Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

The centenary of the birth of JCB’s Founder was today marked with the unveiling of a specially commissioned bronze bust.Joseph Cyril Bamford CBE was born on June 21st, 1916 at the family home, The Parks, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, th... Read Full Article

Building on the success of the company’s previous E55W model, Bobcat has launched the new E57W Stage IIIB compliant wheeled excavator. The new E57W is equipped with the Bobcat D24 diesel engine that delivers a 4% increase in power (42.5 kW) ... Read Full Article

A UK plant hire company is celebrating 10 years of business success with a massive investment in new JCB equipment.Haydock-based Plant Hire UK (PHUK) has placed an order for almost 400 new machines in a deal worth £16.5 million. The... Read Full Article

In the UK, a new Doosan DX300SLR-5 crawler excavator that was part of a fleet of machines hired from Fraserburgh-based David Smith Contractors Ltd has played a vital role in helping to save the historic Abergeldie Castle following huge storms in S... Read Full Article

How to boost innovation and productivity – and raise profits – is the subject of a new conference, the Construction Productivity Forum.Taking place at the Inmarsat Conference Centre in London on June 8, the keynote speaker is ... Read Full Article

National plant hire specialist, Flannery Plant Hire has completed a £35M equipment solutions deal with Finning UK and Ireland, that will see 380 new Caterpillar® machines take the total of its technology supported Caterpillar fleet to ov... Read Full Article

LiuGong, a global leader in manufacturing a full line of extreme duty equipment, will exhibit at CeMAT 2016; the world’s leading trade fair for intralogistics.At the trade fair, which will take place from 31 May-3 June in Hannover, ... Read Full Article

At the bauma 2016, attachment and bucket specialist Lehnhoff presented its new symmetrical quickcouplers of the SQ series for excavators from 12 to 70 tons in three versions for the first time: the new quickcouplers are based on the open industria... Read Full Article

Market falls in the Middle East and Latin America fail to dent Volvo Construction Equipment’s first quarter results, with sales and profitability on the same level as last year, boosted by strong interest in its new machine introductions.... Read Full Article

Volvo Construction Equipment has appointed Mona Tractor Co Ltd, a long established and highly respected agricultural machinery supplier, as its utility equipment dealer covering the whole of North Wales with immediate effect. Mona Tr... Read Full Article

Volvo Construction Equipment pipelayers play a major part in Argentina’s energy revolution. The operator rotates the superstructure of the Volvo PL3005D pipelayer through 360 degrees to lift and place large, heavy pipe... Read Full Article

Norfolk-based Mervyn Lambert Plant Hire has invested in 40 new JCB Loadall telescopic handlers in an order worth in excess of £2 million.The deal is for JCB Loadall models ranging from 6 to 17 metres including the six-metre JCB 525-... Read Full Article

The Materials Handling Engineers Association is proud to announce the launch of the MHEA Excellence Awards – designed to celebrate the talent and creativity of its members and the wor... Read Full Article

Radar level sensors are a proven a success story for bulk solids level.  In some industries they have superseded electromechanical and ultrasonic measuring devices many sectors. This is due to th... Read Full Article

April’s bauma exhibition in Munich proved to be Terex Trucks’ most successful show to date, with the company showcasing new and improved equipment, alongside a renewed focus and investment in aftermarket and service excellence.... Read Full Article

This automated bulk material handling system provides a total process solution for moving highly fragile product through multiple process operations into bulk ... Read Full Article

Half-bridge scrapers made by A&J Fabtech rotate around a central pivot in circular settlement tanks and provide a cost effective option for removing sludge and scum which has settled to the bottom. A&J Fabtech takes the half-bridge scraper... Read Full Article

It was a highly successful Scotplant 2016 for CASE Construction Equipment and their dealer Hodge Plant Ltd, with sales of machines, new CASE customers, plus a record number of participants taking part in the CASE Rodeo Challenge.Hodge Pla... Read Full Article

A new automated Bulk Bag Weigh Batching System from Flexicon meters ingredients into a FLEXI-DISC™ Tubular Cable Conveyor that transports batches of a specified weight to downstream processing equi... Read Full Article

Within minutes after the world’s leading trade fair bauma 2016 had opened its doors, dozens of well-informed and curious visitors were at the Lehnhoff stand. Of course the company from Baden-Baden was ready to present several interesting ... Read Full Article