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october 2014
international
construction
Volvo video interview
now online
The video from thismonth’s interviewwith Volvo
Construction Equipment CEOMartinWeissburg is
available at
I
nanewvideoon thewww.khl.comVideoZone toaccompany thismonth’s
interview, VolvoConstructionEquipment CEOMartinWeissburg talks
about the company’s strategy on acquisitions, rental, branding and
manufacturing alongwith a viewon global equipmentmarkets.
Some of the key issues covered include Volvo’s decision to buy Terex’s
rigid and articulated hauler business earlier this year, the development of its
Chinese joint venture, SDLG, the company’s approach to equipment rental
and the expansion of its manufacturing footprint into emerging economies
around theworld.
AsMrWeissburg saidon thispoint, “It is important toVolvoConstruction
Equipment thatwe be local andwe be close toour customers.Tobe good in
China, you have to be Chinese – the same for India, Brazil, andRussia. It’s
important tous from a sourcing standpoint, and availability standpoint and
local content, to be very close to our customers for speed of delivery and to
have that global spread.”
“Iwouldn’t say the footprint is complete, but it is very good.Our industrial
footprint isalwaysgoing throughevolutionandchangesas themarketschange
–not justwithbusiness cycles, but aswewant to increase local content.
“So evenwithin a country, our footprintmight change as we increase local
content and purchasing of components. But I would say our coverage today
from an industrial standpoint iswherewewant it tobe.”
The full interview can be read on p. 14 - 15 of this months issue of
iC
. to
watch the accompanying video, go towww.khl.com/videozone
Senior figures
gather inCologne
Coverage of this year’sEuroplatform
conference held in Cologne,
Germany, can now be found on
The event for the powered access
industrywas chairedMurrayPollok,
editor-in-chief of
iC
sister magazine
Access Internationa
l.
Access International
editor Euan
Youdale offered insight into
present industry trends alongside
keynote
speakers
including
Don Ahern, owner of US
telehandler manufacturer Xtreme
Manufacturing.
They were joined by other senior
industry figures including Gordon
McGruer, owner of Kardon
Kontracts, who spoke on the
challenges of operating a fleet of
superbooms inEurope.
The major theme from the event
was a discussion of Europe showing
signs of positive growth in many
areas and the business opportunities
that haddeveloped.
There was also a panel discussion
thatincludedBradBoehler,president
of Skyjack, Jacco de Kluyver, UK
andBenelux sales director atGenie/
Terex, and Tim Whiteman, CEO
of the International Powered Access
Federation (IPAF).
A further core area of this year’s
event examined issues surrounding
the introduction of a greater range
of regulations governing the use of
construction equipment.
In particular, issues surrounding
industry self-regulation and tighter
emissions laws remained at the
forefront of many company’s core
considerations.
These discussion areas built on
trends that have previously flowed
from the conference including
examination of improvements in
construction equipment technology
which have been of positive benefit
to the industry.
Search on ‘Europlatform’; on
for more reports of
the event.
Monthlypodcast
Every issue of
iC
is accompanied by a podcast, which can be downloaded
from iTunes for free.Alternativelyyou can listen to it on thePodcast pageof
KHL.com, or clickon the image below in the iPad editionof themagazine.
Eachpodcast sees
iC
editorChris Sleight discuss key stories, including the
news making the headlines at the front of the magazine tomore in-depth
discussions stemming from features.
Go to ‘Podcasts’ under the ‘Audio&Video’ tab of
or scan
theQR code to access the latest editionThe online archive atwww.khl.com
now stretches back more
than two years.
