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Spanish manufacturer AUSA said sales in the first half of the year increased by 35.2% compared to the same period in 2010 with exports increasing by 58%. Exports represented 72.8% of its business in the period.

UK site dumper specialist Thwaites will show its 300 kg capacity micro dumper at the IRE show, along with three other small models from its dumper range.

A new material levelling attachment for site dumpers is being launched by a UK contractor and plant hirer.

Wordsworth Holdings, the UK company that owns Barford Site Dumpers and Fruehauf tipper trailers, has gone into administration.

Terex’s Aerial Work Platforms division has sold off two of its non-AWP product lines: its generator line has been bought by Cummins Power Generation and the Terex power buggy range has been sold to Indy Equipment, an equipment dealer in Independence, Ohio. In both cases the sale price was undisclosed.

Wacker Neuson is adding an integrated operator’s cab with four of its site dumpers, the 3, 6, 9 and 10 t models (3001, 6001, 9001 and 1001+).

Wacker Neuson has redesigned its smallest tracked dumper, the 900 kg capacity TD9, with the unit now using a more powerful 9.4 kW Yanmar L100N diesel engine and a fuel tank with almost double the volume of the previous model.

Italy’s Tower Light srl has signed a distribution agreement with Caterpillar dealer Phoenix-Zeppelin for the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic markets. The agreement includes the Tower Light branded lighting towers and the Gladiator range that includes mini crawler-dumpers and site storage boxes.

Northern Ireland’s NC Engineering has launched a new 1 t site dumper, its smallest model yet. The hydrostatic drive HT1.0 joins the company’s range of 1.5 t, 6 t, 9 t and 10 t dumpers.

Bergmann is showing two, new 9000 kg capacity dumpers, the 2090 and 3009. They fill the gap between the German company's 6000 kg payload 2060 model and the 12000 kg capacity 3012, launched at Bauma 2007.

Spanish manufacturer Ausa will introduce a 2700 kg capacity, 6.1 m reach height telehandler at Intermat. The new Tauralift T 276 H model joins the smaller 2000 kg/4.2 m T 204 H model that was launched last year.

Muck-truck UK Ltd showed an electric powered version of its motorised mini-dumper at the recent Saltex groundcare exhibition in the UK.

Terex Corp is launching new 2 t capacity site dumpers that will eventually replace the much larger 2 t PS2000 and PT2000 models. Patrick Hill reports from the launch in the West Midlands of the UK.