Atlas Copco’s new Minetruck MT42 represents the next generation of underground trucks, designed to maximise productivity and provide increased safety and excellent operator comfort in underground haulage applications.

Roads are the backbone of a country’s infrastructure and the frame of economic development. They serve as key infrastructural units which provide linkages to other modes of transportation like railways, shipping, and airways. Roads also support the growth of agriculture and other industries, and furnish easy access to social infrastructure such as schools and health centres.

The movie ‘The Towering Inferno’ tells the harrowing tale of an iconic building design gone wrong. In the world of Facilities Management (FM) one cannot help but wonder where the FM team was in the design of this fictional building?

A Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development document says progress is being made on reducing the road maintenance backlog in the country although it's still below planned targets as the extent of the task is beyond the phisical capital readily available.

A new range of hydraulic clamshell buckets is now available for Bobcat E55W, E60 and E80 excavators.  In addition, the range of dipperstick-mounted hydraulic clamp attachments for the company’s excavator range is now complete with new attachments for the E80 excavator model.