Tag: Komatsu hybrid excavators

Construction Equipment

Komatsu unveils 3rd-generation, 36-ton HB36LC-3 hybrid excavator

Komatsu’s European leadership used the Bauma trade show last week to introduce its latest hybrid excavator, the 36-ton-class, 271-horsepower HB365LC-3. The company also updated the report it gave last year at Intermat on its intelligent machine population. The 80,000- to 82,342-pound HB365LC-3 follows the HB215LC-2 hybrid introduced at ConExpo in 2014.  (North American Komatsu executives […]

April 18, 2016

Construction Equipment

OEMs used ConExpo to preview what will be the most revolutionary decade in the history of heavy equipment and truck technology

As ConExpos go, the 2014 show was a welcome shot of enthusiasm for the construction industry. But it was a short quote from Doug Oberhelman, CEO of Caterpillar, that I think set the tone and the goals for the next decade in the heavy equipment business. Oberhelman was talking to the press about the completion […]

March 24, 2014