Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

The HUB team were recently invited as guest to attend the ‘Make the Future London’, featuring Shell Eco-marathon Europe, which welcomed more than 30,000 guests to a festival of ideas, innovation and friendly competition held at the Oly... Read Full Article

Flexicon has introduced a new bulk bag lifting frame with telescoping arms that accommodates bulk bags produced in an increasing range of sizes.The li... Read Full Article

David Einig Contracting (DEC), one of the leading earth moving contractors and plant hire firms within Oxfordshire and the South East, is using Kubota excavators to construct its brand new headquarters just outside Thame in Oxfordshire.Th... Read Full Article

Hæhre Entreprenør AS, one of the largest contractors in Norway, has purchased 10 new Doosan DA40 Stage IV/Tier 4 Final compliant articulated dump trucks (ADTs) from Doosan Bobcat AS, a subsidiary of Rosendal Maskin AS, the Doosan and ... Read Full Article

Shell has established a robust bitumen supply chain in Europe, anchored by Shell’s two main refineries in the region: Rheinland in Germany and Pernis in the Netherlands. In late 2015, Shell anno... Read Full Article

Breaking with tradition, Corby based KKD Services has opted for a new Volvo ECR58D for the first time. The 5.8 tonne reduced swing radius machine has been supplied by Volvo Construction Equipment’s utility dealer SM Plant Ltd. ... Read Full Article

Malcolm Construction has purchased a TA300 articulated hauler for use in its plant hire division. With a customer, dealer and manufacturing relationship that goes back almost 20 years, Malcolm Construction once again called on Terex ... Read Full Article

In Montebello Vicentino to see first-hand the bucket crusher MB-L160, purchased by one of the leading Italian rental groups.The MB-L160 is a crusher bucket with a productivity of 20 m3/h that can be mounted either on telehandlers, wheel l... Read Full Article

Major Owen, the leading distributor of high quality construction and groundcare equipment in North Wales, is celebrating its 30th anniversary as an official Kubota dealer this year.The dealership’s 30-year milestone, hot on the heel... Read Full Article

Aggmax, East Anglia's leading supplier of aggregates, sands and soils, has added a new Utranazz HM12H-E Volumetric Concrete Mixer to its fleet of construction aggregate equipment.It will be... Read Full Article

The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology specialises in helping industry solve it’s powder and particulate handling problems through consultancy and training. We run a s... Read Full Article

Doosan Bobcat EMEA has launched the new high performance DL220-5 wheel loader, the latest addition to the company’s ‘DL-5’ generation of Stage IV compliant machines. This compact, manoeuvrable wheel loader is ideal for a variety ... Read Full Article

Freightliner becomes the first UK rail operator to build European Standards compliant new box wagons from a significant proportion of recycled materials, as Freightliner Heavy Haul places into use a new fleet of wagons made using parts from re... Read Full Article

Matpro Machinery recently provided a new Backers Star Screen machine for Forth Resource Management (FRM), to facilitate the separation of compost in all weather conditions. FRM have sites all across Scotland and primarily deal with t... Read Full Article

This self-contained, high-volume bulk material packaging system processes up to 50,000 pounds/hour of combustible materials of varied physical characteristics, including: interlocking flakes and free-flo... Read Full Article

CASE Construction Equipment received a Bronze Level World Class Manufacturing (WCM) certification for its European Excavator Hub in San Mauro, Italy following an independent audit. This achievement comes on the back of the brand’s investment... Read Full Article

Bosch Rexroth’s Glenrothes manufacturing site has been presented an award for outstanding achievement by industry association, Scottish Engineering.The manufacturer of hydraulic motors exports in excess of 95 per cent of its prod... Read Full Article

Volvo Penta will begin production of 5 and 8-liter industrial engines in India, aimed at the Indian market, next year. The company has already been supplying engines for industrial and marine applications, to customers in the country for more than... Read Full Article

Earthmoving attachments manufacturer, Miller UK, has been recognised for its commitment to innovation after winning the Commercial Innovation of the Year award at the Construction News Awards.The award was won in conjunction with plant hi... Read Full Article

Tulloch Developments Ltd, the largest civil and marine engineering contractor in Shetland in Scotland, has purchased a new Doosan DL450-5 wheel loader from Inverurie-based Balgownie Ltd, the local Authorised Doosan and Bobcat dealer. A family comp... Read Full Article