News Items Related to 'Quarrying'
World's most powerful vacuum excavator arrives in the UK
Say 'DISAB' to the UK's major plant contractors and they'll tell you it's the world's most powerful vacloader, a Swedish designed and built HGV-mounted marvel that makes remarkably short work of all vacuuming up wet and dry waste and spillage mate... Read Full Article
Parker Plant Appointment
Parker Plant are delighted to announce the appointment of Andrew Dakin as Senior Sales Manager. Welcoming him to Parker Plant are Brett Dalby and Charlie Threapleton in Leicester on the 19th March 2012.With more than 30 years experience i... Read Full Article
New Doosan Excavators, Wheel Loaders and ADTs for Middle East and Africa at Intermat
At Intermat 2012, Doosan Infracore Construction Equipment is launching new crawler excavators, wheel loaders and articulated dump trucks (ADTs) specially designed for Middle East and African markets.Replacing the previous SOLAR models, th... Read Full Article
Tailored training takes quarry managers from “chalk”-face to rock-face
University of Leicester delivers qualification for quarrying industryTwo of the world’s largest quarrying companies are ... Read Full Article
Most productive and modern quarry in Poland with help from Sandvik
A modern stationary plant, together with related mobile screening a... Read Full Article
David Smith Contractors Ltd opt for more Volvo excavators
Fraserburgh based David Smith Contractors Ltd has added a further two, twenty four tonne EC2410C excavators and a twenty nine tonne EC290C to their increasing fleet of Volvo Construction Equipment products.Established back in 2002 by Propri... Read Full Article
UK aggregates industry continues to struggle in replenishing reserves
The UK aggregates industry continues to be unable to replenish its output with new reserves. This is despite markets continuing to remain at historically low levels during 2010. The industry marketing consultancy, BDS Marketing Research Ltd, estim... Read Full Article
Skene Group Limited sees Blue
In a decisive move to streamline its maintenance costs on mobile plant, Glenrothes based Skene Group Ltd has signed up to Volvo Construction Equipment's Blue customer support agreements for all their twenty two Volvo machines.The decisio... Read Full Article
Red Rhino Seminar A Crushing Success!
On the 26 June Red Rhino held its quarterly "Onsite Recycling of Construction Waste" seminar. The seminar, focusing on the huge savings on costs generated by the onsite ... Read Full Article
New investment for Yeoman Glensanda
Scotland's only large coastal quarry, Glensanda Quarry on Loch Linnhe near Oban in western Scotland, has agreed a long term deal with Alfred McAlpine Plant Services, delivering a fleet of 12 new large quar... Read Full Article