Komatsu launches Smart Construction Retrofit Kit

Belinda Smart

05 July 2022

Komatsu in the UK has launched the Smart Construction Retrofit Kit – a machine guidance system for mixed fleet use - and is targeting partners including rental companies to help pilot the project. IRN Editor Belinda Smart visited the Komatsu facility in Birtley, Northumbria in late June, to find out more.

At Komatsu UK’s facility in Birtley, near Newcastle, where the OEM manufactures medium and large excavators, machines are arrayed expectantly around a demonstration area, one part of which has been hived off for trialling “smart” equipment.

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