Category: Highlight

Adr, super brakes for super trailers

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After the celebrations marking its first 70 years of activity, the Adr Group showcased its latest product lines at EIMA, focusing the attention of manufacturers and visitors on the “Alpha” suspensions, the new “Hp” series brakes, and the agricultural “410E” brake. The Adr Group’s stand at EIMA was impressive, serving to celebrate the first 70 years of the Italian multinational’s operations and demonstrate its ongoing efforts to meet the future needs of agricultural mechanization. Three notable innovations were presented, two related to the braking sector and one focused on suspension…

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Combine harvester and forage harvester market 2023/2024 season, return to the past

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Furio Oldani Tough times for large self-propelled harvesters, particularly combine harvesters. The surge in registrations driven by government incentives introduced to address the economic challenges of Covid19 has come to an end with the depletion of available funds, giving way to a sharp decline. According to FederUnacoma sources, the market has dropped from 407 machines sold in the previous season to 275, a figure also confirmed by investigations conducted by industry publications. This sector’s crisis is tangible and likely not solely tied to the cessation of financial aid. Analyzing registration…

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Eima 2024, the event of innovation

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Furio Oldani 346,800 attendees, 63,100 of whom came from over 150 countries, gathered in Bologna between November 6 and 10 to admire, touch, and, in many cases, purchase over 60,000 products, including machinery and components showcased by more than 1,750 exhibitors. These certified figures confirm that the Bologna exposition of agricultural mechanics is not only a global benchmark event but also a key moment to reflect on potential technological advancements in agricultural mechanization, regardless of market conditions. The latter, in this case, were and still are not particularly promising due…

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Kubota buys the start-up “Bloomfield Robotics”

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Through its US holding company, Kubota North America Corporation, the Kubota group has purchased the American start-up Bloomfield Robotics, specialized in the acquisition and processing of images using artificial intelligence software to determine optimal harvest times and provide forecasting services of surrender. The vision systems are not influenced by ambient light and acquisitions can also be carried out at high speed without penalizing the details of each plane and its geolocation. According to the company, the solution allows knowing the ripening data and harvest times of the various products, will…

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Kohler Energy changes name to “Rehlko”

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Kohler Company: A Global Leader in Diverse Industries. Kohler Company is a multinational corporation headquartered in the town of Kohler, Wisconsin, USA. It operates across a wide range of industrial and construction sectors through its various subsidiaries and dedicated enterprises. Among these is Kohler Energy, a subgroup specializing in solutions for energy generation, management, and storage, which includes the Engine division, renowned for its production of internal combustion engines. Last May, the American investment firm Platinum Equity acquired the entire Kohler Energy subgroup from Kohler Company to form an independent…

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John Deere “3350 Riso” model by Britains, a tribute to the past

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This model was born from the memory of the first tractor an ex-tractor operator from Siziano, near Pavia, set foot on, marking the beginning of a career that continues even decades later. “You never forget your first love,” says a popular adage, and like most sayings, it holds a grain of truth. This sentiment resonates in the story of a small John Deere “3350” rice field edition, commissioned by Walter Pettinari, a tractor operator from Siziano, to commemorate the machine that launched his career decades ago. Walter’s start was a…

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Eima 2024, technical news in the name of innovation

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According to Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter, innovation represents “the practical application of an invention or discovery.” Accepting this 1911 definition, innovation becomes inseparably linked to commercialization, generating benefits that, in turn, drive social progress. Strategic steps This implies that behind every innovation lies a long series of scientific, technological, organizational, financial, and commercial processes that collectively bring a new product, technology, or service to the market, making it accessible to end users. Based on this understanding, one can only appreciate the continuous encouragement of innovation by FederUnacoma, the organization representing…

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Caron “Ec70”, a jolt of energy

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Over the last five years, electrification processes in the field of agricultural mechanization in Europe have evolved rapidly. The technological progress achieved with the experience gained in the automotive sector, the growing attention towards the environmental sustainability of production cycles and the increasingly stringent regulations for the reduction of polluting emissions have in fact accelerated this path, giving impetus to new solutions which through different architectures, hybrid, plug-in and full electric, also promise to improve the efficiency of the machines and reduce management costs. Wide margins for growth This has…

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Tractor market, something is moving

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If it is true that numbers don’t lie, it seems that the tractor market crisis is slowly resolving. Compared to the terrible “minus 25.05%” at the end of March 2024, the registrations at the end of September have indeed recovered nearly ten points, closing at “minus 15.52%” with a trend of further improvement. This is also confirmed by the outlook of the European Agricultural Machinery Association, abbreviated as “CEMA.” Every month, they survey European entrepreneurs to assess their concerns and expectations, and in October, they noted a slight increase in…

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The third way of laser weeding

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The perennial conflict between chemical and mechanical weedkillers could see a third solution win. If on the one hand the increasingly strong European environmental pressure constantly reduces the available active ingredients and on the other mechanical interventions require repetitive steps which however do not always prove effective, it could be laser weeding that can bring agricultural entrepreneurs to agreement. At least that’s what the US start-up Carbon Robotics thinks, having designed and developed “LaserWeeder”, a weeding equipment operated on the basis of an artificial intelligence system which, through 42 high-resolution…

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