Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

For almost 51 years, stevedoring company, ZHD Stevedores, based in Dordrecht in the Netherlands, has been using Bobcat skid-steer loaders to clear the holds of ships and to move material around so that the ... Read Full Article

A maintenance manager strives for efficiency at a leading UK cement works near London. He knows about cement production after working in the industry for nine years before serving as the plant’s maintenance manager where he looks after its e... Read Full Article

JCB is today stopping production at all of its UK manufacturing plants as disruption resulting from the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic causes an unprecedented reduction in global demand. The company is halting production for the rest... Read Full Article

G Simpson (Builders) Ltd of Beauly, near Inverness, has taken delivery of a zero swing Volvo ECR25D compact excavator complete with an Engcon Tiltrotator. The machine has been supplied by SMT GB’s utility equipment dealer for the north o... Read Full Article

W M Donald Ltd of Netherley, Stonehaven, has recently added a twenty-two tonne EC220E and a twenty-five tonne EC250E to its ever-expanding plant fleet...The groundworks and civil engineering firm is a longstanding user of Volvo c... Read Full Article

JCB today celebrated a unique milestone as its 750,000th backhoe loader rolled off the production line. The landmark machine was driven off the line at the company’s factory in Rocester, Staffordshire – the very location w... Read Full Article

Bobcat has appointed Peterborough-based RTC Plant Services Ltd (www.rtcplant.com) as the new Authorised Bobcat dealer for Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire in the UK. RTC is now re... Read Full Article

Tower Hamlets has become the first borough in London to rubber stamp a road made partly from old recycled tyres that would once have been destined for a landfill site.Working with Tarmac, the company behind the innovative technology, Towe... Read Full Article

Macaulay Askernish Ltd, a privately owned civil engineering contractor headquartered on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, has taken delivery of two new Volvo EC140E excavators for a dedicated 21 kilometre utilities contract on St... Read Full Article

Decision based on performance and versatilityA cost-effective machine and a comfortable working environmentThe family company Rokemann: serving customers for over 20 years"With its great versa... Read Full Article

The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has launched UK Concrete, a new public and political advocacy vehicle for the UK’s concrete industry.UK Concrete’s principle aim is to proactively engage with political stakeholders and p... Read Full Article

JCB is ending short time working at its UK factories and reverting to a five-day working pattern. Around 4,000 JCB and agency shop floor employees have been working a 34-hour week for the past fortnight due to anticipated compo... Read Full Article

Up to 150 m³ output capacity per hourOptimum construction site mixing plant due to mobile constructionFavourable transport thanks to container design with sea container approvalA highly mobile con... Read Full Article

Leading UK hire specialist Lynch Plant Hire & Haulage has benefitted from six-figure savings and a 30 percent reduction in fleet-related incidents. This was all achieved in the last year, following the implementation of Connexas Group’s ... Read Full Article

Under the themes of Technology, Innovation and Efficiency, Bobcat will present the very latest developments from the company at the Smopyc 2020 Exhibition in Zaragoza in Spain, including new compact track and skid-steer loaders, mini-excavators, t... Read Full Article

Scott Young & Sons of Lockerbie, Dumfries & Galloway, has taken delivery of a new bespoke sixteen-tonne Volvo EC160E for its general contracting business... Joining an existing EC160E and EC220E, a ne... Read Full Article

This edition will see MB Crusher America both at the demo area and in the centre hall.On March 10-14, 2020, at the Silver Lot - Booth #S5003 at Conexpo 2020, three of a kind will... Read Full Article

Back in July 2019 AUMUND Fördertechnik GmbH began increasing capacity in its engineering team; this signalled the start of new product design in conveying and transportation of alternative fuels. The en... Read Full Article

Centrocar, the exclusive importer for the Doosan Infracore Construction Equipment range in Spain, Portugal, Angola and Mozambique, will be showing a wide range of Doosan wheel loaders and excavators at the Smopyc 2020 Exhibition from 1-4 April 202... Read Full Article

Outdoor stand: Festival Grounds – F2658The Mecalac Group clinched its first sales in the United States in 2016 thanks to a partnership in Massachusetts. The following y... Read Full Article