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CDE's global expansion is continuing at a great pace with the recent announcement of new offices opened in Poland.The Cookstown based company which designs and manufactures customised equipment for the ... Read Full Article

It's a little-known fact that Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Lord Palmerston and The Earl of Liverpool all used the same bottle bank in London. To be more precise they used Hoares Bank, which was founded as a private deposit bank by Richard Hoare in 167... Read Full Article

Today the greater number of operators using materials handling equipment and workplace transport are increasing the risk of accidents and making it harder to administer an efficient and eff... Read Full Article

Adding further to their range of Titan motor oils, Fuchs Lubricants has now introduced the Titan GT1 PRO C-1 SAE 5W-30 which is a premium synthetic engine oil for today's engines fitted with exhaust treatment systems such as particulate filters or CR... Read Full Article

Today, WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) announced the first two trailblazer sites to use high quality compost to regenerate brownfield land for biofuel production.The former landfill sites, at Lumley North and Coxhoe East, wi... Read Full Article

As a major specialist supplier of lubricants to the Quarrying and Recycling industries Fuchs Lubricants recognize that environmental management has beco... Read Full Article

Metso Minerals (UK) Ltd, the sole UK importer of Rammer products for the past 10 years, has decided to relinquish the franchise following the rebranding of Rammer's range of hydraulic hammers and attachments as Sandvik Mining and Construction product... Read Full Article

Aggregate, Recycling and Processing will launch an extremely impressive new Gipo mobile crushing and ... Read Full Article

A recent production study comparing a conventional road construction job site to a job site using Caterpillar's AccuGrade machine control and guidance products revealed outstanding improvements in terms of productivity, fuel consumption, finish quali... Read Full Article

Building a road through a rocky, mountainous Alaskan forest was never going to be easy on the construction equipment, but when the operators are novices it creates extreme demands. Brian O'Sullivan reports from the 49th state of th... Read Full Article

Bearings manufacturer Schaeffler (UK) Ltd has just revamped its UK website offering easier navigation and improved functionality for customers. The website's ‘Products' section contains more than 40,000 different standard bearing and linear ... Read Full Article

Hanson Building Products have recently signed an order for delivery of a new Sennebogen 6180HD electric 180 tonne dragline. To be supplied by the Sennebogen UK distributor E. H. Hassell of Stoke on Trent this will be one of the biggest draglines sold... Read Full Article

Stockholm, Sweden, February 5, 2007: Atlas Copco AB has entered into an agreement with Altor 2003 Fund to acquire Dynapac AB of Sweden, a leading supplier of compaction and paving equipment for the road construction market. The acqu... Read Full Article

Caterpillar has recently announced changes to its high-production, asphalt paver line that results in a new model - the AP655D. The AP655D is a high production 2.5 m track-type asphalt paver that features a Cat® C6.6 engine with ACERT... Read Full Article

It's a sad fact of everyday life that theft of plant and construction equipment has reached an all-time high. Theft is a major problem for everyone involved in the industry, from major civil engineering companies through to family-run building firms.... Read Full Article

Forest Garden, the UK's largest manufacturer of timber garden products, has just taken delivery of a Liebherr A 924B HD Litronic materials handler for their mill at Lockerbie. Forest Garden has run two A 904 models for around five years at the mil... Read Full Article

Northern Ireland based Terex Finlay is looking forward with confidence to further market growth across Europe as it approaches its 50th year in business.Cone CrushersThe company, which is part of the world-wide Terex Corporation,... Read Full Article

Stockholm, Sweden, October 24, 2006: This year marks 50 years since Atlas Copco made a major expansion of its compressor business and accelerated its journey towards worldwide leadership in compressed air. It is also 50 years since Atlas Copco too... Read Full Article

M6 is Britain’s Spookiest Road. You’re driving alone down a dark, country lane.  The mist rolls in and the shadows cast by the full moon start to play tricks with you mind.  You feel the hairs on the b... Read Full Article

WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme) has launched an open tender, inviting bids from organisations, businesses and local authorities who are able to replicate good practice models and provide ... Read Full Article