Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

Direct Rail Services (DRS) has started a new groundbreaking rail service in a trial from Teesport to Manchester.The service is the first on this route to use the ultra-low IDA wagons, which allow the use of standard high-cube con... Read Full Article

DB Cargo UK has been awarded a new warrant by His Majesty King Charles III to maintain and operate the Royal Train.The Doncaster-based rail freight operator has now held the royal warrant since rail privatisation, marking more th... Read Full Article

A leading civil engineering and groundworks contractor has bought one of the first JCB DualDrive backhoe loaders in Scotland.Purchased by Greenlaw-based B&K Hume Groundworks from dealer Scot JCB, the brand new 4CX Pro DualDrive machin... Read Full Article

A new Trans Pennine rail freight link operating between Teesport and Manchester’s Trafford Park has successfully completed its first service.... Read Full Article

In the first tranche of rail services –100,000 kg of CO2 emissions saved150,000 lorry miles prevented2,320 lorry journeys taken off the roadDirect Rail Services (DRS) has begun moving ov... Read Full Article

Ecoblend, developed by Day Group, emerges as a pioneering brand leading the charge towards sustainable aggregates in construction projects. Currently distributed by Day Aggregates and GRS Roadstone, Ecoblend is set to transform materials resourcin... Read Full Article

The Port of Tilbury, a part of Forth Ports group, is situated on the UK’s most renowned river for the import and export of goods and services: the River Thames. Each year, the Port has a throughput of 16 million tonnes, making it the l... Read Full Article

DEVELON, formerly Doosan Construction Equipment, is pleased to announce the handover of the keys to its new headquarters in Germany and would like to thank ADLER Immobilien Investment for the very good and smooth cooperat... Read Full Article

Product, partnership and customer focus, digitalisation, responsibility: these are the topics that shape Liebherr’s appearance at bauma 2025On its 14,000 m2 booth, Liebherr is displaying more than 7... Read Full Article

Utranazz, Concrete Equipment Specialists, is delighted to announce that it has signed an exclusive distribution agreement for the UK with IMER Group for their range of concrete equipment. IMER Group, an Italian company, is renowned for its h... Read Full Article

FPT Industrial, the Iveco Group brand dedicated to the design, production, and sale of powertrains and solutions for on and off-road vehicles, as well as marine and power generation applications, is once again a key player for driving change. ... Read Full Article

Mecbo America, a division of Blastcrete Equipment LLC, announces the launch of the Beton Cap Series concre... Read Full Article

Bobcat has won major orders for 53 telehandlers, 63 PA12.7v portable air compressors and 127 compactors for the armed forces in the Netherlands. The telehandler and light compaction orders were secured by... Read Full Article

MKM Hire has celebrated the purchase of its 350th JCB machine as it continues its rapid expansion.MKM, the UK’s largest independent builders’ merchant, entered the rental sector in 2022 wit... Read Full Article

Fleet solutions provider, Fleetclear has announced the accomplishment of ISO/IEC 27001:2022 (ISO27001) - the internationally recognised standard for Information Security Management Systems (ISMS)...ISO27001 offers protection to o... Read Full Article

SENNEBOGEN has successfully loaded eight large machines onto a barge to transport them by water from Straubing via Antwerp to Charleston, South Carolina. The machine transport was carried out in close cooperation with the heavy haul company Ka... Read Full Article

Warwick Ward is the latest recruit to Sunward's dealer portfolio...One of Europe's largest stockists and suppliers of new and used earthmoving and waste recycling equipment and spare parts ... Read Full Article

Imagine a portable air compressor compact enough to fit on a standard trailer yet robust enough to power through the toughest geothermal drilling projects. That’s the X-Air+ 750-25, Atlas Copco’s latest innovation in its DrillAir famil... Read Full Article

CS Retail Construções is a renowned Portuguese company, a reference point in civil construction in the country, specialising in industrial sectors and in commercial/retail spaces and offices... Read Full Article

At the Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, we use many different processes and pieces of specialist equipment to characterise and test powders and particulates to identify why issues occur i... Read Full Article