MOLINE, Illinois — Hitachi rigid-frame trucks set the standard for productivity and comfort. After several months of field testing, the company’s newest model — the electric-drive EH4000ACII — is ready to roll. It combines Hitachi’s time-honored front trailing arm and NEOCON-ETM suspension system with the vertical integration of Hitachi’s own IGBT AC-Drive technology. The result [...]

Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) NV (HCME) has supplied its tenth machine to the largest mine in Finland owned by Talvivaara Mining Company Plc. To commemorate the delivery of the EH3500ACII dump truck, a handover ceremony was held on-site at the Talvivaara mine near Sotkamo, 600km north of Helsinki.
The keys of the dump truck were presented [...]

As a result of the transaction, McClung-Logan has now added Volvo compaction and milling products to its existing portfolio, which prior to the acquisition already included wheel loaders, excavators, articulated haulers, motor graders, compact wheel loaders and excavators, skid steer and backhoe loaders.
The purchase was announced in a statement by Tom Logan, President of McClung-Logan. [...]

The new EPA-certified Volvo D11 Tier 4i engine with V-ACT (Volvo-Advanced Combustion Technology) is built with ultra high pressure variable fuel injection systems, super efficient cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR), precise variable-geometry turbo (VGT) turbocharger controls, a powerful new engine management system (EMS), and an integrated exhaust after treatment system, equipped with a particulate [...]

Rapid fluctuations in currency exchange rates have a significant impact on corporate activity including that of the automotive industry because of the global scale of its operations.
A case in point is the recent appreciation of the Japanese yen against other major world currencies to levels exceeding all projections. If sustained, this trend will adversely affect [...]

Tokyo, Japan- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), in consortium with Foster Wheeler Energy Limited of the UK, has received an order from E.ON UK plc, to support the front-end engineering design (FEED) for a post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture plant proposed as part of E.ON’s planned new supercritical coal-fired power station in Kent, England, UK. [...]

Tokyo, Japan - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) is planning to launch production of gear cutting machines in China at a facility that will simultaneously serve as a production base for other company business. MHI has determined to build a new plant on the premises of Changshu Ryoju Machinery Co., Ltd. (CRM) in Changshu, Jiangsu [...]

Tokyo, Japan: Hitachi, Ltd. announced that together with Poland-based construction company Energomontaz Polnoc S.A. (EMP) it has won an order to supply denitrification equipment from Vattenfall Heat Poland S.A, a subsidiary of Vattenfall AB in Sweden. The denitrification equipment, which removes nitrous oxide (NOx) from flue gas, is for the No. 10, 11, 14 and [...]

US - Part of the growing line of Volvo high-reach demolition excavators, the EC460CHR features an 89-foot-7-inch boom and arm. The excavator is supplied with both high-reach demolition boom and standard excavator configuration digging boom / arm and a changeover process that takes as little as 30 minutes. Also standard is a transportation cradle for [...]

US - “As the pace of business continues to accelerate, the ability for organizations to mobilize the workforce has become critical for success,” said Nick Mavrick, Vice President of Marketing for Volvo Rents. “The launch of our free iPhone application is an exciting development, as we upgrade the way we connect with the world.”
“The application [...]