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Hyundai Construction Equipment Co. has seen a sharp rise in the sales of its
excavators in China this year, backed by a recovery in the construction sector, according to the Yonhap News Agency. According to industry sources, the company sold some 1 600 excavators in the first four months of the year, nearing last year’ s sales of 1 900 units in total. Demand for construction equipment has been on the rise in China due to increased infrastructure budget spending. The Chinese economy grew 6.9 % in the first quarter of 2017, higher than its estimated annual growth of 6.5 %. In the January – April period, a total of 52 000 excavators were sold in China, more than doubling from a year earlier, the sources said.
US-based Dust Control Technology, which pioneered atomised mist dust control cannons over a decade ago with its powerful DustBoss designs, has changed its name to BossTek to better reflect all of the company’ s successful product lines. These include the OdorBoss line of environmentally safe topical and airborne odour suppression treatments, and the KoolBoss crowd cooling technology for large outdoor events.“ Over time, we began to realise that we were not simply a supplier of dust suppression equipment, but rather a solutions provider with the expertise to address a much wider range of applications,” says BossTek president Laura Stiverson.“ These new segments of our business are growing far beyond our initial expectations, and our updated company name more accurately reflects the firm’ s commitment to the expanding needs of our customers.”
Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction has installed a new 17 000t forging press— the world’ s largest to date— at the forging plant of its manufacturing complex in Changwon, South Gyeongsang province in South Korea. The new press is 29m tall and 9m wide, and can forge steel ingot with the strength equivalent of 240 000 men pressing on the metal at the same time. Doosan Heavy Industries had been working on the development of the press since 2014, applying its own proprietary technologies and experience acquired from years of making cast and forged materials for large-scale power projects. Doosan also expanded the size of its forging plant by nearly 34 % to 73 748m ² for the new large-scale machine, which replaced the existing 13 000t forging press that was operated for the past 35 years. The company’ s forging plant is now capable of producing 80 000t of forged materials a year.
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SDLG celebrates 45th anniversary with commemorative machines
Chinese construction equipment manufacturer Shandong Lingong Construction Machinery( SDLG) is celebrating its 45th anniversary as a company this year. Founded in the Chinese city of Yimeng in 1972 and launching its first wheel loader in 1979, SDLG has since grown into one of China’ s largest construction equipment manufacturers, having sold millions of machines over the past 4.5 decades.
To celebrate the 45th anniversary, the company rolled out a range of special edition equipment in April, including the L953F, L956F, L958F, L968F, LG6120E, LG6225E, LG6300E,
G9138, and G9190 models from its wheel loader, excavator, and motor grader portfolio. Each machine features a special coating that commemorates the occasion.
“ We are very pleased to celebrate 45 years in the equipment manufacturing industry and we are pleased to share this occasion with our customers,” said Wang Zhizhong, board chairperson of SDLG.“ Our achievements in the past few decades are a reflection of our customers’ commitment and support to the company, so we’ d like to take this opportunity to mark this milestone with them in mind.”
SDLG has been selling wheel loaders since 1979, and was one of the first companies in China to produce more environmentally sensitive machines.
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Chinese construction equipment manufacturer Shandong Lingong Construction Machinery( SDLG) is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year.
SDLG was one of the first companies in China to adopt the strategy to produce more environmentally sensitive machines for its customers, introducing its energy efficient LG953L wheel loader in 2009. In
2016, the company began selling its F-Series, Tier 4 Final machines across many of its product lines.
As part of a partnership with the World Wildlife Fund( WWF), SDLG became the first construction equipment company in China to successfully reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1.65 million tons, which it accomplished in just three years. Over the next five years, SDLG plans to invest more than USD40-million in a smart manufacturing project in partnership with Tsinghua University, with the ultimate goal of establishing intelligent plants in pursuit of zero emissions production.
SDLG was also ranked 35th in China’ s list of Top 100 Mechanical and Industrial Businesses by the China Machinery Industry Federation in 2016.
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