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The US-based Lombardi & Son Masonry has demonstrated its Lombardi Lift prototype for the first time. The platform is designed to be attached to a standard boom as a replacement to the usual basket.

Caterpillar Inc and Trimble are extending their collaboration to bring mining customers improved operational decision-making capabilities. The collaboration will leverage Caterpillar Global Mining´s industry expertise and combine its in-pit operational execution system, Cat MineStar, with Trimble´s portfolio of technology-enabled mining information solutions.

Manitowoc hosted a meeting for Latin America´s tower crane dealers in Panama to examine crane market opportunities and strategise over the best ways to address the region´s lifting challenges.

The ´featherweight´ category is driving the recovery in the earthmoving machinery world. Mini-loaders and mini-excavators up to 6 tonne continue to earn market shares on a global scale, improving from 15 per cent of total sales in 2010 to 24 per cent in 2015.

The preparations for the upcoming Bauma Conexpo Africa, being held from March 13-16, 2018 at the Johannesburg Expo Centre (JEC), have begun. Interested companies can download the application documents from www.bcafrica.com/trade-fair/exhibitors/booking-stands/application-documents/index.html.

Genie showcased a pair of scissor lifts at bauma China. The X-Series of scissor lifts, the first under the new branding, initially includes the 12 m working height X-12 and 14 m X-14, has been designed in Genie´s China and US research and development centres and includes structural differences to the scissor stack and chassis, plus a greater number of components locally produced in China.

Terex Port Solutions (TPS) has recently sustainably expanded its presence in Spain with diesel-electric Terex Gottwald mobile harbour cranes. Since December 2015, the leading maritime industry group Ership S.A. (Ership) has put three Terex Gottwald Model 6 mobile harbour cranes in the G HMK 6407 B four-rope-grab variant for professional bulk handling into operation.

According to 6Wresearch, GCC construction equipment (CE) market is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 1.6 per cent during 2016-22. The GCC construction equipment market is highly consolidated, wherein few international players have acquired majority of the market share.