Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

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

Forest of Dean-based building, groundworks and home development specialist, Bell Contracting, has invested in six state-of-the-art Mecalac 9MDX cabbed site dumpers. The nine-tonne payload models will be used for earthmoving applications in project... Read Full Article

Euro Auctions are accepting ‘outside lots’ for this sale. Consignors, if you have plant to sell, check out the Euro Auctions website...Euro Auctions, world leading valuer’s and auctioneers, have been appointed t... Read Full Article

JCB’s Fastrac has stormed into the record books after being crowned the world’s fastest tractor with a speed of 135.191 mph. The Fastrac - designed and built by a team of young engineers in Staffordshire - secured the title at E... Read Full Article

Housebuilding and ground working contractors M M Miller Ltd of Wick, Caithness, is one of the first to take delivery of the all-new Volvo EC60E compact excavator, launched earlier this year at Plantworx. The pair of machines have been supplied... Read Full Article

JSJ Construction of Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, has invested in a new Volvo A25G articulated hauler for its growing fleet of ground working equipment. Of which, there are now three twenty-five tonne Volvo trucks in their growing holding of... Read Full Article

A North West plant hirer has invested in a fleet of 20 of JCB’s world leading 3CX backhoe loaders. Stockport-based H&C Plant Hire has purchased the JCB 3CX Eco models to carry out a range of local council contracts in the M... Read Full Article

With Wales leading the march in its progressive adoption of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), Aggregate Industries has emphasised the important opportun... Read Full Article

Bruks Siwertell has delivered a high-capacity Siwertell ship unloader to Gramosa Agroalimentos SA. It was ordered in 2018 to ensure efficient, environment-friendly and careful material handling for Gramosa Agroalimentos’s new agri-... Read Full Article

Boels Rental, the UK division of the leading Dutch organisation are expanding and strengthening their hire fleet of lighting towers. The company has just purchased a further one hundred X-ECO LED lighting sets from the Cambridgeshire based company... Read Full Article

The Manitou group, world leader in all-terrain material handling, announces the take over of a majority stake in its UK dealer Mawsley Machinery Ltd, based near Northampton, consecutive to the retirement of their main shareholders.A priva... Read Full Article

BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, has invested a further £11m into Molson Group, the UK’s largest independent distributor of capital equipment to the construction and waste management sectors. ... Read Full Article

With over 3,000 lots consigned already it’s an event you’ll not want to miss!Euro Auctions, record breaking auctioneers of industrial plant, and construction machinery, has already consigned over 3,000 lots consigned ... Read Full Article

ECY Haulmark, the leading supplier of high-quality hydraulic attachments for excavators in the United Kingdom, has signed a co-operation agreement with Steelwrist for supply of fully automatic couplers and attachment interfaces.E... Read Full Article

Allu, the manufacturer of the Transformer and Processor ranges of attachments, has recently launched a rental division within its home market of Finland. This has enabled countless Finnish companies to enjoy the benefits of the Allu solutions,... Read Full Article

Over-pressurisation of storage silos during powder deliveries is a significant safety issue, one which the cement and aggregates industries (amongst others) have become cognisant of over the last decade. Whilst it is a complex problem, the ris... Read Full Article

Shell Bitumen has entered into a partnership with Tiki Tar Industries to sell bitumen to customers in the pavement sector, including national and state h... Read Full Article