Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

One of the UK’s leading manufacturers of precast concrete has teamed up with a new logistics provider.Elite Precast Concrete will work in partnership with flatbed haulage specialists Shropshire Express Deliveries to ensure its natio... Read Full Article

A new sanitary Model RCM36X9SS Rotary Continuous Mixer from Munson Machinery blends dry bulk solids with or without liquid add... Read Full Article

SMT GB has been appointed as the official distributor for K-Tec articulated hauler scraper boxes on mainland Great Britain with immediate effect...“We are delighted to have been appointed as the official distributor for a p... Read Full Article

If you are experiencing handling issues with your particulate materials, our series of short courses could help you find out why and how to resolve them.Common issues such as segregation, caking /lumping, degradation/attriti... Read Full Article

The CEMEX railhead at its Attercliffe site in Sheffield has received an incredible 2.5million tonnes of aggregates in the ten years since it has opened.Of this, over 1.3million tonnes has been supplied to our external customers; 1million ... Read Full Article

Considerable amounts of concreteLarge storage volume with low space requirementIndividually adapted concrete mix for each rock sectionTwo Liebherr Betomix 3.0 mixing plants produce concre... Read Full Article

Mick George Concrete is taking a leading role in the supply of low-carbon alternatives to the East Anglia and East Midlands construction industry, having dedicated a 100-tonne silo at its Cambridgeshire based batching plant to Cemfree, a low-c... Read Full Article

Coatstone Surfacing Ltd of Swindon, Wiltshire, has broken with tradition and purchased its very first Volvo P6870C wheeled paver for its fleet of road paving equipment...Joining a mixed fleet of road paving equipment, the P6870C ... Read Full Article

One of the leading plant hirers in England and Wales has invested in a massive fleet of 500 new JCB machines in a deal worth in excess of £10 million.ASHBROOK, which has headquarters in Congleton, Cheshire has taken delivery of the ... Read Full Article

JCB announced a double dose of festive cheer for its UK workforce today – a £500 Christmas bonus and a shop floor pay rise of 2.2%. Around 6,700 employees at JCB’s 11 plants across Staffordshire, Derbyshire an... Read Full Article

Blue Group are the leading provider of material processing equipment across the UK and Ireland, offering a range of products for the Quarry and Demolition, Energy, Recycling, Scrap and Port Indu... Read Full Article

One of the first new JCB 150X machines sold in Northern Ireland has been hailed as “the best machine in over 40 years” by an operator at a leading agricultural and groundworks contractor.Purchased by County Down-based J.D. O&r... Read Full Article

New Branding Growls Tough, Agile and Versatile...Bobcat has introduced a new branding identity which reflects the company’s iconic ‘One Tough Animal®’ brand message, while representing more powerf... Read Full Article

Quality and safety paramount in the purchasing decisionMachine configured to customer’s specific requirementsExcellent feedback about the machine in useBulle'R and Rental'R: The Rebelo brothers are con... Read Full Article

Electricity North West - providers of power to five million people - has invested in two brand new JCB electric mini excavators.The company has bought the two 19C-1E fully electric models to help maintain a staggering 44,000 kilome... Read Full Article

Hemel Hempstead-based company marks the milestone with a look forward at exciting technology trends such as digitalisation, electrification and artificial intelligence...27th November 2019: Atlas Copco... Read Full Article

Vale Canada Limited operates one of the largest integrated mining facilities in the world here, mining and processing ores containing nickel, copper and other metals.The company's Sudbury mining complex has been in operation for over 100 ... Read Full Article

Two new loading shovels have been supplied to James Jones & Sons Ltd for the company’s log handling activities at its Mosstodloch and Lockerbie sites, located in the north-east and south-west border areas of Scotland...... Read Full Article

Hertfordshire based Robert Swann first set up on his own in 1989, initially as a self-drive plant hire business. His very first machine was a 2.5 tonne Nissan mini excavator which proved to be rather unreliable and as Robert jokingly commented, &l... Read Full Article

LK Construction, the operated plant hire and ground works contractor, renowned for its archaeological excavation expertise, has bolstered its fleet with the purchase of three Bell Equipment B20E Articulated Dump Trucks, all within 16 months.... Read Full Article