The development of road infrastructure in India is gaining great momentum. Roads and highways sector has been and continues to be one of the key drivers for the growth of the infrastructure sector in India. The government has approved an estimated budget of Rs 7 trillion, which includes building of Bharatmala Pariyojana with a Rs 5.35 trillion for 34,800 km and Rs 1.57 trillion for 48,877 km of roads.  The market for roads and highways is projected to exhibit a CAGR of 36.16 per cent during 2016-2025, as per industry report. This provides the positive outlook for the industry which has attracted several private players to venture into the road infrastructure space in various capacities as well as at various stages of road infrastructure construction.

The government’s policy to increase private sector participation has proved to be a boon for the infrastructure industry with a large number of private players entering the business through the PPP model. With the Government permitting 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in the road sector, several foreign companies have formed partnerships with Indian players to capitalise on the sector’s growth.

The Indian construction equipment revenues are expected to cross $ 23 billion. The figures give a fair idea about the growth of construction equipment market which has gained momentum after the arrival of foreign players who have stressed upon leveraging the advancements in the technology for manufacturing next-generation equipments for the progressive Indian construction sector.

Advanced offering in the road construction equipment segments:

ACE motor graders

Action Construction Equipment Ltd has a full range of compaction equipment, soil compactors and tandem rollers. In motor graders, ACE offers 14-tonne and 15-tonne variants, with standard ROPS cabin, rooftop air-conditioner, additional cabin top front and rear lights, centralised lubrication system.

ACE motor grader comes with Cummins 6-cylinder, in-line, water cooled, direct injection, turbo charged after cooled diesel engine. These high torque engines provide excellent fuel economy and durability.

ACE graders are fitted with auto lock, no spin, anti-slide differential, heavy duty balance box and roller chain that offers excellent serviceability and ease of maintenance.

Apollo’s fixed form concrete road pavers

Apollo Inffratech Pvt. Ltd manufacturers high-quality concrete construction equipment – such as concrete batching plants, dry batching plant, dry mix plant, fixed form concrete road paver, transit mixers, pipe making machines, cage welding and block making machine, slipform concrete road pavers, concrete equipment and related spares – provides Indian infrastructure companies with International standards and global technological breakthroughs in construction industry.

KYB-Conmat batching plant

KYB-Conmat’s hi-tech, higher capacity batching plant with support equipment which compiles tender specs contributes the most advanced offering in the road construction equipment segment which contains 90, 120, 160, 200 and 240 cu.m per hour capacity batching plant.

The uniqueness about this infra-series batching plant is its in-line configuration due to which very less foundation is required and twin-shaft mixer technology, which is the latest technology in mixing, through which homogeneous mixing can be achieved in a very less time. It is a rugged, accurate, productive and dependable plant.

CASE 1107EX Soil compactor

CASE India offers the most advanced technological products which are suited to the basic Indian requirements of high-fuel efficiency and productivity. The CASE 1107EX is available with features such as the compaction meter through which customers can check frequency, amplitude and ICV value in compactor meter. This compactor meter will give indication to operator when desired compaction is achieved and also give a warning signal in case of over compaction. This will save fuel as well as time for the customer.

Hyundai R140 W-9S wheel excavator

Hyundai Construction Equipment India’s R140 W -9S is a 14-tonne class wheeled excavator for concrete road application. The machine is introduced with the concept of ‘Think Beyond’ the backhoe loader. The unique benefit of using a wheeled excavator in place of backhoe loader in concrete laying process at PQC stage is its 360 degree reach, higher power and bucket capacity to enhance speed, efficiency and overall cost of concrete laying.

Hyundai R140 W-9S is a 9 series excavator equipped with enhanced safety features, Hi Mate system for remotely monitoring the performance of machine and unique CAPO system for improving fuel efficiency of the machine.

JCB India’s VMT330 Mini Tandem Roller

JCB India offers the VMT330 Mini Tandem Roller and The VMT860eco Tandem Roller in its compactor range. The VMT330 Mini Tandem Roller is best suited for applications such as highway road shoulders, retaining the walls of flyovers, for the compaction of road shoulders, footpaths, trenches, service roads, industrial and residential columns and rural roads.

Maxmech Wet Mix Macadam Plant

Maxmech Wet Mix Macadam Plant (MWMP) is an application designed product built as per M.O.S.T. specifications for achieving homogeneous mix material of WMM, CTAB, and GST layer to prepare sub-base or base in road projects. MWMP are available in various capacities in tonne per hour, i.e. 120 TPH, 160 TPH, 200 TPH, 250 TPH and 350 TPH.

Schwing Stetter Batching plants

Schwing Stetter offers Stetter Batching plants with the capacities of 120 cu.m – 140 cu.m. It has flexibility of being offered in in-line silo as well as compartment versions.

The company also offers concrete pavers in slip form version which is the latest state-of-the-art technology manufactured by GOMACO, USA who are world leaders in slip form technology. Two important models GP 2400 and GP 2600 are being offered in India which can cater to all national and state highway construction requirements.

Volvo CE’s P4370B ABG and P5320B ABG sensor paver models

Volvo CE offers pavers with sensors—the P4370B ABG and P5320B ABG.  Both models deliver maximum paving widths of 7 m, a paving output of 600 tonnes per hour and are powered by an 88 kW engine, which delivers high power with minimal noise and low fuel consumption. The P4370B ABG is a wheeled sensor paver which delivers a basic paving width of 2.5 m, while the P5320B ABG is a tracked sensor paver which delivers a basic paving width of again 2.5 m.

Kobelco’s Generation 10

The current Generation 10 from Kobelco sets new benchmarks in fuel efficiency, machine productivity and reliability giving the best-in-class, value-for-money performance. It has taken fuel efficiency to the next level with substantial savings over the previous models, which were already industry leaders in fuel economy.

WIRTGEN concrete slipform pavers

WIRTGEN concrete slipform pavers place heavy-duty road pavements and other traffic areas, such as airport runways or taxiways. Additional fields of application include the continuous production of poured-in-place concrete profiles, such as water gutters, safety barriers or kerbs in road construction. Texture curing machines create the specified surface texture of the finished concrete slab.