A modern combine harvester contains more hydraulic circuits than most people would guess. The header drive, the threshing cylinder speed adjustment, the unloading auger positioning, the cab suspension, the four-wheel-drive engagement, the header hei...
May. 21. 2026
China's industrial maintenance and procurement calendar has a fixed rhythm. Every year, plant engineers from chemical facilities, power stations, water treatment works, and industrial processing plants across the country come to Shanghai to evaluate...
May. 20. 2026
China's industrial geography is not uniform. The coastal provinces — Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai — have dominated manufacturing and trade exhibition activity for decades, and most international companies entering the Chinese m...
May. 19. 2026
Fluid machinery is a category that most trade directories handle badly. Pumps, fans, blowers, compressors, and the hydraulic and pneumatic power transmission systems that sit alongside them share underlying fluid dynamic principles but serve complet...
May. 18. 2026
The combine harvester that cuts wheat across 200,000 hectares of Ukrainian farmland every summer carries hydraulic systems that would not look out of place in a construction excavator. Working pressures of 350 bar, flow rates exceeding 150 litres pe...
May. 17. 2026
Two hundred thousand visitors. Two thousand two hundred exhibitors. An exhibition that spans 200,000 square metres across the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre and the outdoor areas that overflow with the kind of equipment that doesn't fit indoor...
May. 16. 2026
Every three years, Frankfurt becomes the centre of the global chemical process industry. ACHEMA — the World Exhibition and Conference for the Process Industries — fills the Frankfurt exhibition grounds with 3,800-plus exhibitors and 145,...
May. 15. 2026
Sixty-one thousand seven hundred visitors came to a basalt quarry in central Germany in 2023. They drove past beech forests and farm fields in the Hessian hills, parked in fields, and rode shuttle buses into an active industrial site where 305 compa...
May. 14. 2026
Italy is not the first country that comes to mind when people think about construction machinery markets. Germany has the engineering density, the US has the raw scale, and China now has the volume. But Italy has something those markets struggle to ...
May. 13. 2026
The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada was founded in 1932, in the middle of a depression, by people who believed that finding new mineral deposits was important enough to organise around even when nobody had money to develop them. Tha...
May. 12. 2026
Brazil is not a market that rewards half-hearted attention. The country has the largest construction machinery fleet in Latin America by a considerable margin, a mining sector that produces more iron ore than any other nation on earth, and an infras...
May. 11. 2026
Four years is a long time in mining. Commodity prices cycle, ore grades decline, mining districts emerge and contract, technology platforms mature, and the equipment required to extract minerals economically in one cycle may be substantially differe...
May. 10. 2026