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Innovative Iron Award: Bobcat’s New Telescoping L35 Small Articulated Loader Is Its Most Powerful Yet
Keith Gribbins
January 2, 2026
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Electric Equipment Hyundai HX19e
Innovative Iron Award: Hyundai’s HX19e Electric Mini Excavator Has Serious Battery Capacity
December 30, 2025
Utility Vehicles
Innovative Iron Award: GEM eX Brings Street Legality to a True Electric Work UTV
December 29, 2025
Mini Excavators New Holland E42D mini excavator with hammer attachment near rocks
Innovative Iron Award: New Holland’s D-Series Mini Excavators Go In-House and Get It Right
December 23, 2025
Compact Tool Carriers Vermeer ML180 mini loader carrying a pallet of sod
Innovative Iron Award: Vermeer’s ML180 Mini Skid Steer Concept Boasts EH Controls and an Air-Ride Operator Platform
December 22, 2025
Trucks Mecalac Revotruck
Innovative Iron Award: Mecalac’s Revotruck Is a Game-Changer for Site Dumpers

Compact Equipment’s annual Innovative Iron Awards spotlight the year’s most game-changing compact machines, attachment...

December 19, 2025
Compact Track Loaders JCB 4TS Teleckid track loader holding up a piece of concrete pipe
Innovative Iron Award: JCB’s 4TS-8T Teleskid Lifts Track Loaders to New Heights

Compact Equipment’s annual Innovative Iron Awards spotlight the year’s most game-changing compact machines, attachment...

December 17, 2025
Mini Excavators Caterpillar 303.5 mini excavator digging in the dirt 2
Innovative Iron Award: Software Update Boosts Speed and Productivity for Cat’s 303.5 CR Mini Excavator

The company just announced at Utility Expo last week that its next generation compact radius 303.5 CR mini hydraulic excavator can get a not...

December 16, 2025
Compact Tool Carriers Ditch Witch's SK1000 Stand-On Skid Steer lifting dirt and hay
Innovative Iron Award: Ditch Witch’s SK1000 Pushes Stand-On Skid Steer Power Forward

Ditch Witch added real muscle to the ultra popular 1,000-lb operating capacity class in 2025 with the SK1000....

December 15, 2025
Electric Equipment Toro buggy
Innovative Iron Award: Toro Ultra Buggy e2500-THL Elevates Electric Material Handling

Compact Equipment’s annual Innovative Iron Awards spotlight the year’s most game-changing compact machines, attachment...

December 11, 2025
Compact Tractors Kubota Grand L Series tractors
Innovative Iron Award: Kubota’s Grand L70 Series Tractor Series

A busy year of tractor launches culminated last week with Kubota announcing its new Grand L70 Series of compact utility tractors at the comp...

December 10, 2025
Utility Vehicles John Deere Gator GX Electric utility vehicle in a warehouse
Innovative Iron Award: John Deere Gator GX and GX Crew Electric Utility Vehicles

Photos provided by John Deere. Compact Equipment’s annual Innovative Iron Awards spotlight the year’s most game-changi...

December 8, 2025
Compact Track Loaders Takeuchi TL11R3 compact track loader cutting grass
Innovative Iron Award: Takeuchi’s TL11R3 Compact Track Loader

At its Media Days in Georgia, the company rolled out its next generation of CTLs — the TL11R3 — a loader built to prove the brand can st...

December 4, 2025
Compact Track Loaders Manitou's New Large frame skid steers and compact track loaders
Innovative Iron Award: Manitou’s Large-Frame Skid Steers and Compact Track Loaders

Manitou launched three new skid steers and two compact track loaders, all built on a fresh large-frame platform....

December 3, 2025
Business and Software
ICYMI: Another Round of Innovative Iron Award Winners

Happy New Year! Although we’ve turned the calendar on 2024, I wanted to take a moment to round up and acknowledge the rest of our Inno...

January 3, 2025
Telehandlers JLG E313 Electric Telehandler
Innovative Iron Award: JLG’s E313 Electric Compact Telehandler

The off-highway equipment industry has made significant strides in 2024, introducing machines that are smarter, greener and more efficient a...

December 30, 2024