In the third quarter of this year, LIUGONG signed orders for more than 10 units of excavators with a major customer in Taiwan. Up to now, the first batch of equipment has been delivered, and the rest will be delivered in succession in the near future. After learning about the excavator purchasing needs of the Taiwan customers, Liugong's local agents visited the client's project site many times to understand the detailed requirements. Based on the requirements of cabin and port coal operation, considering the bad working conditions and heavy dust, LIUGONG added oil-bath filter to to ensure the filtration effect in harsh environment. After the cooperation was reached, the customer decided to purchase another 5 sets after inspecting the first batch of equipment. Equipped with Cummins engine and Kawasaki main pump valve, this batch of LIUGONG excavators have micro pressurization and high sealing cab to isolate external coal dust and to ensure good indoor working environment. Six working modes are set to meet the operation requirements under different working conditions. The intelligent power control system, automatic deceleration function and advanced hydraulic system are combined to ensure the excellent performance and high fuel efficiency. At present, LIUGONG excavators have been widely used in Taiwan municipal, housing construction and other projects, and the performance is highly recognized by local users.

Recently, the World Brand Lab released the latest list of the Top 500 Asian Brands. With excellent market satisfaction, brand influence and strong industry leadership, SANY was successfully listed with China ranking of 53 and Asia ranking of 115, and won the first in Chinese Construction Machinery Brand. According to the reports, this is the 15th time that the World Brand Lab has evaluated the influence of Asian brands. A total of 500 brands from 21 countries and regions have been selected. The evaluation standard is the brand's influence in Asia, with basic indicators including market share, brand loyalty and Asian leadership. Its authority and credibility have become the benchmark to show the image of Asian brands.

ZOOMLION has been continuously focusing on the Belt and Road Initiative over the years. Recently, ZOOMLION signed with a local benchmark commercial concrete company in the United Arab Emirates for 6 units of pump trucks. As one of the local benchmark concrete companies in UAE, the customer has been purchasing European brand concrete equipment for a long time, with extremely strict selection standard of manufacturers. In view of Zoomlion's reliable equipment performance and perfect after-sales service, the customer has purchased a number of concrete equipment including pump trucks, towing pumps and concrete placing boom since the long-term cooperation agreement with ZOOMLION in 2007. The signing of the new order will further deepen the cooperation between the two sides.

Recently, XCMG delivered 10 units of 9-ton LW900KN wheel loaders overseas. Large-scale mines and ports have always been the best stage to show the performance of wheel loaders. This time the 10 units of wheel loaders are used for coastal low hills. Although the highest point is only 200 meters above sea level, but the road structure here is a non-paved pavement made of red clay gravel, and the width of the two-way road base is only 11 meters at its narrowest point. Featuring heavy dust and bumpy driving, it also has some roads with a slope of 10°to 30°. The long working time and heavy-duty working conditions have always been testing product quality. The XCMG LW900KN loader has a rated load far exceeding 9 tons, a bucket capacity of 5 cubic meters, a maximum lifting height of 3.3 meters, and an unloading distance of 1.4 meters. In particular, the second gear forward and reverse speeds both reach 12.5 kilometers per hour. "Strong power, large bucket capacity, high work efficiency, and guaranteed transition speed," the customer commented after a full comparison.

Recently, SHANTUI Janeoo conducted a 5G remote control system test for a concrete mixing plant. Before the test, the leaders of SHANTUI Janeoo checked the preparation condition, and put forward detailed suggestions on the appearance and design, requiring strict compliance with various operating procedures during the new product test.  SHANTUI Janeoo Remote Monitoring Center and Changqing Plant simultaneously carried out the heavy load test of the SjS76-25G remote control system of the concrete mixing plant. The leaders and R&D personnel of SHANTUI Janeoo watched the entire test process through the 5G remote monitoring system. Changqing Plant tracked the various instructions. Through remote control and field test data collection, the automatic production process, communication speed, database integrity and other parameters have all reached the test requirements. Later, SHANTUI Janeoo will further test the reliability of the system to prepare for its early market launch. Relying on the low latency and large bandwidth of 5G network, SHANTUI Janeoo 5G remote control system realizes true remote control by breaking the distance limit, leading in the control technology of the mixing plant.

Recently, a batch of brand-new SHANTUI 12-ton all-hydraulic single-drum road rollers have been shipped to Russian, following the export of 14-ton hydraulic road roller last month. The demand for all-hydraulic rollers in the Russian market has increased sharply over the years. Shantui’s main sales models in this market are mechanical rollers. Faced with fierce market competition, SHANTUI works hard to overcome the unfavorable factors caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, strengthens communication with Russian agents and keeps close communication with the decision-makers by regular video conferences, to expand the promotion of all-hydraulic road rollers.  The export of 12-ton full hydraulic rollers to the Russian market has great significance for the competitiveness of SHANTUI brand in the local market.

Recently, SUNWARD’s first large-scale purely electric hydraulic excavator SWE550FE has rolled off the production line. It took only 33 days from design to trial production with unremitting efforts of SUNWARD project team. SWE550FE is the first large-scale electric hydraulic excavator independently developed by SUNWARD, which mainly meets the needs of electric excavators in the medium and large opencast mining market. The whole excavator is driven by an AC motor, featuring zero emissions, low noise, low vibration, strong reliability and long service life. It also has an intelligent independent hydraulic oil cooling system, which can effectively reduce temperature and noise. New energy has always been an important direction for the development of construction machinery. Over the years, SUNWARD has constantly seek breakthroughs in green energy-saving technologies and successively developed low-pollution and high-efficiency products.

On August 5, ZOOMLION held a new product launch conference of its V series medium and small tonnage crawler cranes. The press conference combined elements such as "Expert Salon Forum", "Product Light Show", "Rock Music Festival". The products launched by ZOOMLION this time cover 55-90-ton telescopic boom and 55-500-ton crawler cranes, which are suitable for foundation construction, trestle construction, shield construction, bridge construction and wind power maintenance.  Four small-tonnage crawler cranes have the same characteristics: strong lifting performance, high working efficiency, comfortable operation, first-class configuration, and convenient use.  Three medium-tonnage cranes use modular design, equipped with stable and reliable WEICHAI engines. They can realize complete self-loading and unloading of left and right crawler frames, and the quick connection of the boom. The transportation width is no more than 3m, meeting the global transportation requirements. Electric-hydraulic components have a high commonality rate, which have been verified by the market for long-term reliability. For the newly released ZCT550V and ZCT900V, flexible transformation of the telescopic boom of a wheel crane and the ability of a crawler crane to travel on load are both included.

Following the batch export of large-scale mining equipment to Australia, XCMG exports its large-tonnage cranes to Australia in large numbers, marking that XCMG's series of construction machinery is getting much more popular in the high-end market of Australia. At a bustling deep-water port in China, several cranes of XCMG, wearing blue “armour", are being successively hoisted to the giant freighters, ready to be launched and about to sail. These XCMG cranes include crawler type, rough-terrain type and all-terrain type. We can find the Model XCA220 that General Secretary Xi Jinping tested when he inspected XCMG on December 12, 2017. As the high-end market of construction machinery, Australia has higher quality requirements in product performance, safety, operator comfort, reliability and maintenance convenience. In recent years, XCMG has gained a lot in this high-end construction machinery market with its great perseverance and excellent product quality and technology.  It is said that all the cranes are customized in accordance with the local standards of Australia. The color, style and parts are also designed as required. XCMG hoisting machinery with high technology and high reliability will be able to make an outstanding figure in Australia's construction machinery industry, and demonstrate its extraordinary skills of “Made in China” is helping local infrastructure construction.

Caterpillar recently announced the launch of its new generation of 600-tonne hydraulic mining shovel excavator with various design improvements and new components, which can improve the performance, durability, maintainability and operation comfort. Caterpillar's new 600-tonne hydraulic mining shovel excavator has replaced its 6060B in the hydraulic mining shovel excavator lineup, featuring updated engine, optimized hydraulic system, heavy duty structure and chassis, Caterpillar's electronic device and advanced cab. Caterpillar said one of the new generation of mining shovel excavators would run at the Quellaveco mine in Peru, which is being developed by Anglo American plc. At the same time, for the North American market, the engine of this product is equipped with a maintenance-free diesel oxidation catalyst emission control system, does not use diesel exhaust fluid and complies with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tier 4 Final regulations. Compared with the previous models, the combination of the updated engine and the optimized hydraulic system improves the fuel efficiency by 10-15%, with the efficiency of the backhoe configuration increasing by 3-5%. To reduce maintenance, the engine oil and filter change interval has doubled to 1,000 hours. The upgrading of the structure, chassis and slew ring helps maximize uptime, productivity and lower costs per ton. "The 6060 features a brand-new, state-of-the-art cab and operator's desk, with large floor window, windshield and side windows providing industry-leading visibility,” Caterpillar said. 6060 accept Cat MineStar™ solutions, a mining technology designed to improve mine safety, improve efficiency and reduce operating costs. In addition to the new-generation diesel 6060, Caterpillar will continue to provide electric 6060 AC FS for mines optimized for such machines.