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Production paused at a JCB factory today as the company said thanks to its workforce on winning one of the world’s most prestigious export awards.JCB Compact Products in Cheadle, Staffs, has won a Queen’s Award for Internation... Read Full Article

RM Group Services Ltd of Wolverhampton has launched RM Plant Services, a dedicated plant division of the parent group investing as it does so in a quantity of Volvo compact excavators – all supplied by Volvo Construction Equipment’s ut... Read Full Article

Terex Trucks has appointed Hitrac (1974) Inc. as its dealer in the Province of Manitoba, Canada. Hitrac will supply and support Terex Trucks’ full range of articulated dump trucks throughout the territory.Headquartered in Winnipeg a... Read Full Article

Hanson Cement’s bulk products division has made further senior promotions as part of the company’s commitment to customer service. John Doolan has been promoted to key account manager, while ... Read Full Article

Blue Spares is the essential provider of genuine OEM spare parts for the main market-leading distributorships of parent company Blue Group – Powerscreen and Doppstadt. Since inception some 13 years ago, Blue Spares has consistently made larg... Read Full Article

Oxford-based contract hire and leasing company Axis Fleet Management has struck a deal to provide an additional 50 new MAN tractor units to Freightliner. The units will be fully liveried with Freightliner’s distinctive logo and are to be del... Read Full Article

Kent-based Mark Luck Transport has acquired four new eight wheeler rigid tipper trucks, bringing its fleet to 45 vehicles. As standard the company specifies all of its new vehicles with Edbro tipping gear. These vehicles are no different, each bei... Read Full Article

Bollegraaf Recycling Solutions have appointed Trevor Smart as their Country Manager and Luc Mallinger as their UK Sales Manager to lead the development of Bollegraaf in the UK. Trevor and Luc both h... Read Full Article

To facilitate an expansion in trade, Associated British Ports (ABP) at Ipswich has placed Orders for the Supply of Five New Grabs from pALM Bulk Solutions Ltd... Read Full Article

Maintain your CPD records on the go...On 15th September, MPQC launched a unique ‘one stop’ service for member employees to maintain records of their Continuing Professional Development (CPD) whilst on the go. Ke... Read Full Article

The Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) has announced that the UK’s largest packaging compliance scheme, Valpak, has become the latest funding partner to join the MetalMatters ... Read Full Article

In a matter of weeks Volvo Construction Equipment will pit 20 of EMEA’s finest operators against each other in the epic battle of speed, precision and technique that is the Operators Club Final. The action will be streamed live on Facebook o... Read Full Article

CEMEX representatives visited Bobcat’s plant in Pontchâteau (Loire-Atlantique, France) this summer to place further orders for eight new Bobcat telehandlers. The visit followed the delivery of eight machines to various production sites... Read Full Article

Hyundai Heavy Industries and CNH Industrial ink exclusive strategic alliance Agreement for Mini Excavator Business.Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s largest shipbuilder and a leading construction equipment manufacturer, ha... Read Full Article

A new quarry at Cromwell, Lincolnshire has just started supplying high quality sand and gravel into the local market and the area around north Nottinghamshire.   The new 26.5 hectare site will provide approximately 200,000 tonne... Read Full Article

The EC750E crawler excavator from Volvo Construction Equipment features fuel efficiency innovations, delivering increased productivity and a winning performance, that helps ensure maximum return on investment.The EC750E from Volvo Constru... Read Full Article

Utranazz, the concrete equipment specialist, has further cemented its relationship with Croydon-based King Concrete, securing an order for: two HM12H-E Volumetric Concrete Mixers, four Standard Transit Mixers, two LS600 Concrete Line Pumps, a Mobi... Read Full Article

Having enhanced its extensive fleet last year with the procurement of four new Bell Equipment B50D Articulated Dump Trucks (ADTs), Kelston Sparkes Group has chosen to augment its already extensive taskforce with the addition of two further B50D ma... Read Full Article

Siwertell, part of Cargotec, has secured its fourth road-mobile unloader order from Turkish cement specialist, Muhammet Gümüstas. Three similar systems have been delivered to the same customer since 2012. However, this latest unloader wi... Read Full Article

A further 96 hectares of restored land at Hanson UK’s Needingworth quarry in Cambridgeshire has been handed over to the RSPB as part of a 30-year partnership project to create a wildlife nature reserve from a working sand and gravel quarry.... Read Full Article