Happy Birthday to LOCOSTRA project!!
The project started one year ago and the tractor is almost ready..
We would like to thank very much indeed all the partners and people who have been collaborating with us until now. So thanks a million to:
Matteo Zoppi, Vittorio Belotti, Paolone Barigelli Calcari, Francesca Bagnoli (University of Genova), Gianni e Andreina Polentes (Pierre Trattori), Andy Smith (AVS Mine Action Consultants), Ed Pennington Ridge (Elegant Design), Mr. Ross Macmillan (University of Melbourne), prof. Snobar (University of Jordan), Danilo Coppe e Cristina Pomponi (Istituto Ricerche Esplosivistiche), Gil Emantaev (Emaro student), Per Håkon Breivik, Stephen Bryant, Heinie Truter (Norwegian People's Aid), SIMVAR, FAE - Advanced Shredding Technologies and the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade and the Italian Minsitry for Econcomic Development.
Our recent achievements are:
- The second test on the refined version of blast resistant wheel on the 12th of November 2010 (soon news on the webpage)
- The first test on remote control
- The agreement with FAE for testing one of their vegetation cutting tools with the tractor in Jordan
- An agricultural derived mine sweeping tools built by Mr Ross Macmillan at the University of Melbourne
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Welcome to Locostra (Low-cost Tractors for Humanitarian Demining) project co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade.
The main requirement we are trying to fulfill is to produce a machine costing 50.000€, safe and reliable to perform ground processing in humanitarian demining.
