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Volvo Construction Equipment details ConExpo 2020 booth plans
Volvo Construction Equipment has unveiled further details of its 60,000-square foot ConExpo booth, located at F3432 in the new Festival Grounds. Working under the theme “Building Tomorrow,” the Volvo display will feature a central ramp leading up to the operator stations in both its largest-in-the-lineup EC950F excavator and its R100E 100-ton rigid hauler (a Tier 4 […]
January 21, 2020
Construction Equipment
PHOTOS: The giant trucks, dozers and diggers of MINExpo 2016
Equipment World editors have spent the last week walking the equipment-filled show floor and outdoor lots of the 2016 MINExpo trade show in Las Vegas. This show is home to some of the largest heavy machines in the world and, increasingly, some of the smartest, with the introduction of more and more electrified and autonomous machines […]
September 30, 2016
Construction Equipment
Komatsu unveils Autonomous Haulage Vehicle, a mining truck that doesn’t even have a cab
Though it offers autonomous operation on its 830E and 930E haul trucks, Komatsu has unveiled at the MINExpo show in Las Vegas a mining truck designed specifically for unmanned operation. Typically, the only difference you can spot between manned and unmanned mining trucks is the lack of an operator inside the cab. But Komatsu’s aptly-named […]
September 29, 2016
Trucks
Liebherr unveils 100-metric-ton T 236 mining truck, D98 engine series at MINExpo
At MINExpo Tuesday, Liebherr unveiled its T 236 100-metric-ton mining truck, in addition to a new D98 diesel engine series. While not yet commercially available, the company expects pre-series T 236 units to be made available for selected markets. Using a vertically integrated Litronic Plus Generation 2 electric drive system, the T 236 is designed […]
September 28, 2016
Trucks
With nuptials atop a 930E haul truck, Komatsu hosts ultimate Vegas wedding
Not everyone who gets married in Las Vegas remembers much of it. Or wants to. But if memorable does happen to be what you’re going for in a Vegas wedding, having them take place two stories high aboard a giant haul truck is certainly one way to go about it. At the MINExpo show Tuesday, […]
September 28, 2016
Vocational
How Cat is using the 793F haul truck to bring automation to more machines
Caterpillar first started internal discussions on autonomous trucks back in 1996, says Jim Hawkins, director of the company’s mining technology enabled solutions, “but really we didn’t start in earnest until 2012. We really wanted to focus on how to make an autonomous truck outperform a truck with an operator.” Company executives, including Hawkins and Cat group […]
September 27, 2016
Technology
Preco unveils PreView Sentry, adjustable heavy equipment object detection that sees all the way to the face of the machine
Preco Electronics is debuting the PreView Sentry at the MINExpo show in Las Vegas this week, an object detection technology that uses a different radar bandwidth than before, thus making it more functional, says Doug Whitfield, director of marketing. Sentry has a fully adjustable detection zone, with the ability to detect objects from the face of […]
September 27, 2016
Business
Liebherr scaling up mining manufacturing
In 2012, said Dr. Wolfgang Zulch, president Liebherr-Mining Equipment, Liebherr will have its highest manufacturing output ever. Further expansions are planned in several company plants, including the one in Newport News, Virginia. Zulch says the company is scaling up to manufacture more than 300 mining excavators and up to 120 large mining trucks per year. Zulch […]
September 24, 2012
Construction Equipment
Cat: “Beneficial partnership with Navistar”
“We feel we have a very beneficial partnership with Navistar, and we’re moving forward on getting an SCR engine in late first quarter 2013,” says George Taylor, on-highway truck group director, Caterpillar, during a press event held today prior to MINExpo. There are now more than 650 Cat CT660 trucks now out in the market, […]
September 24, 2012
Construction Equipment
Cat at MINExpo: How to determine the best hauling system
“We have the opportunity to work with our customers to work with the on maximizing production,”says Larry Tate, hauling products segment manager, Caterpillar during a pre-MINExpo event. With a job requiring a half million cubic yards, for instance, if you “can save just a few cents per yard, it adds up to big profits,” says […]
September 22, 2012
Business
Guest blog: So what’s happening in the off-the-road tire market?
The off-the-road (OTR) tire market has been on a roller coaster as far as supply and demand. The market was hit hard by the recession in 2009, but tire manufacturers were surprised at how quickly it came roaring back, which caused another supply shortage. In this Q&A prior to MINExpo next week, Gary Nash, Yokohama […]
September 19, 2012
Construction Equipment
MINExpo preview: MTG expands StarMet tooth system
Spanish ground engaging tool manufacturer MTG plans to intro four new sizes to its hammerless StarMet tooth system at MINExpo. Now available in sizes 15, 20, 30 and 40, MTG says the new sizes complete the product range offering for construction, heavy construction and mining. The light, short-tooth nose StarMet systems feature a new bilateral […]
September 18, 2012
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