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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is launching a crack-down on the waste and recycling sector this autumn with the aim of rooting out firms that are failing to protect employees’ health.... Read Full Article

Bruks Siwertell has secured repeat business from US company Martin Operating Partnership, in Beaumont, Texas, in the form of a new ship loader capable of safely and reliably handling sulfur prill at high capacities.“There can be no ... Read Full Article

Terex Trucks’ dealer PT United Equipment Indonesia (Uniquip) will exhibit the TA400 articulated hauler on their stand OS 28 at the Mining Indonesia trade show in Jakarta this week...Terex Trucks’ TA400 – ... Read Full Article

Remaining at the forefront of the industry, Newtownabbey based Sleator Plant are thrilled to officially announce their brand new SANY dealership.The Sleator Plant team are delighted to be adding the SANY range of tracked ... Read Full Article

Rodney Aggregates Supplies use a load volume scanner (LVS) in their Whangaripo Quarry north-east of Warkworth, New Zealand, to minimise profit loss due to carry-back on their overburden stripping programmes.Daniel Le Roux, Business Manage... Read Full Article

Founded in Mexico in 1906, CEMEX has grown from a small regional player to one of the world’s top companies in the global cement industry. A significant part of this development was the acquisition of RMC in 2005 and today CEMEX is one of th... Read Full Article

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

Binn Group is Scotland’s leading independent provider of integrated recycling and resource management services. Their range of services focus on re... Read Full Article

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has published a new guide, ‘Avoiding Contact with Moving Machinery and Isolation’ to assist supervisors and managers on site.MPA's Health & Safety Committee identified contac... Read Full Article

Material weighing the equivalent of more than 200 elephants was diverted from landfill when the University of Northampton relocated to a new campus, a report has revealed.The University closed its Park Campus, in Kingsthorpe, and moved... 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

Continuing a relationship that’s been in place since 2003, established plant operator Earthline has secured the purchase of two additional L2106 Wheeled Loaders, and a further B30E ADT, expanding the Bell Equipment element of its fleet to 16... 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

Following exceptional growth in business, OTR tyre supplier, Tyre Boss, has upscaled and moved into a new premises that combines a larger warehouse with office facilities; bringing all operations under one roof. The move is a wholly positive one f... 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

Andusia have launched a series of films aimed at those in the waste industry including MRF’s, EfW facilities and UK plant developers. The films have been created to show what happens behind-the-scenes to the UK’s waste when it is conve... 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

Lincolnshire Energy from Waste (EfW) facility has reached the huge milestone of processing one million tonnes of waste – reducing the amount going to landfill by around 93 percent, and converting it... 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

Team members at Casepak’s Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) are starring in a new campaign by Leicestershire County Council (LCC) aimed at encouraging ... Read Full Article