Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

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

Based in West Lothian, Scotland, Gordon Bow Plant Hire Ltd. have recently rejuvenated their fleet, and this recent purchase comes as part of their £5M investment programme.The new fourteen tonne excavators all kitted with Miller att... Read Full Article

Today, LiuGong held it’s 1st Global Customer Day in Liuzhou with the theme of “Building Our Business Together”. In this 2-day event, more than 300 guests, customers, key accounts and dealers from 41 countries gathered together to... Read Full Article

A new BULK-OUT® Model BFF Bulk Bag Discharger features a steel safety cage to prevent contact with moving parts during operation and automated unloading of ... Read Full Article

JCB is proving a driving force in supporting the new Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) Programme on the Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Estate (SHRE) in the East Midlands.The Black Stork Charity, which runs the DNRC Progra... Read Full Article

November 16, 2019 – Stalowa Wola, Poland...During 14-16 November, LiuGong Europe held 2019 European Dealer Conference in Poland, where its headquartered for European operations, with the theme of “Vision 2020”. A total o... Read Full Article

CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2020 is North America’s largest construction trade show for the asphalt, aggregates, concrete, earthmoving, lifting, mining, utilities and related industries – set for March 10-14 in Las Vegas, USA.“The s... Read Full Article

Gordon Bow Plant Hire Ltd of Broxburn, West Lothian, has added ten new Volvo EC140E excavators for the very first time, as part of a significant £5M investment programme in its fleet rejuvenation and general operations...  ... Read Full Article

Taking place throughout most of November, bidding is underway in an on-line charity auction of a new Doosan DX10z 1 tonne mini-excavator organised by Maskinia, the Authorised Doosan Construction Equipment Dealer in Sweden, to raise funds to fight ... Read Full Article

MTS Plant, the equipment sales and rental specialist, has added the latest models from Yanmar’s 2019 compact portfolio to its growing hire fleet. Available through its depots in West Yorkshire, Lancashire, Co. Durham and Scotland, operators ... Read Full Article