Tag: innovative construction products

Construction Equipment

2014 Innovations Winner: Michelin Tweel airless tire

The tire market is a precise, refined, mature market that has, for the most part, relied on pneumatic tires for more than a century. Despite the vulnerability associated with air loss, pneumatic tires became the dominant technology thanks to several performance advantages – low contact pressure, low vertical stiffness, low rolling resistance over rough surfaces […]

January 6, 2014

Construction Equipment

2014 Equipment World Innovations Awards: The 5 game-changing construction products of the last year

OEMs fielded many good new products last year, but only a handful are truly innovative game changers. We’ve put together a collection of five products that, in no particular order, gave those in construction better, more efficient ways to work and, in general, simply rocked our industry.   Hilti Hollow Drill Bit Conventional hammer drill […]

January 6, 2014

Construction Equipment

2014 Innovations Winner: Cummins 5.0L V8 diesel engine

With the introduction of the Cummins 5.0L V8, a lightweight, technologically sophisticated V8 diesel engine, Cummins has changed the game when it comes to powerplants for light- and medium-duty applications. The engine has two names and two iterations. The ISV5.0 is the commercial version of the engine. Cummins is positioning this as a fuel-efficient alternative […]

January 6, 2014

Construction Equipment

2014 Innovations Winner: WeighSafe Hitch

One of those “why-didn’t-I-think-of-that-moments” came during a walk through the 2013 Specialty Equipment Market Association’s (SEMA) New Product Showcase last November. Of more than 2,200 new products on display, the WeighSafe Hitch, invented by mechanical engineer and hydraulic expert Kevin McAllister, caught our attention. The WeighSafe Hitch has a built-in tongue-weight gauge activated by a […]

January 6, 2014

Construction Equipment

2014 Innovations Winner: Komatsu D61i-23 dozer with integrated machine control

When it came to bringing the D61i-23 dozer to market, Komatsu engineers decided that they wanted to take the next step forward in the evolution of machine control. There are plenty of plug-and-play aftermarket machine control options available, but Komatsu wanted to seamlessly integrate machine control into the dozer body itself. And beyond that, they […]

January 6, 2014