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  • Challenger Motor Freight Partners With Transtex To Obtain Substantial Fuel Savings

    Challenger Motor Freight, a Canadian leader of transportation services, has partnered with TRANSTEX, supplier of leading-edge trailer aerodynamic solutions, to save fuel and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

    Challenger Motor Freight Partners With Transtex To Obtain Substantial Fuel Savings

     

     

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    Mar 15, 2022 - 4 years ago

  • Michelin Is Getting Ready To Go To The Moon

    An airless tire to equip the future lunar vehicle: this is the new challenge taken on by Michelin, in conjunction with the team formed by Northrop Grumman, within the framework of a tender from NASA last November.

    Michelin Is Getting Ready To Go To The Moon
    The model of the prototype airless lunar tire, fitted to the lunar vehicle, will be on show at the Northrop Grumman head office (Falls Church, Virginia, USA).

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    Mar 14, 2022 - 4 years ago

  • Volvo CE Tests World’s First High-Lift Tele-Operation Over 5G

    Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is the first in the world to trial a remote-controlled High-lift wheel loader over a 5G network in a complex forestry application – in a bid to develop safer, more productive timber processes and explore its potential as an enabler for automation.

    Volvo CE Tests Worlds First High Lift Tele Operation Over 5G
    Volvo CE tests world’s first high-lift tele-operation over 5G.

     

     
    The unique research project Remote Timber is a collaboration between Volvo CE and the telecom operator Telia, timber and paper manufacturer SCA, Mid University Sweden, Skogforsk and Biometria. This week's tests at SCA's timber terminal in Torsboda, Sweden, have demonstrated that it is possible to tele-operate a Volvo L180 High-lift wheel loader, hundreds of kilometers away. And by using a closed 5G network, low latency has proven to be a major advantage – allowing operators to perform the sensitive process of picking, loading and organizing logs remotely.

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    Mar 11, 2022 - 4 years ago

  • Stoughton Achieves ISO 9001:2015 QMS Certification For Painted Intermodal Chassis Production

    Stoughton Trailers, a global leader in transportation equipment, is proud to announce it has achieved ISO 9001:2015 quality management system certification for the production of painted intermodal chassis in the Evansville, Wis. facility. 

    Stoughton Achieves ISO 9001:2015 QMS Certification For Painted Intermodal Chassis Production

     

     
    ISO 9001:2015 is a globally recognized Quality Management Standard (QMS) developed and published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The certification provides a model for companies of all types and sizes to use in building an effective quality management system. The standard is based on several quality management principles, including having a strong customer focus, involvement of top management, an outlined processbased approach and continuous improvement. Using ISO 9001:2015 helps ensure that customers get consistent, good-quality products and services. 

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    Mar 10, 2022 - 4 years ago

  • Survey: More Work, Higher Wages, And More People Needed

    B.C.’s construction industry is expecting more work and significant pay increases for workers in 2022, while dealing with the most significant labour shortage in decades, according to the results of a survey of Independent Contractors and Businesses Association (ICBA) member companies.

    Survey: More Work, Higher Wages, And More People Needed
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    Fully 96 per cent of ICBA’s construction companies expect 2022 to be as busy or busier than 2021—56% say they will do more work in 2022, and 40% say they will do the same as 2021.

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    Mar 10, 2022 - 4 years ago

  • Superior & General Aggregate Expand Relationship To Central Canada

    Superior Industries, Inc., a US-based manufacturer and global supplier of aggregate processing and handling systems, is excited to announce a growing partnership with its longest serving equipment dealer. General Aggregate Equipment Sales — who purchased their first Superior conveyor way back in the early 1980s — will now represent the manufacturer’s full-line of equipment in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. A full-line dealer carries all of Superior’s crushing, screening, washing and conveying equipment plus parts.

    Superior & General Aggregate Expand Relationship To Central Canada

     


    Just like their existing partnership in several U.S. states in the Upper Midwest, General Aggregate Equipment Sales will sell, service and support Superior’s crushing, screening, washing and conveying equipment in Manitoba and Saskatchewan as well. Superior’s diverse product portfolio includes jaw, cone, HSI and VSI crushers; horizontal, inclined and grizzly feeding vibratory equipment; scrubbing, classifying, washing and dewatering solutions; plus unloading, transferring and stacking conveyors including the manufacturer’s famous TeleStacker Conveyor.

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    Mar 9, 2022 - 4 years ago

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