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BICES and AEM
Join Forces
The Beijing International Construction Machinery
Exhibition and Seminar and the Association
of Equipment Manufacturers, which owns the
CONEXPO Asia exhibition, have announced a
cooperative effort to ensure the perpetuation of
an international construction machinery exhibition
in China. The BICES-AEM partnership will bring
together manufacturers, customers and industry
organizations to produce the most successful
event possible for all industry stakeholders. BICES
2009 will be held 3-6, November 2009 in Beijing
at the Jiuhua International Exhibition Centre.
Atlas Copco withdraws
from Intermat
Atlas Copco together with Dynapac has withdrawn
from participating at the construction trade show
Intermat 2009, which will take place in Paris,
France in April 2009. A trade show like Intermat
requires extensive resources to attend, both in
terms of money and people. Because of the
turmoil and uncertainty in the construction market,
fewer visitors, particularly international, are
expected to come to Intermat. With this in mind,
Atlas Copco estimates it can bring more benefits to
customers by reallocating the effort spent on Intermat
and focusing on more targeted activities. Atlas
Copco is committed to the construction market.
The company says that it will also in this downturn
develop the leadership by working closely to the
customers. By focusing on more direct customer
activities, they will interact more efficiently with the
customers and will be better able to respond to
the direct needs of the market.
Bobcat’s 50th
Anniversary
Competition Winners
Bobcat has announced the three prize-winners
in the ‘What Did Bobcat Do For Me?’ 50th anniversary
celebratory competition. The winner of
the Grand Prize, a trip to the USA, including a visit
to the Bobcat factories at Bismarck and Gwinner
in North Dakota and a one-day visit to New York,
was David Arthon of Fuveau in Aix-en-Provence in
Southern France, a customer of the Bobcat dealer
Boïs. The second prize, a EUR 1000 voucher for
Bobcat products, went to Richard Heskens of the
Netherlands, a customer of Bobcat Zoeterwoude.
Mathias Morlion of Belgium, a customer of Bobcat
dealer, Vangaever, won the third prize of a EUR
500 voucher for Bobcat products.
www.bobcat.com
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Caterpillar
launches Cat TV
Caterpillar has launched a new interactive website,
CAT TV at www.mycattv.com, introducing a
previously unseen level of engagement with the
public in the Caterpillar world. Visitors to the site
will experience web-based video communication
that allows everyone from large mining companies
to schoolchildren to see the strengths
of Caterpillar products and services in a visual,
interactive way.
New videos are added to the six channels of
CAT TV regularly, and Caterpillar selects a videoof-the-week.
All videos can be embedded into
other websites and used, for example, for training
purposes. To ensure maximum interactivity, visitors
to the site can also share their own Caterpillar
videos and, at a later stage, post and read comments
on all videos.
www.cat.com
CONEXPO Russia
May 2010
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers
and its member companies have announced
that the next CONEXPO Russia will be
delayed until 2010 to allow the economy
to improve. It has been rescheduled for
19-22 May 2010 and will be held at the
Transport-Exhibition Complex next to the
Zhukovsky Airport, Moscow. Some of the
companies already supporting and participating
in the next CONEXPO Russia include Chetra,
Caterpillar, Terex, JCB, Komatsu, Volvo and the
Gaz Group.
Hillhead 2009
Postponed
In view of both the scale and speed with which the
current adverse economic climate has developed,
a decision has been made to postpone the UK
show Hillhead scheduled for June 2009 for a
period of 12 months. Despite the show being
heavily booked as usual, discussions took place
with leading exhibitors at the end of January
following which it was concluded that it would
be in the best interests of the event if it were put
back a full year to allow UK market conditions
time to stabilise. The organisers apologise for any
inconvenience this may cause and the new dates
for Hillhead 2010 are 22-24 June.
www.hillhead.com
Caterpillar launches
Safety.cat.com
Caterpillar has launched SAFETY.CAT.COM, to
promote the safety and health of everyone in,
on or around Caterpillar products. It is available in
English, French, Spanish and Portuguese and reinforces
safety messages found in the company’s
official Operation and Maintenance Manuals. The
site also covers the world of safety in motion.
Caterpillar videos on walk around inspections
and operating tips are available on demand from
one online source. Other offerings include OMM
excerpts, multimedia pieces, and toolbox talks on
a variety of safety topics.
Stone adds
diamond saw blades
The US company Stone Construction Equipment,
Inc has added a line of diamond saw blades to
complement its range of masonry and concrete
saws. The new saw blade line covers the most
common sizes for the vast majority of cutting applications.
The 26 primarily general purpose blades in
the line fall into two categories, Saw-lect the value
line, and Saw-preme the premium line.
The laser welded blades are extremely well
balanced and flatter delivering faster, straighter
cuts, the first time, every time.
The blades
range in size from
305mm to 508mm,
with bond ratings
from 3 to 8 to cut
brick, block, stone, cured concrete, green concrete,
asphalt and asphalt over concrete. The
blades fit all 25mm arbours and can be used
wet or dry. They fit both Stone saw lines, and the
majority of the blades can also be used on high
speed saws.
www.stone-equip.com
Where music and
demolition met, for
one last time…
The iconic Astoria music venue in the heart of London’s
theatre land has played host to some of the
biggest bands in the music business. In its 30-year
history, the Astoria’s 2,000 capacity venue played
host to everyone from the Beach Boys and David
Bowie to current stars such as Amy Winehouse,
Oasis and the Arctic Monkeys.
But as preparation for London’s Crossrail
project gathers pace, the venue hosted its last-ever
gig. Even as concert goers were queuing, amid
TV and radio journalists capturing the moment
for posterity, scaffolding was being put in place
to facilitate the demolition works. Bizarrely, in
the middle of all this, a music journalist for BBC
Radio, who was there to see the demolition, was
interviewing PDi’s Mark Anthony, who was there
purely to watch the bands.
New dumpers
from AUSA
In response to customer demand, Spanish
construction equipment manufacturer AUSA has
recently launched two new 2.5t articulated rotating
dumpers, the D 250 AHGA and the D 250 AHG,
which complete its line of dumpers. The dumpers
have been designed specially for the Central European
and Scandinavian markets, where there is
a strong demand for high performance machines,
the company claims.
www.ausa.com
New supplier
in Australia
Asia Pacific with focus on Australia and New Zealand
has got a new supplier of concrete cutting and construction
machinery in the newly formed company
Traxx Construction Products. Traxx is essentially a
group of well-know individuals in this industry in
Australia headed by Lloyd Williams. Traxx is set
out to supply quality, innovative and competitively
priced diamond tools and associated machinery.
In essence, machinery that typically consumes
diamond tools.
“We have however, also formed a division that
supplies complementary tools to the respective
industries we deal with as well as consultancy
services to, in particular, the concrete sawing and
drilling professionals,” says Lloyd Williams.
Primarily customer of TRAXX will be a consumer
of goods involved in the concrete sawing and drilling,
rental, demolition, concrete placement, construction,
tiling, surface preparation and stone processing industries.
TRAXX manufactures many of its own products
but reserves the right to source the very latest and
innovative additions to the construction industry, from
a vast network of business partners. The people
behind Traxx are Lloyd Williams, Gail Williams, Dianne
Eade, Lorraine Kenny, Stuart Smith and Mark Snoad.
More about Traxx in the next issue of PDi.
www.traxxcp.com.au