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EQUIPMENT TICKER TAPE before starting to roll it out to customers in between Trimble and Hitachi where 2015. Trimble currently provides factory-ft grade control systems for Hitachi’s ZX200X- Prima eyeS euroPean market 5B semi-automatic excavators in Japan. Te separate deals were announced at the Tata Motors showcased its most powerful truck ever at the Buddh International Circuit near Delhi recently. Te company week. plans to debut the 1000 bhp Prima for the Conexpo trade show in Las Vegas this European market. Two prototypes of the aPollo tyreS PlanS greenfield 1000 bhp Prima will be on display at the Plant in aP Will rolling out BS-iV clear the event. Global player Apollo Tyres Ltd, recently Smog Te company says the 1000 bhp Prima will signed an agreement with the Andhra As the long impending transition from not be in any way inferior to European Pradesh government for a greenfeld BS-III to BS-IV fuel emissions norms trucks. Over the last three years, the T1 manufacturing plant, which includes a host approached its deadline of April 1 2017, the has been such a resounding success that of concessions, including VAT/CST/SGST Environment Pollution Control Authority Tata Motors believes the concept is here and power tarif rebate. (EPCA) and the Green Lobby petitioned to stay. Te attendance at Buddh has also Te `525 crore Greenfeld facility will the Supreme Court to ban sale and grown from 25,000 people in 2014 to twice roll out tyres for two- wheeler and pick-up registration of new BS-III emission vehicles as much in the following years with 2017 trucks. Te State Investment Promotion afer April 1. Now in a major setback to expected to set new records. Board (SIPB), chaired by State Chief auto manufacturers, the Supreme Court Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, has last month restrained them from selling SanghVi addS 18 large groVe atS approved reimbursement of 100 per cent BS-III vehicles from April 1, when BS IV Sanghvi Movers, is expanding its all VAT/CST/SGST for 20 years from the emission norms would come in force. Te terrain feet with the addition of 18 new date of commencement of commercial order will impact around 7-8 lakh BS-III 300 tonners from Grove. Sanghvi Movers’ production or up to realisation of 50 per compliant vehicles that are ready for sale. CMD – Chris Sanghvi, signed the deal cent of fxed capital investment, whichever All auto companies, except Bajaj, have with Manitowoc Senior VP Jens Ennen is earlier. Solomon Arokiaraj, Secretary, opposed EPCA’s plea. As per government and David Semple. Deliveries of the six Commissioner Industrial Promotion, AP, rules there would be an all India roll-out of axle GMK6300L will start May 2017. in an order stated that Apollo Tyres had BS-IV fuel from April 1 onwards. EPCA According to Sanghvi he chose Grove informed about its move to invest `4,025 says the objective behind having a cleaner because of the price and good afer sales crore over three phases with a potential to fuel technology would not be achieved if the service. Manufacturer Manitowoc said that create 1,400 jobs, covering direct, indirect old technology vehicles continue to food its Grove GMK6300L remains one of the and outsourced, with the phase one the market. Te transition to BS-IV is also most popular cranes around and is probably investment of `525 crore and employment mandatory for all construction equipment the best-selling 6-axle AT in the world. of about 450 persons. powered by diesel or petrol engines ranging Sanghvi Movers has a feet of 440 cranes from batching plants, etc, to of highway from 40 tonnes capacity up to an 800 tonne mtandt multi-manufacturer vehicles like loaders, cranes excavators, capacity. Te average age of equipment in order and construction trucks. Most OEMs in the feet is 10 to 12 years, Sanghvi said. Its Te Mtandt Group has ordered 158 new the construction sector will be impacted composition by manufacturer is roughly as machines to add to its rental division, which by this ruling. However, some OEMs follows: 30 per cent Liebherr, 30 per cent has the biggest AWP feet in India. like Daimler India Commercial Vehicles, Terex, 15 per cent Kobelco, 15 per cent Te brands ordered include ATN, (DICV), have already geared up for the BS Sany, and 10 per cent Manitowoc. Dingli, JLG, Magni, Skyjack and Unic, IV transition long time ago. It is leading representing a strategic mix of scissors, the transition with more than 1,000 BS-IV trimBle StrikeS dealS With booms, telehandlers, and loader cranes, said trucks on Indian roads already. Te 1,000th koBelco, hitachi the company. BharatBenz BS-IV truck was handed over Japanese excavator OEMs Kobelco and Mtandt Rentals is also set to order 80 units to a customer recently in Kerala, a state Hitachi have signed deals with construction from Dingli – designed at Magni’s R&D which had migrated even earlier to the BS- sofware specialist Trimble. Kobelco centre in Italy following Magni’s 20 per IV standard in November 2016 already. will integrate Trimble’s next generation cent acquisition of the company last year - BharatBenz BS-IV vehicles meet the 3D machine control platform – Trimble and a 72 m working height truck mounted upgraded norms using a system based on Earthworks for Excavators, with its platform from Ruthmann. Te company’s SCR technology proven in hundreds of Kobelco SK210LC-9 excavators. Hitachi strategy is to continuously grow and cater thousands of Daimler commercial vehicles Construction Machinery will use interfaces to the demand of new equipment from in many markets for over a decade. DICV from Trimble Connect sofware to develop customers, by investing in enhancing its has tested this technology in Indian an intelligent platform for its customers. existing feet and topping it up with a whole operating conditions for over a million km Tis builds on the existing relationship new lot of equipment. uu 88 construction opportunities|aPrIL 2017