Doosan excavator art installation shines in Prague
Doosan is a proud partner of the ‘Signal’ Light Festival taking place this month in Prague in the Czech Republic. In its role as a leading manufacturer of construction machinery, Doosan has supplied one of the company’s DX160W-5 ... Read Full ArticleThe boots who were made up for working notch up 600 years' service
As JCB prepares to mark its 75th birthday tomorrow there’s one family with an extra reason to toast the milestone after notching up a staggering 600 years’ service to the company. The Boot family started ... Read Full ArticleA new Liebherr crawler excavator: R 940 Demolition replaces R 944 C
The LDC system (Liebherr Demolition Control) provides even more safety with the detection of the length of the installed equipment and toolsSuperb tool weights with greater ranges for enhanced productivity30°-tilta... Read Full ArticleUnlocking the value of ‘hidden’ metals
By Gary Moore, metal recycling specialist, UNTHA UKThe world of metal recycling is never straightforward, with sometimes the slight... Read Full ArticleCollins Earthworks takes delivery of UK’s first EC950F
Derbyshire-based Collins Earthworks has taken delivery from SMT GB of the UK’s first Volvo EC950F - the largest excavator currently offered in the Volvo Construction Equipment range.In mass excavation trim, this heavyweigh... Read Full ArticleActive prevention of fires caused by damaged batteries during alternative fuel production thanks to Lindner's Fire Prevention System (FPS)
DI (FH) Thomas Huber & DI Stefan Scheiflinger-Ehrenwerth, MSc.Lindner-Recyclingtech GmbH, Product Management, Spittal an der Drau, AustriaIng. Andreas SäumelMayer Recycling GmbH... Read Full ArticleCrushing the old method
When resisting change stunts your company’s growth, MB Crusher is the solutionIs using old methods the easy way out?Old methods feel comfortable and safer, save you hours of research, and appear to be cheaper on your budget... Read Full Articlee-One electric refuse vehicle sells out on day one!
Refuse Vehicle Solutions Ltd (RVS) has sold the first e-One converted electric refuse truck and has been inundated with orders since launching its new electric repowering solution at a special two-day event this month...The e-One... Read Full ArticleOilQuick opens subsidiary OilQuick UK Ltd in Great Britain.
Interest in OilQuick's quick couplers has grown steadily over the last few decades. With the new OQTR-E tiltrotator, that interest has grown even further, not least in Europe and the rest of the world. Until now OilQuick has only been represented ... Read Full ArticleBrits are spending 54 hours a year trying to recycle
The recycling symbol Brits are most familiar with is the Mobius Loop, with 78% of respondents knowing what it meansThe sign Brits struggle to recognise the most is the Aluminium symbol at 1... Read Full Article£2 million upgrade for Hanson Kings X Concrete Plant
Capacity has been doubled at the Kings X operation following a £2 million upgrade...Both existing two-metre Skako planetary mixers have been replaced with two four-metre models, which can produce up to 230 ... Read Full ArticleAR Demolition use cutting-edge explosive technology to bring down structures at a Leicestershire quarry
Innovative demolition specialists AR Demolition have used cutting-edge explosive technology to bring down structures at a Leicestershire quarry, in a UK industry first.Continuing its track record for pioneering new technologies, the compa... Read Full ArticleGlimmers of brighter future amid “perfect storm” for plastics recyclers
Not for the first time, regulations took centre-stage in discussions hosted by the BIR Plastics Committee.Its webinar on October 14 featured an in-depth review of the implications of Basel Convention amendments entering... Read Full ArticleTwo SSSC Magnetic Separators ordered
A UK metal recycling company has ordered two (2) SSSC Magnetic Separators to recover fragmented stainless steel. The order followed initial tests undertaken on site with a Rare Earth Drum Magnet dur... Read Full ArticleNo trouble at mill
A Liebherr wheeled loader is the critical link at the back end of a timber processing operation feeding the hungry biomass market……As the UK’s reliance on fossil fuels dwindles, wind, solar and nuclear power g... Read Full ArticleDoosan Excavators prepare site in centre of Santander
A fleet of Doosan excavators working with large breakers has been used by the company, Excavaciones Gaby, to clear space for a new site for building work in the centre of the city of Santander in Spain. "The work carried out re... Read Full ArticleEriez Europe, drumming up profit for the scrap industry
The scrap metal industry has long been a key sub-sector of the UK economy, further emphasised after such a tumultuous year for heavy industries. Eriez Magnetics Europe recognises the environmental and commercial importance of the metals ... Read Full ArticleHoward Civil Engineering expand fleet with Komatsu utility range.
Howard Civil Engineering, founded in 2003 by Michael Howard, is one of the leading civil engineering companies in the North and specialises in four key disciplines: RC Frames, S278 works, roads & sewers and groundworks. The family run busi... Read Full ArticleTechnology and practice key to optimising concrete with recycled materials
Strength and quality are attributes measurable on a scale. High quality and low, strong and weak. So too are the quality and structural integrity of recycled sand and aggregates, writes Eunan Kelly, Head of Reco at CDE, the company’s con... Read Full Article