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Visit www.tier4air.com UK Full Page.indd 1 04/09/2014 16:27:48 UK Full Page.indd 1 04/09/2014 16:28:42 internationalSEPTEMBER 2014 Vol 53 No 7 construction A KHL Group publication www.khl.com REGION Europe P19 EQUIPMENT Portable power P43 EQUIPMENT Wheeled loaders P25 SECTOR High rise P34 ICON 09 2014 Front Cover.indd 1 02/09/2014 09:24:09 Full page.indd 1 01/09/2014 12:22:33 KHL OFFICES UNITED KINGDOM (HEAD OFFICE) Southfields, Southview Road, Wadhurst, East Sussex TN5 6TP, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1892 784088 Fax: +44 (0)1892 784086 www.khl.com COMMENT USA OFFICE KHL Group Americas LLC 3726 East Ember Glow Way, Phoenix, AZ 85050 USA t would be easy to think of the construction equipment industry as Tel: +1 480 659 0578 a conservative business. After all, machines today don’t look radically e-mail: [email protected] different to many of their ancestors from decades ago. 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Some of the same arguments have JAPAN Akiyoshi Ojima prompted manufacturers to offer propane-fuelled generators, as you can Tel: +81 (0)3 3261 4591 read in this month’s portable power feature. e-mail: [email protected] The question with all these new technologies,hnologies, and others such as KOREA CH Park hybrids, is where is the payback? Departingparting fromfrom designdesign norms or Tel: +82 2 730 1234 e-mail: [email protected] bringing in new technology is bound too cost more thanthan stickingsticking withwith NORDIC COUNTRIES convention, so equipment buyers are goingoing to want to knowknow whatwhat thethe Peter Gilmore Tel: +44 (0)20 7834 5559 advantages are and at what point they offsetffset thethe higherhigher purchasepurchase costs. e-mail: [email protected] This is something I think the industrytry couldcould communicate betterbetter TURKEY mething the industry will have Emre Apa to customers. 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