Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

Montabert, one of the most renowned and respected names in rock breaking attachments, is now a Komatsu-owned company.Whilst continuing to make its traditional products in their iconic green colour scheme, selling them through its long-sta... Read Full Article

N.E Surfacing Ltd of Rayne, Essex, has just purchased a second Volvo P6870C wheeled paver, replacing its three year-old predecessor...“We’ve been very pleased with the performance and reliability of the P6870C over th... Read Full Article

RSG Structures Ltd were recently contracted to undertake construction of a new bunker facility for a client in Stoke, which is part of a larger contract involving demolition and rebuild. The bunker was to have very durable 6.4m high walls and was ... Read Full Article

CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2020, the largest trade show in North America for construction, concrete, aggregates, asphalt, earthmoving, lifting, mining, utilities and related industries is just weeks away from opening. More than 2.5 million square feet ... Read Full Article

Improve your ability to design and troubleshoot pneumatic conveying systems.These courses aim to provide a better understanding of potential problems and how to make your p... Read Full Article

Tributes have been paid to a former JCB employee who joined the company as a teaboy and rose through the ranks to become a director. Bill Hirst MBE - who was the third person recruited by JCB in 1947 - passed away last night (Sunday,... Read Full Article

When Stig Engström first saw an excavator quick hitch that was able to tilt and rotate, he realised immediately that the product would change the world of excavation. In 1990, he formed the company Engcon, and now 30 years later Stig Engs... Read Full Article

FW Bau, the construction company based in Salzhemmendorf in Germany, has used a Doosan DX255LC excavator to dismantle a concrete tank at a sewage treatment plant at Malente in Schleswig-Holstein.This is not the only project where the comp... Read Full Article

The Construction Equipment Association (CEA) has announced the venue and dates for the next Plantworx trade show. The 5 th biennial construction machinery exhibition will be held on 15-17 June 2021, at the East of England Arena and Even... Read Full Article

A company which helps JCB customers to buy their machines has set itself a golden charity goal in celebration of 50 years in business. JCB Finance – one of the biggest lenders to the UK’s construction and agricultural industry &... Read Full Article

JCB is set to reduce production levels at UK factories due to anticipated component shortages from Chinese suppliers impacted by the coronavirus outbreak, the company announced today. The move will mean a shorter working week for aro... Read Full Article

It’s been less than a year since Sarah and Christopher Cookson tragically lost their son Carter who was born prematurely on Boxing Day, 2018. Within the first hours of his life the beloved baby suffered three cardiac arrests and consequently... Read Full Article

OilQuick's biggest news this year is, of course, the launch of their new tiltrotator series, OQTR-E. OilQuick has launched it as ”Doubly world-leading” and ”The best of both worlds”. When you know the background of OQTR-E y... 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-carbo... Read Full Article

An exceptional machine: The LH 150 ET Gantry Port Litronic is not only the first electrically-operated port handling machine in its weight class. It is also the world's largest electrically-operated Liebherr port handling machi... Read Full Article

The Bobcat Advanced Selectable Auxiliary Control (A-SAC) System developed for the company’s R-Series mini-excavators from 2-4 tonne has won a ‘Technical Innovation Award’ from the jury for the Samoter Innovation Awards 2020. The ... Read Full Article

Strömsund, Sweden was where Engcon was founded and remains the site of it’s tiltrotator development and production facilities. As a world-leading tiltrotator manufacturer Engcon continues to grow, recruiting 20 key strategic positio... Read Full Article

Euro Auctions, record breaking auctioneers of industrial plant, construction and agricultural machinery, starts 2020 with a bang and a sale that sees over 5,200 lots go over the new sales ramp at Euro... Read Full Article

One of the UK’s leading plant hirers has added another 30 new JCB Loadall telescopic handlers to its fleet as part of a massive investment in over 300 JCB machines worth nearly £16 million.Ipswich-based TRU Plant has taken del... Read Full Article

 …in the shape of 3 reduced swing excavators from Volvo.Breaking with tradition, the Aberdeenshire-based civil engineering and groundworks contractor has added two new reduced swing Volvo ECR235Es and an ECR35... Read Full Article