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At Bauma earlier this year the world saw the launch of Komatsu’s new PC360LCi-11 intelligent excavator which is the first excavator in the 36-tonne weight class, factory integrated with a 3D semi-automatic system. The first of these excavato... Read Full Article

Building materials supplier CEMEX has started using trucks with non-tipping belt trailers on its clay supply route between Southam Quarry and Rugby Cement Plant. These offer considerable safety and efficiency benefits.Thanks to the convey... Read Full Article

The Millerhill recycling and energy recovery centre (RERC) officially opened today (20 September 2019). The City of Edinburgh Council and Midlothian Council developed the £142m state-of-art fa... Read Full Article

A third-generation family-run business that achieved Zero Waste to Landfill over thirteen years ago, has further boosted its commitment to the environment with an RDF shredder from UNTHA.Based in Staffordshire, briers has had a genuine ec... Read Full Article

In 2015 Cementownia Warta was the first Polish company to make the decision to install an AUMUND Arched Plate Conveyor, for hopper discharge of clinker and sticky raw materials such as natural gypsum. Just one year later AUMUND supplied a further ... Read Full Article

One of the first electric mini diggers to roll off JCB's production line has been pressed straight into service on one of Europe's biggest and most prestigious infrastructure projects.The JCB 19C-1E was snapped up by leading plant hire fi... Read Full Article

Doosan and Engcon have entered into an agreement regarding increased collaboration in Europe. The first Doosan excavators factory-fitted to be equipped with Engcon’s tiltrotators, control systems and hitches are being delivered during th... Read Full Article

… will be in the eating,” says Tony Iles, Managing Director of Tonic Construction as the company chooses Volvo excavators for the very first time... Breaking with tradition, the Swindon based civil engineering a... Read Full Article

Leading construction and infrastructure player Aggregate Industries, working in collaboration with the A14 Integrated Delivery Team, has laid its millionth tonne of material on Highways Englan... Read Full Article

PD Ports, one of t... Read Full Article

More than a dozen representatives from the UK’s National Parks have visited Tarmac’s Swinden Quarry in North Yorkshire to learn more about the importance of quarrying in the Yorkshire Da... Read Full Article

Since purchasing his first Volvo articulated hauler back in 1990, Martyn Ward, managing director of Ward Plant Limited, Carnwath, South Lanarkshire continues to add Volvo articulated haulers and excavators to his plant fleet.“In my ... Read Full Article

Aggregate Industries has opened its second ready mix concrete plant in Greater Manchester, in order to cater to rapidly growing demand in the area.The new high-capacity site – conveni... Read Full Article

A British athlete who triple jumps further than the fully extended boom on one of JCB’s biggest Loadalls has an extra spring in his step today – after landing a sponsorship deal from digger maker JCB.Ben Williams, 27, of Newca... Read Full Article

Doosan Construction Equipment is launching the new DA30-7 and DA45-7 Stage V compliant articulated dump trucks (ADTs). The new DA30-7 and DA45-7 replace the previous DA30-5 and DA40-5 Stage IV models, respectively. The DA30-7 has a payload of 28 t... Read Full Article

The University of Birmingham has purchased a laboratory-sized Eddy Current Separator and Drum Magnet modular syst... Read Full Article

RJT Excavations Ltd of Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders continues to invest in Volvo Construction Equipment products by taking delivery of a further four excavators for its plant fleet...These most recent additions to RJT Excavat... Read Full Article

Norris Skips, based in Orpington, is a well-established commercial waste business operating three waste transfer stations across London. With leading recycling rates in the area the company also off... Read Full Article

It may be stating the obvious that if the storage and handling steps in bulk materials manufacture processes do not function efficiently, then the process will be directly impacted upon.But, however obvi... Read Full Article

 “Is there a more spectacular sight than a 75-ton excavator at work in a lava trench?” wrote board member Cornelius Kirsche on AG für Steinindustrie’s Facebook page in March. “The latest addition to our portfolio ... Read Full Article