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P & T Fanelli Excavations recently purchased a 5 tonne Miller PowerLatch 180° Tilt coupler so they could utilise their Kubota U55-4 excavator to work on all types of excavation projects including pad, clearings, dams, subdivisions and drai... Read Full Article

If it is possible and practicable to do so, why do employers still not comply to health and safety standards and lower the number of accidents that happen onsite when operating MEWP-type platforms?According to recent studies from the HSE,... Read Full Article

CASE Construction Equipment dealer Dennis Barnfield Ltd. has recently completed the sale of 12 excavators to Ruttle Plant Hire. This represents Ruttle’s third order of multiple CASE excavators in the last year, the latest of which is destine... Read Full Article

A family run farming and agricultural contracting business, located at Lochmaben near Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway, has recently purchased a bespoke specified Volvo L70H ‘Ag Spec’ to enhance two important areas of its activit... Read Full Article

British Precast is the trade association for precast concrete manufacturers and members of the supply chain. The main aims of the federation are to promote precast concrete in the construction market; to disseminate information, through a range of... Read Full Article

Continuing its long-established relationship with Bell Equipment, Chepstow Plant has announced the purchase of 14 new E-series trucks, increasing the contractor’s substantial Bell fleet to thirty machines.Ten B30Es and four B40Es jo... Read Full Article

McCormack Demolition, based near Belfast, Northern Ireland, has just taken receipt of the first Stage V CASE machine sold in Ireland. The CASE CX90D excavator was prepared and sold by CASE dealer Cowan Bros NI Ltd, also based near Belfast.... Read Full Article

New Video Shows How Simple it is to Remotely Control LoadersBobcat is a major player worldwide in the attachment market. For the company’s market-leading range of compact loaders, the attachment range has just been expanded... Read Full Article

Following a successful 12-year relationship with LDH Plant in South Wales, CASE has expanded the partnership to a new LDH Plant facility in Middlesbrough. The large, recently opened site will sell the full line of CASE products, as well as the ent... Read Full Article

Murphy Plant, part of the infrastructure company J. Murphy & Sons Limited, is continuing to make further major investments in lighting towers from Trime UK Limited.This latest order is for thirty X-ECO LED and ten X-HYBRID lighting se... Read Full Article

A new JET-FEED™ Garnet Delivery System from Flexicon automatically feeds garnet directly from bulk bags to waterjet cutters, eliminating worker fatigue, potential injury, labour, spillag... Read Full Article

DTH Plant Hire Ltd of Thurcaston, Leicester is the first to take delivery of Volvo Construction Equipment’s latest offering in the 20 tonne class of excavator with two new Volvo EC200Es... Having had its global debut ... Read Full Article

A fleet of JCB Loadall 540-140 telescopic handlers is providing an essential material handling solution to the UK’s largest infrastructure project. Operated by Bylor, a joint venture between French construction company Bouygues Travaux Publi... Read Full Article

Doosan has launched the company’s first Stage V medium size crawler excavator – the new DX300LC-7 30 tonne model. This new ‘-7’ model offers an unmatched combination of high performance, operating features, fuel efficiency,... Read Full Article

JCB has made manufacturing history by going into full production with the construction industry’s first fully electric mini excavator – with more than 50 machines already delivered. The 19C-1E models - JCB’s f... Read Full Article

JCB set new records for turnover, machine sales and earnings in 2018 as global markets for construction equipment and agricultural machinery remained strong, the company announced today. Staffordshire-based JCB revealed that it... Read Full Article

Renowned for its determined commitment to ‘Meeting Hire Demands’ by delivering exactly what the customer wants, plant and equipment hire specialist, L Lynch Plant Hire & Haulage has chosen to expand its extensive fleet with the add... Read Full Article

Genny Hire Limited, the Aberdeen based hirer of power generation, lighting towers and associated equipment have begun a process to upgrade their fleet of lighting towers, with the purchase of ten X-ECO LED sets from Trime UK Limited.These... Read Full Article

Oil is the lifeblood of a machine. Regular checks help monitor its health, which is vital for maintaining maximum uptime and and minimum total cost of ownership...It increases profitsOil analysis is an u... Read Full Article

Miller UK invited HUB-4 along to their production facility in Northumberland to take a more detailed look at the new range of GTS & GTX Couplers. As the inventors of the world’s first ever fully automatic coupler, twin-lock and fully cas... Read Full Article