Off-Highway

The interview with Steven Nendick, Cummins, at Agritechnica 2019. Last week we published the first part of the interview we recorded with Cummins’ Marketing and Communications Director in Hannover at the end of last year. The second part starts talking about markets. Then, there will be also room fo...

Volvo Penta D5 is the smallest engine in the range. It is a four-cylinder engine with almost 130 kW power and 810 Nm torque, employed by Shaktiman Tejas harvesters that have to chop the tough sugarcane at ground level on a giant sugarcane plantation in rural Gujarat, a state on the Western coast of ...

More than once we have turned to Steven Nendick, Marketing Communications Director at Cummins, asking him about the state-of-the-art of the company’s strategies and developments. This time, we focus our attention on Cummins approach to agriculture, of course talking about engines, market requirement...

Volvo Penta and ROPA, a leading agriculture equipment manufacturer, have been long working together, collaborating for the development of engines capable to push the machines made by the German manufacturer. One of them, the huge Tiger 6 beet harvester awarded with the Red Dot Design Award back in 2...

Yanmar and Carraro, two main characters of the specialized tractors environment, have recently relaunched a strong relationship. Yanmar and Carraro in the words of the Italian OEM We quote the Antonio Carraro official press release, just to well understand the reasons of this partnership: «A salient...

There’s a hydraulic system from Bosch Rexroth in the largest crane in the world. The SGC-250 crane, manufactured by Sarens, can lift 2,000 tons in a single movement over a distance of 100 meters. It has a maximum load capacity of 250.000 tons, which enable it to lift an astonishing 5.000 tons. Even ...

Deutz turns to China, as the Asian country is facing a rapid tightening of emissions regulations. Chinese legislators are making rapid progress indeed in this area, but what is often still missing are advanced drive systems capable of meeting the new standards.   The introduction of the China I...

MTU Stage V engines. Engines alone are not enough, apparently. Manufacturers focus their attention on what’s around them, not only in terms of components, but also in terms of services provided to their customers. Talking about Rolls-Royce and their MTU engines, the Series 1000, 1100, 1300 and 1500 ...

Two Cummins new 4-cylinder engines launched at Agritechnica. It was no longer than two years ago when Cummins introduced the 6-cylinder B6.7 Performance Series structural engines at the previous edition of Agritechnica, back in 2017. A ‘MAN’ IN RED? CUMMINS AND MAN ES At this year’s edit...

The integrated generator module ZF Terra+. The efforts aimed at reducing emissions in agriculture may include the whole powertrain of tractors. Not only the engine, then, but also transmissions and other key components. At Agritechnica, ZF has presented a solution for high and low-voltage systems fo...