Manitowoc has increased its support to customers in South Australia (SA) with the appointment of WATM Crane Sales & Service as its exclusive dealer for the region.

The first 700-tonne hydraulic excavator from XCMG has rolled off the company’s advanced assembly line in Xuzhou, China. The successful development and production of the new XE7000E makes China the fourth country in the world to have the capability of producing 700-tonne excavators after Germany, Japan and the US.

Reliance Infrastructure EPC has secured a contract worth Rs 1,584 crore from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) for the construction of Mumbai Metro Line-4.

The joint venture (JV) of Tata Projects-China Harbour Engineering Company (TPL-CHEC) received the Letter of Award (LoA) for constructing two packages of the Mumbai Metro Elevated Line 4. The packages lie on the line extending between Wadala and Kasarvadavali.

Vedanta Resources plc (Vedanta) has announced the appointment of Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan (Venkat) as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and a member of the Board of Directors, effective August 31, 2018. He succeeds Kuldip Kaura, the current Interim CEO.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) inked a pact for its maiden international project, part of the India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway.

Mahindra Powerol announced its entry in the gas powered genset segment. Babul Supriyo, Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, launched India’s first CNG/NG gas-based gensets powered by Mahindra in Delhi. The company launched a six-cylinder 125 kVA gas genset priced at Rs 9.5 lakh + taxes for the Delhi market.

Consoveyo S.A. (Consoveyo), part of Körber AG, will be exhibiting at the upcoming CeMAT Southeast Asia during May 2-6. The company’s full suite of warehouse picking solutions will be showcased at the event, along with its Automatic Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS).

One year before the opening of the world’s leading trade show bauma on April 8, 2019, Messe München provided an outlook on the latest developments: the site in the east of Munich will be expanded to 614,000 sq m, the number of halls will be increased to 18.