Electrification of Earthmoving Machinery: The Italian Flop

The Italian Stalemate: High Costs, Poor Infrastructure, and Missed Incentives Over the past two years, the Italian earthmoving machinery market has seen a decline in overall sales, settling at around 20,988 units in 2024 (–12% compared to 2023), with less than 1%…

Why Tire Pressure on Heavy Machinery Matters for Your Business: A Guide to Boosting Efficiency and Safety

When it comes to heavy machinery, maintaining the correct tire pressure might seem like a minor detail, but it plays a crucial role in optimizing performance, ensuring safety, and reducing operational costs. In this post, we’ll explore why proper tire pressure is…

The best Japanese small tractors

The factors that make the small tractor a perfect fit for the Japanese agricultural model. In Japan, the use of small tractors is widespread for various reasons related to geography, farming, and land management. Farms are often small, fragmented, and spread over…

Hydraulic hammer for mini excavator. Features and Benefits

Hydraulic hammer – Introduction If you are looking for reliable and powerful equipment to demolish buildings, walls or any other structure, mini excavator hammers could be the ideal solution for you. These tools are designed to be used with mini-excavators, making them…

Record for the italian agriculture 4.0

New record for the Italian Agriculture 4.0 market, which in 2023 reached a turnover of two and a half billion euros, a 19 percent increase compared to the previous year. This is the finding of a recent study conducted by the Smart…

Fpt industrial sets a new record with the production of its 200,000th engine in Cordoba

FPT Industrial breaks previous record. FPT Industrial, the Iveco Group brand dedicated to the design, production, and sale of low-environmental impact powertrains, reached another significant milestone at its plant in Cordoba (Argentina) with the production of engine number 200,000, less than two…

European tractor registrations down

A total of 108,800 tractors were registered across Europe in the first six months of 2022, with 31,900 tractors of 37kW (50 hp) and under and 76,900 of 38kW and above. During the whole of 2022, a total of just under 215,000…

“The ‘diesel effect’ and how it damages hydraulic cylinders

As the name suggests, the concept of diesel effect refers to the combustion process in a diesel engine. Research by cylinder manufacturers in conjunction with leading hydraulic component manufacturers has made it possible to explain this phenomenon. Oil in a hydraulic system…