Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

Metal contamination can have a critical effect on processing lines. Unwanted metals not only result in costly damage to machinery, loss of productivity and downtime but can also impact a company’s reputation on product quality.Eriez... Read Full Article

Glendun Plant Sales, the Trime Group’s official dealer in Ireland, have ramped up their stocks of Trime X-ECO LED lighting towers, as their sales of Trime products continue to expandCommenting on this new order for thirty-six X-ECO ... Read Full Article

Leading name for plant truck sales across Ireland, TBF Thompson, has become the latest commercial and plant dealer to position itself as an official distributor of articulated dump trucks (ADTs), designed and manufactured by Bell Equipment... Read Full Article

Atlas Copco has appointed Coventry-based Vital Power Limited as authorised distributors for their complete QIS family of diesel generators. This includes the five most recently added models, ranging from 875 to 1420 kVA.These generators h... Read Full Article

Blastcrete Equipment LLC, a long-time manufacturer of shotcrete and gunite mixers and pumps, introduces the RS180 Mixer-Pump with variable speeds from 0-18 cubic yards per hour and long-distance and high-volume pumping capabilities. T... Read Full Article

Come September, one of Ireland’s best-known construction plant distributors, McHale Plant Sales will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its establishment in 1994.Founded in the 1950s by Michael McHale Senior, late father of the prese... Read Full Article

Engcon is setting the benchmark for operator and on-site safety and highlighting its commitment to ensuring the safest working environment for its customers by focusing solely on supplying its innovative and ultra-modern Q-Safe (QS) quick hitc... Read Full Article

Bromley based Standard Plant Hire Ltd has added ten Volvo fourteen tonne excavators to its plant fleet for the first time heralding its entry into hiring larger machines across the South East of England...The new Volvo additions,... Read Full Article

During the middle part of this decade the ready mixed concrete market recovered a significant amount of the ground lost as a result of the 2007 recession, returning to annual outputs of more than 25 million m3. However, the last two years ha... Read Full Article

Is the opinion of father and son team, Phil and William O’Rourke, proprietors of Portsmouth based O’Rourke Infrastructure Services Ltd (OIS) as they take delivery of their third Volvo P6870C wheeled paver...Establishe... Read Full Article

A leading manufacturer of construction products is revealing its business ‘secrets’ to help ensure organisations benefit from the best service.Elite Precast Concrete has become one of the biggest companies of its kind in the U... Read Full Article

Replacing his first EC140ELM purchased three years ago, Ben’s new charge is certainly a one-off, after making a long list of modifications and alterations to the standard factory offering to satisfy... Read Full Article

One of the UK’s leading modern plant and equipment specialists, Lynch Plant Hire & Haulage, is looking to further increase its operational efficiencies with the purchase of four Engcon tiltrotators.The plant hire firm has incorp... Read Full Article

Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group (NSCG) are in the top 10% of general further education colleges in the country for students aged 16 – 18. Both colleges offer a wide range of courses from A-levels to apprenticeships which are taught by ... Read Full Article

JCB today announced a $25 million investment in its Brazilian operations as the company gears up for growth. The investment was confirmed as JCB hosted the Governor of the State of São Paulo, João Doria at the company&r... Read Full Article

Elite Sheet Piling Ltd of Stoke on Trent has added a brand new forty tonne excavator to its fleet of piling machines and equipment in the guise of a Volvo EC380E...The EC380E was chosen my Managing Director Carl Ingram a... Read Full Article

Euro Auctions, the UK’s largest auctioneers of construction machinery and industrial equipment, announces a special unreserved ‘one day’ sale of ex-rental construction plant, machinery, access equipment and small... Read Full Article

The energy sector has undergone major transformation in the last number of years with increasingly restrictive legislative measures and associated fluctuations in the demand for certain fuels. The industry has been forced to pursue alternative fue... Read Full Article

LMBab operator Patrik Ekström says Volvo’s Dig Assist feature for excavators has improved his work life massively. Unique to Volvo, the user-friendly new system helps operators complete excavation tasks safely, accu... Read Full Article

Following the introduction of new emission standards earlier this year, CASE Construction Equipment announces the first European sale of its Stage V excavator range. The machine, a CASE CX90D, was sold by dealer Dennis Barnfield to engineeri... Read Full Article