Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

Alpha Manufacturing have taken another huge step in achieving an ambitious five-year plan to double turnover by the end of 2020. This week saw the company sign off on the £1 million installation of a new fully automated STOPA storage system,... Read Full Article

Can be loaded at 90° to the vertical with a full working load limit:RUD Chains offers over 500 different tested and certified lifting and lashing points which cover a working load capacity range of 0.6 to 250 tonne. RUD&rsquo... Read Full Article

The business which makes and sells JCB’s record breaking engine has been honoured for innovation and sales success.JCB Power Systems produced the engine which powered the JCB Dieselmax car to a world diesel land speed record of 350.... Read Full Article

Kubota, the global manufacturer of world-class engines, is showcasing a number of its industry leading industrial diesel and alternative fuel products at this year’s IMHX Show, demonstrating the company’s innovative solutions to the ... Read Full Article

It is five years since Boughton Engineering, Britain’s longest established designer and manufacturer of hook-loaders, skip-loaders and close-coupled trailers, became part of private family-owned Skan Group Holdings, based in the West Midland... Read Full Article

By Roger Harris, Regional Sales Manager at FANUC UKWhat determines the choice of palletising robot to handle product X at point Y on the line? With a choice of 20+ FANUC robots arms all capable of performing palletising tasks, Ro... Read Full Article

The Hyster® Special Projects Engineering Department has delivered a flexible solution to enable a Hyster® ReachStacker to overcome the challenge of handling varied load types.“The customer needed to use the same ReachStacker... Read Full Article

Irish Salt Mining and Exploration’s Carrickfergus mine plays a vital part in keeping the UK’s road network open during winter, with Terex Trucks surefooted articulated dump trucks hauling extracted salt – whatever the weather.... Read Full Article

Kubota, the leading compact construction machinery manufacturer, has unveiled its latest edition KC250H-4 tracked carrier, with the new model set to raise the bar with its three-way tip capability.The Kubota KC250H-4 is a truly versatile ... Read Full Article

Civil engineering company, WD Lewis based in Mid Glamorgan, Wales has recently signed a deal worth over £100K with Northern Ireland based attachment manufacturer Hill Engineering for 20 TEFRA Quick Couplers and 60 Titan ... Read Full Article

Doosan Bobcat EMEA will be showing its extensive range of Bobcat compact machines and attachments for horticulture, landscaping and construction on Stand 336 in Hall 07 at the GaLaBau 2016 in Nuremberg in Germany from 14th to 17th September 2016. ... Read Full Article

Leading European industrial wholesaler and manufacturer, Distag QCS (UK) Ltd, has opened a new purpose-built hydraulic hose assembly plant at its Farthing Road facility in Ipswich. This new facility compliments their established hose production fa... Read Full Article

Ritchie Bros. to Become Preferred Provider to Caterpillar and Participating Dealers for Caterpillar Equipment Upon Closing of Ritchie Bros.' Acquisition of IronPlanetStrategic Relationship to Accelerate Ca... Read Full Article

The EW160E wheeled excavator is the latest Volvo machine to get the LEGO® Technic treatment. A replica in everything but size, the new model boasts 1,166 individual elements and a built in pneumatic drive system.After almost two years... Read Full Article

JoinPoint Limited, the leading Leicester-based plant hire firm, has announced a significant purchase of 18 new Bell Equipment B30Es, as it responds to customer demand for new, reliable earthmoving equipment capable of delivering both performance a... Read Full Article

Is the sentiment of Brian Henderson, Plant and Environmental Manager for Kirkcaldy based Thomas Menzies Builders Ltd as the company take their first Volvo EC55C compact excavator from recently appointed utility dealer for Central and Southern Scot... Read Full Article

Mud, muck and machines: the stratospheric growth of Collins Earthworks, the UK construction company that has gone from strength to strength in recent years, thanks largely to its ever-growing fleet of Volvo Construction Equipment units.  ... Read Full Article

Blantyre based Advance Construction Scotland Ltd has purchased a significant package of Volvo excavators which are all incremental to the company’s already massive fleet of in excess of some 200 machines.Having purchased their first... Read Full Article

NBE introduces this automated, bulk material handling and packaging system built on the NBE integrated construction and controls infrastructure. The complete process sequence, including: pallet/base supp... Read Full Article

Strategic move aligns Fuchs material handlers with Terex Materials Processing segmentTerex Corporation continues to implement a series of strategic moves and investments to... Read Full Article