Bennes-Marrel and its parent company, Benalu Group at Solutrans 2019 in Lyon held last November introduced a new steel / aluminium hybrid tipper specially designed and optimized for the transport of scrap metal called, Steeltrack.

The Benalu Group at Solutrans 2019 in Lyon held last November announced a group turnover of EUR170m and that it now employs more than 1,000 people in France and Poland.

The Krone Group (a producer of agricultural equipment and on-road trailing equipment (ie commercial vehicles - containers and container chassis, swap bodies and semi-trailers)) last month released record figures for Group operations for the year ending July 31, 2019.

‘Road’ was the name of a collaborative project with refrigerated trailer specialist, Jean CHEREAU SAS, four industrial partners and some institutional partners initiated to develop the reefer semi-trailer of the future: It was a three year project representing an investment of EUR5.5m that this has resulted in a four new products or areas of improvement for the Avranches-based company.

SAF-Holland GmbH has opened its new production plant in Yangzhou.

Tata Steel Europe is now manufacturing an abrasion resistant steel called Valast 450 specially developed for the construction industry involving rugged applications such as tipper bodies for trucks and trailers, bodies on refuse collection vehicles and excavator buckets.

Broshuis BV has launched its latest lightweight hydraulically steered and extendible flat trailer, that has two of three steering axles, and has a tare weight of just  8,400kg.

Specialist trailer builder, Van Hool NV, is initiating a new sales push of its container and swap body chassis in France.

Gray & Adams, a supplier of temperature-controlled semi-trailers and rigid vehicle bodywork, has designed an automated loading pod, built inside an extra-long 15.6m refrigerated body, which can hold up to 60 pallets at temperatures as low as -22 degrees C.

Silencio is the name the nitrogen refrigeration system by Frappa Group of Davezieux for its medium and heavy-duty refrigerated rigid trucks and semi-trailers.

Specialist heavy haulage trailer manufacturer, Nooteboom BV, revealed its latest generation of its Longrunner lightweight extendible flatbed trailer at the Solutrans exhibition in Lyon.

Dry van and refrigerated trailer builder, Great Dane, used the North America Commercial Vehicle Show in Atlanta last month to announce a technology partnership with Coretex of San Diego, a fleet management solutions supplier to roll out to the market Great Dane’s new FleetPulse smart trailer system.