Collins’ knock-out combination
Midlands-based Collins Demolition has recently bought a pair of Volvo EC700 excavators and both came equipped with the OilQuick automatic quick coupler system for changing attachments.
The machines are currently working in the Birmingham area on the site of the former Hams Hall power station, a structure built in the 1920s. It was completed in three stages – 1927-9, 1949 and 1958 – and once boasted 13 cooling towers and some interesting early power-generating machinery. Collins has the contract to complete the ground remediation.
A variety of hydraulic attachments are available on the site for the EC700 machines, both of which have had the OilQuick OQ90 quick coupler and attachment brackets installed by ECY Haulmark, the Warrington-based attachment specialist. The attachments in use on the site include a 3.8-tonne VTN MD610 selector grab and a 8.7-tonne VTN FP70 rotating concrete processor, also supplied by ECY Haulmark, as well as a variety of hydraulic breakers and buckets.
Koreans prepare for Hillhead
The 2018 Hillhead quarrying and construction machinery is fast approaching (26th-28th June) and Korean manufacturers Hyundai and Doosan have both been in touch with news of their plans.
Hyundai Construction Equipment will have its recently launched HX130 LCR (pictured above) – which is the third compact-radius excavator model from its HX series.
ScotPlant 2018 – 20-21 April
Latest machines from some of the major construction equipment manufacturers will be on show at the Royal Highland Centre, near Edinburgh next weekend for ScotPlant 2018.
ScotPlant is the biggest event in the Scottish plant industry calendar, with more than 150 exhibitors, including JCB, Volvo, Liebherr, Case, Sandvik, Komatsu, Doosan, Hyundai, Takeuchi, Wacker Neuson and Kubota.
Among machines on show will be the new Hyundai HX130 LCR crawler excavator, making its European debut, which will be on the Young Plant Sales stand. The machine is the third compact-radius excavator in Hyundai’s HX series product line.
Liebherr fleet lays foundations in Moscow
Seven Liebherr duty cycle crawler cranes and a specialist piling rig are forming the foundations for a new bus station in Moscow.
The bus station is going to be an 11-storey glass palace on the Sholkovskoye Chaussee, with 1600 buses a day passing through. Of the total project cost of €73m, about 20% is being spent on the foundations.
The architect is Werner Sobek and the contractor is local firm Fensma.
Hill goes small with baby Tefra
Tefra quick couplers are now available for micro-excavators.
Hill Engineering introduced the fully automatic hydraulic Tefra quick coupler for excavator attachments in 2012 but they were not designed to fit any machine smaller than three tonnes.
Now, however, it has introduced the 2T Tefra coupler, designed for excavators from 1.4 tonnes up to 2.5 tonnes, depending on the dimensions of the excavator.