An electric compact excavator was airlifted to a summit in the Swiss Alps to help rebuild one of the world’s most iconic cable car routes – because diesel machines aren’t up to the job. Volvo ...

Cable-operated crawler cranes and excavators used to be a familiar sight on construction jobs until the 1960s. They reigned for four decades following World War I, performing excavation tasks with ...

The first Skooper was used on the hybrid Koehring 205 in 1957 and quadrupled the bucket capacity. In 1963, Koehring introduced its first full-hydraulic excavator, the 505 Skooper, which was a 40-ton ...