Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

From their heyday in the 1970s, motor scrapers have slowly disappeared from the UK to be replaced by ADTs and excavators. The once prevalent behemoths were on every opencast and road job and were seen as the most cost efficient and fastest way... Read Full Article

We recently caught up with Rapid International at their County Armagh, Northern Ireland headquarters, where they discussed everything from upcoming new product launches to renovations and their approaching 50th anniversaryRapid... Read Full Article

One of the UK’s largest precast concrete firms has joined forces with a specialist hire company to create a long barrier wall to protect and defend a small village in Oxfordshire from flood waterTelford based Elite Precast Concrete ... Read Full Article

Following its global launch at this year’s INTERMAT exhibition (23-28 Apr), Mecalac Construction Equipment UK Ltd has revealed the full technical specifications of its eagerly-anticipated MDX cabbed site dumper range. A Stage IIIB-compliant ... Read Full Article

“We need a PMB for this job!” said the specifier. The assumption is that all polymer modified binders are same? This is a common misconception amongst contractors and unfortunately even specifiers! Bit... Read Full Article

Pirtek Belfast, part of the global Pirtek network, was among the big winners at the recent annual Plant & Civil Engineer Awards.It was presented with the prestigious ‘Excellence in Customer Service’ award, sponsored by Cro... Read Full Article

Liebherr recently unveiled its new 50 m truck-mounted concrete pump: the 50 M5 XXT. This is the latest addition to Liebherr’s rapidly growing portfolio of truck-mounted concrete pumps and with an operating weight of less than 40 tonnes and a... Read Full Article

Daniel Charles Construction Ltd of Dunholme, Lincolnshire, has added a trio of Volvo excavators for its expanding plant fleet in the guise of two, twenty-two tonne EC220Es and a twenty-five tonne EC250E.The groundworks and civil engineeri... Read Full Article

Teenager Blair Hughes has landed a dream job as a digger driver - and got straight behind the controls of a brand new excavator costing more than £100,000.Ever since he was a young boy Blair Hughes, 17 has wanted to operate machines... Read Full Article

Ickenham based plant hire and civil engineering contractor has opted for a new Volvo EC220E to coincide with a move to raise its profile in the Greater London plant hire market and expand its client portfolio.Michael Henry Civil Engineeri... Read Full Article

One of the UK’s largest builder’s merchants has invested in 500 new JCB machines worth more than £7 million for its Tool Hire division.        Travis Perkins has bought a fleet of JCB mini excavators ... Read Full Article

Hyundai Construction Equipment Europe has recently announced that the current South East England dealer Ernest Doe & Sons has extended their territory with the addition of West Sussex, Hampshire and Isle of Wight.Ernest Doe is the lon... Read Full Article

JCB’s new Northern Ireland dealer Dennison JCB has delivered its first machines to a long-standing JCB customer which set up business 33 years ago with just a single 3CX backhoe loader.Now a leading plant hirer and commercial proper... Read Full Article

David Fisher Contracting of Stenhousemuir, Larbert, has taken delivery of a Volvo EC140E with a second unit tentatively on order, thus continuing a tradition of owning and operating Volvo 14-tonne excavators.“We’ve been operat... Read Full Article

Blastcrete Equipment, LLC, a long-time manufacturer of shotcrete and gunite mixers and pumps, offers a Refractory Paddle Mixer that delivers fast mix times while working with mixtures that include aggregates up to a half-inch (13 millimeters) thic... Read Full Article

Kellands Plant Sales, part of the Mecalac dealer network, is celebrating the launch of its brand-new equipment depot in Cornwall with an exclusive customer open day. Taking place at the company’s new site in Camelford on 30 October 2018, the... Read Full Article

Ardent Hire Solutions, has placed a £9m order with Marubeni-Komatsu to supply PC138US (13T), PC210LC (21T) and PC360LC (36T) machines to further grow its large excavator fleet.Ardent’s machine fleet holding currently stands... Read Full Article

O Kinch Agricultural Contracting Ltd of Avon, near Chippenham, Wiltshire, has purchased a bespoke Volvo L70H for its farming and contracting businessThe 14- tonne L70H, equipped with agricultural wheels and tyres, single lever hydraulic c... Read Full Article

L. Lynch Plant Hire & Haulage Ltd. has built a reputation over the last 30 years for operating one of the safest, most cost effective and efficient plant hire companies in the UK.Now equipped with a large fleet of Komatsu machines, wh... Read Full Article

Aware of potential dust issues, a Council were investigating their options for Dust Suppression at their new 500m2 Road Waste Transfer Depot. Home to the storage and handling of road plainings and various ... Read Full Article