in Mexico City there was a factory which, after closing down, was due to be demolished to make room for a new shopping mall.

Grove rough-terrain crane on rooftop lifting job

The Yuen Long MTR station in Hong Kong is undergoing a series of improvements which include upgrading vehicular access to the site. On the job is a Grove RT550E rough-terrain crane, which Yee Hop Engineering Co Ltd has positioned on the station roof to hoist up construction materials including steel bars and cement with loads weighing up to 14 t.

Dust Control at Mines

Global Road Technology (GRT) India, with 2,459 miles of road construction currently under execution, unveils its unique dust control technology, GRT: HAUL-LOC for DOTT Services (DOTT), contractor for Singareni Collieries Mines.

Innovating in India

Henkel Adhesives Technologies India, the a fully owned subsidiary of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, is enhancing its capabilities of the Innovation Center at Pune to serve the emerging markets globally.

Reaching New Heights in Demolition

Volvo Construction Equipment (CE) has launched its EC480E HR high reach demolition machine in Australia and is receiving positive feedback for the unit?s versatility, which delivers a complete demolition solution in a single machine.

Potain MCT 88?s remote function enables efficient Serbian bridge reconstruction

In Novi Sad, Serbia, a Potain MCT 88 tower crane is playing a pivotal role in a project to rehabilitate the ?e?elj Bridge, which spans the Danube River and connects a key stretch of international railway. Azvi, the construction division of Seville, Spain-based Azvi Group, was tasked in August of 2016 with rebuilding the bridge which was damaged in war.

Potain HD 32 A refurbished

A Potain HD 32 tower crane from Manitowoc?s stockyard in France has been refurbished at the Manitowoc EnCORE facility in Baltar, Portugal, and sold to Talib & Shamsi Constructions in India. Amjad Shamsi, Managing Director of Talib & Shamsi Constructions, said.

Only undercarriage experts should do the maintenance and management

A proper undercarriage management and operations following the best practices will always help in maintenance and long life of crawler tracks. Saibal Mitra, Dy General Manager Parts Sales & Operations, Tractors India Pvt Ltd

Undercarriage Behaviour

L&T explains the reasons for wear and tear of undercarriage parts and the preventive measures to be taken to maximise track life. Bull dozers and hydraulic excavators are track-type machines that form an integral part of any construction and mining site.

Positive on Indian Market

Since 2007, Herrenknecht has been represented in India with its wholly owned subsidiary Herrenknecht India in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. There are about 90 employees to support projects and customers quickly and competently.

Demand for mining equipment from PSUs is expected to increase

Gmmco is fully geared up to serve its customers with efficient product support, so they achieve maximum uptime and productivity of CAT fleet, says S Ananthakrishnan, AVP, Mining Project Sales, Gmmco. Excerpts from the interview.

Demand for mining equipment from PSUs is expected to increase

Gmmco is fully geared up to serve its customers with efficient product support, so they achieve maximum uptime and productivity of CAT fleet, says S Ananthakrishnan, AVP, Mining Project Sales, Gmmco.

We have significant breakthroughs in bearing technology

The Timken products and services have proved to be one of its kinds by helping customers with efficiency and solutions, and we definitely see a great potential for our products for the CE sector in the coming years,

Liebherr bags new orders

Liebherr?s exclusive distributor in Australia, Morrow Equipment Co LLC based in Caringbah, NSW near Sydney, has expanded its crane fleet.

The welding market is expected to reach Rs.16,750 cr by 2019-20

In the welding sector, the number of available skilled and trained workers is much less than the need. We are trying to concentrate on training and skill development so that we have more skilled and trained workers readily available, which will increase the productivity, says R Srinivasan, Vice President, The Indian Institute of Welding. Excerpts from the interview...

Schwing Stetter Unveils Five New Products

The new product launches strengthen Schwing Stetter?s expertise in concrete technology.Schwing Stetter India, a leading concrete construction equipment manufacturer in India, has unveiled five new products along with five new variants at Excon 2013, the seventh edition of South Asia?s biggest construction equipment event.

Robbins? veteran machine

The fast rate is just one of many triumphs for the 6.2 m (20.2 ft) Robbins Main Beam TBM operating at the Indianapolis Deep Rock Tunnel Connector (DRTC).

BRO strives to rebuild roads in flood-hit U'khand, Himachal

In Uttarakhand, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is striving to rebuild the roads in flood affected areas. BRO is continuing with its efforts of opening the road network in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. BRO has pressed in to service about 130 excavators and bulldozers. Despite bad weather BRO has kept open both the main axis i.e. Rishikesh to Uttarkashi and Rishikesh - Joshimath ? Govindghat in Uttarakhand.

Caterpillar and TIPL expand rajasthan footprint

Caterpillar and its Indian dealer network is aggressively expanding its footprint in Rajasthan in a bid to further bolster its sales and service network through TIPL, Caterpillar's authorised dealer.

Caterpillar, TIPL to strengthen presence in Rajasthan

Tractors India Private (TIPL) plans to open a substantial number of retail outlets and after sales service centres at various locations in Rajasthan, including Jaipur and Udaipur to widen its reach and services to customers through the availability of high quality parts and technical support. TIPL is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tractors India (TIL) and is responsible for the entire Caterpillar business of c

Caterpillar and its dealer TIPL expand Rajasthan footprint

With the economy showing signs of improvement and demand for equipment in the infrastructure sector, Caterpillar and its Indian dealer network is aggressively expanding its footprint in Rajasthan in a bid to further bolster its sales and service network through TIPL,

Total solutions from Gmmco

Gmmco offers one-stop solutions to customers looking for mining, construction and road-laying machines, and engines of various capacities and for various applications. Established in 1967, Gmmco, a CK Birla group company, has been engaged in the sale and support of construction

Post-Sandy reconstruction

Hiring in the long-depressed US construction industry will get a boost from the rebuilding that will follow the super storm Sandy.Those jobs, in turn, could raise economic growth, analysts say.The modest lift to the economy is expected to come in the first months of 2013.

SNIPPETS

CNH International has signed a distribution and service agreement with DKSH Group, Asia?s leading market expansion services provider, to sell and support New Holland Agriculture equipment in Vietnam.

The crack of dawn

The India Construction Festival, held in Delhi from 12-15 September, organised by ASAPP Media Information Group ( publishers of Equipment India) served to restore some of the lost faith and confidence in the infrastructure industry

Sandvik offers the lowest power consumption in VSI crushing

At Sandvik, we also give utmost importance to continuous inno?vation; innovation is seen mostly in terms of continuous mecha?nisation, electronics, enhanced produ?ctivity, lower energy consumption, etc. that contribute to our customers? productivity,

Demolition Experts

Kafril & Reinwald Spezialabbruch GmbH safely and efficiently handles demolition of monumental structures for industry and others: the company is known for Germany?s tallest excavator with its reach of 50 m fitted to its boom.?Until now the tallest demolition excavator in Germany only just reached to 40 metres,? explains Jens Karnahl.

Manitowoc rebuilds Oz team

Manitowoc has made changes to their sales team and regional coverage in Australia. Andy Chambers was appointed Sales Manager for Victoria and Tasmania, and Ben Masters will now manage Queensland in addition to his existing sales areas of South Australia and the Northern Territory.

TBMs to the Rescue

Robbins' TBMs are no strangers to challenging conditions, having persevered through severe floods and difficult ground at India's remote AMR water tunnel. On 18 June 2011, the 10 m (32.8 ft) Double Shield machine at the inlet

By the year 2014-15, the top line should grow three to four fold

We have undertaken a number of measures such as creation of fiscal strength, intellectual capital sufficiency, diversification of our product and capability repertoire, as well as investment in greenfield expansions, together with strengthening of our service brand, says Sumit Mazumder, Vice Chairman & Managing Director, TIL.

TIPL's New Nerve Centre

With a major focus on offering innovative and value-added solutions to the customers, TIPL, the wholly owned subsidiary of TIL, has launched a 50,000 sq ft, state-of-the-art Component Rebuild Centre (CRC).

Cummins to invest Rs 500 cr

Cummins India will invest up to Rs 500 crore for expanding its existing capacity in the current financial year.

Working in Icy Conditions

In Jukkasj?rvi, Sweden, four Volvo wheel loaders are braving conditions below freezing, to move 900 tonne of ice and 21,500 cu m (759,000 ft?) of snow in a bid to rebuild the famous Ice Hotel.

25 Years of Nation-Building

Gmmco was formed in 1967 when the GP-CK Birla Group took over Blackwood Hodge Equipment, who were distributors for the Terex range of products.

Our focus is to be a partner to our customer

From being a niche equipment manufacturer to a total process solutions provider with extensive and comprehensive back up support for the tunnelling and mining industries, the success story of Normet continues its trajectory.

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