Tomra demonstrates long-term commitment to the UK with the opening of new service centre of excellence
TOMRA has opened its brand-new UK facility, TOMRA House, on the outskirts of Leicester in the East Midlands. The 1,800 sq feet double-storey facility has been designed as a Centre of Excellence for service provision to TOMRA’s customers acro... Read Full ArticleChepstow Plant International continues a year on year growth to its plant fleet with the addition of 103 new Volvos, including the first L350H loading shovel to be sold in Great Britain.
Chepstow Plant International has signed a deal with SMT GB for the supply of 103 machines for its mineral, aggregates and earthmoving fleet. The deal sees Chepstow Plant International continuing to grow its fleet as it moves forward w... Read Full ArticleTarmac, Balfour Beatty & Atkins join forces to debate inclusion
Tarmac has hosted a panel discussion on inclusion and diversity with senior management drawn from Tarmac, Balfour Beatty and Atkins.... Read Full ArticleDust controlled imports for the new agri-hub at the Port of Rosyth – the first SAMSON ecological hopper in the UK arrives for commissioning
The Port of Rosyth welcomed their new SAMSON ecological hopper into the port for commissioning. The hopper is the first of its kind in the UK and will be a key component of the port’s new agri-bulk... Read Full ArticleSchool recycling initiative launched to tackle the millions of old tech and metal waste stored in UK homes
Retailer and recycler join forces, this Recycling Week, to recover valuable and scarce metals from homes...A world leading metal and plastic recycler, EMR Metal ... Read Full ArticleVAT Reverse Charge Delay – JCB Finance stresses the time should be used to prepare, not ignore.
With less than a month to go the Government has announced a delay to the introduction of the VAT Reverse Charge to UK construction until October 2020.The one year extension will be a welcome relief to JCB Finance customers a... Read Full ArticleFirst Komatsu PC360LCI-11 in Europe is kitted with Miller attachments
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 ArticleAward-winning waste management & skip hire company recycles fleet
Award-winning skip hire and waste management company, Smiths (Gloucester) Ltd, has been practicing what it preaches and recycling its own skip and hook loader fleet, with a major vehicle refurbi... Read Full ArticleCEMEX partners with BMD Transport to introduce non-tipping trailers for clay supply
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 ArticleOfficial opening of Millerhill Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre set to boost Edinburgh and Midlothian Councils’ Zero Waste targets
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 ArticleCrusher feeding with AUMUND Arched Plate Conveyors
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 ArticleJCB Electric Mini brings zero emissions performance to HS2
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 ArticleDoosan and Engcon investing in Europe together
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 ArticleZero Waste to Landfill business boosts RDF capabilities with UNTHA shredder
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“The proof of the pudding…..
… 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 ArticlePD Ports crowned Business of the Year at annual excellence awards
PD Ports, one of t... Read Full ArticleAggregate Industries lays landmark millionth tonne on A14 project
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 ArticleTarmac welcomes delegates from the UK National Parks Conference to Swinden Quarry
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 ArticleAggregate Industries ups capacity with new Manchester concrete plant
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 ArticleVolvo package for Ward Plant
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