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Joining the ranks of members of The Materials Handling Engineers’ Association (MHEA) is Knutsford-based Chain + Conveyor Ltd.Starting as a family run firm over 25 years ago C... Read Full Article

At the recent Plantworx 2017 Exhibition, a new Doosan DX85R-3 mini-excavator was unveiled as the 250,000th CESAR marked machine in the UK. The official CESAR Scheme is owned by the UK’s Construction Equipment Association (CEA), the organiser... Read Full Article

A new TIP-TITE® Hydraulic Tipper from Flexicon discharges bulk solid materials from mobile bins at controlled rates into downstream process equipment or storage vessels free of dust.With lid... Read Full Article

Blue Machinery Central have recently sold a Powerscreen Premiertrak 400 mobile jaw crusher and Warrior 1400X screen to Northbank Demolition, which have both been working on the new A556 bypass pro... Read Full Article

BULKEX is attracting a high-profile list of speakers on a range of current issues, MHEA announced today.The first few speakers for the 2017 conference, Bulk Handling Today and Tomorrow, are set ... Read Full Article

Solids handling specialist, Ajax Equipment, recently hosted the Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ (IMechE) Process Industries Division North West Centre at its Bolton production facility for an evening promoting greater understanding of s... Read Full Article

Carmarthenshire based civil engineer and construction contractor E&TL Jones has revamped its existing fleet with a host of new Hyundai excavators.The Llandeilo company has swapped seven of its existing machines with brand new excavato... Read Full Article

LiuGong Machinery is pleased to announce Kevin Thieneman as Chairman of LiuGong North America and Senior Chief Director of Guangxi LiuGong Machinery.Mr. Thieneman has 24 years of experience in the construction equipment sector, most recen... Read Full Article

For the past 10 years AViTEQ has been represented by an agent company within the UK. Now AViTEQ Vibrationstechnik GmbH has established AViTEQ UK Ltd, the creation of this company will mean that UK customers will have direct contact for all their v... Read Full Article

GAR Contractors Ltd of Highbridge near Bridgwater in Somerset continues a long tradition of owning and operating Volvo machines with the addition of a new twenty two tonne EC220E crawler excavator.Setting himself up in business precisely ... Read Full Article

The new Miller PowerLatch Tilt coupler made a big impression on the thousands of visitors who braved the summer storms to attend the 2017 Plantworx Show.The biannual construction machinery show took place at Bruntingthorpe proving grounds... Read Full Article

Con Mech Engineers Ltd have become one of the first companies in our industry receive certification to the new upgraded ISO 9001:2015 quality management standard.The Certification applies to all three of the company’s business secto... Read Full Article

Designed for industrial applications, the RBI is the next phase in rubber-in-compression couplings.Rubber-in-compression couplings, such as the new RBI range from Renold Couplings, provide failsafe operation, protecting both staff and mac... Read Full Article

 As in previous years CASE will once again be exhibiting at Steinexpo which takes place in Europe’s biggest basalt quarry near to Homberg in Germany, from the 30th August to 2nd September.CASE’s line-up will incl... Read Full Article

There are more than 50,000 OSHA recordable incidents involving "struck by falling object" every year in the United States, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's one injury caused by a dropped object roughly every 10 minutes.1 Many of... Read Full Article

The 3rd biennial Plantworx Construction Machinery Show, hosted by the CEA (Construction Equipment Association), ended last week (8th June) following an extraordinary three-day action-packed event!The show opened to torrential rain but it ... Read Full Article

South Yorkshire based Neilson Hydraulics recently hosted the Bosch Hydraulics Roadshow at their premises in Sheffield, situated in close proximity to the world-class Advanced Manufacturing Park.The event was a huge success with representa... Read Full Article

One of the UK’s oldest digger drivers is turning heads on building sites after his boss ordered him a brand new limited edition JCB to mark his 70th birthday. John Storey has been operating diggers for more than 45 years and de... Read Full Article

Following the demise of the Tinsley rail marshalling yards in Sheffield and the subsequent development of a smaller yard in 2007, this was followed by the opening of the Sheffield International Rail Freight Terminal (SIFRT); with part of the remai... Read Full Article

JCB is boosting the fuel efficiency, productivity and performance of its heavier crawler excavators with the installation of Tier 4 Final diesel engines. The six-cylinder MTU 6R1000 - already proven in JCB’s largest wheeled loader - will be ... Read Full Article