SUMITOMO has released the HA90C. It boasts the installed 3.0m-7.5m extensible screed, which is a world first. With a potential maximum paving width of up to 9.0m when extension screeds are attached, it is now attracting considerable attention within the paving industry.

The new-style SH350HD-5 also contributes to reduced running costs.

Despite the hard economic conditions that have continued in Vietnam as a result of the global recession, large projects were successively announced at the beginning of 2009, which included the construction of a nuclear power plant and high speed trains.

An excavator is an engineering vehicle consisting of an articulated arm (boom, stick), bucket and cab mounted on a pivot (a rotating platform, like a Lazy Susan) atop an undercarriage with tracks or wheels. Their design is a natural progression from the steam shovel.

New Zealand distributor AB Equipment recently delivered a Sumitomo 210-5 excavator.

HP Contractors has been a trusted name in the earthmoving industry for more than 25 years. At age 14, founder Ron Potter presented himself at what was then PNT, lied about his age and asked for a job. Later it was discovered he was not yet 15, but his excellent work ethic kept him on. 

"Fuel savings do not go unnoticed," says Wilson Contractors Managing Director, Tony Wilson. "Whilst our existing Sumitomo Series 3 excavators have always proved very fuel efficient, the newer Sumitomo 210 Dash 5 model is actually showing a 20 percent improvement over the Series 3 and a 25 percent improvement over other machines in our fleet."

The very first Sumitomo SH130-5 to arrive in New Zealand was recently delivered by local distributor AB Equipment to Waikato-based heavy farm contracting and drainage work specialist, Peter Goodwin Contracting