Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

Kayleigh Plant Hire (KPH), one of London’s leading plant hire experts, is set for the future after investing more than £2.5million in a fleet of new excavators to meet the needs of the booming construction industry.The investm... Read Full Article

The UK’s first Doosan DX490LC-5 50 tonne Stage IV compliant crawler excavator has been purchased by Hydrock, the leading providers of consultancy and specialist contracting services for construction, infrastructure and the environment in the... Read Full Article

So says John Turner, M & J Evans Construction Ltd’s Plant Manager as the company takes delivery of a brand new twenty two tonne Volvo EC220E crawler excavator into its plant fleet.The new Tier IV compliant EC220E joins a fleet o... Read Full Article

The CPA (Construction Plant-hire Association) is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year and in recognition of its history the CPA have made a donation to the Vintage Excavator Trust. The donation went towards the cost of the transportation of ... Read Full Article

Alan Berger has been appointed senior vice president, Technology at Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE). Alan has worked for the company since 2007 and has held a variety of senior engineering, technology and management roles both within the V... Read Full Article

Euro Auctions, the UK’s leading auctioneers of industrial plant, construction machinery and agricultural equipment, is currently putting final plans together for the next Auction sale in Leeds – on between 6th to 8th April – and ... Read Full Article

Volvo Construction Equipment has developed mobile service stations for its customers in far-flung places. In a country the size of China, it is not always easy for customers in remote areas to get instant access to machine s... Read Full Article

When it was looking for a new articulated dump truck washer, Bell Equipment UK Ltd knew it would need to call on an equipment supplier with the ability to think outside of the box. To be based at its new depot at Burton-on-Trent in Staffords... Read Full Article

Garic, one of the UK’s biggest suppliers of welfare facilities and plant to the construction, industrial, utilities and infrastructure sectors, is creating 16 jobs at its new depot in the Midlands. The 160,000 sq ft facility on Birmingham Ne... Read Full Article

We are pleased to announce a competition open to all who are attending bauma in Munich this year. The competition is simple to enter, with a guaranteed prize for all successful entrants. Details follow:Win with Worsley Plant at bauma!... Read Full Article

The Saxlund Group, has received yet another high profile order from Babcock & Wilcox Vølund A/S, Denmark. The order is for the delivery of a state-of-the-art biomass handling system to the Templeborough Biomass Power Plant in Sheffield,... Read Full Article

Manitou Group makes 45% of its turnover in the construction market.Attendance at Bauma dedicated to innovation, with 12 new products and services exhibited.These innovations provide the ideal response to the sp... Read Full Article

Ultimate Safety working at Heights with RUD Fall Protection Anchorage Points.According to RIDDOR falls from height were the most common cause of fatalities from 2013/2014, accounting for nearly three in ten (29%)... Read Full Article

bauma 2016: AUMUND Group stands B2/143 and C2/245A proud milestone for AUMUND: For the last 25 years AUMUND Fördertechnik has exhibited at every edition of Munich’s bauma. AUMUND’s first experien... Read Full Article

One of the latest additions to our catalyst handling range of vacuum equipment is our Dust Free Catalyst Drum Filler. As manufacturers we are constantly testing, refining and developing our equipment and because we hire, we benefit from the feedba... Read Full Article

With demand for construction equipment continuing to grow throughout Wales, groundwork contractor J Mousley & Sons has expanded its fleet with the addition of two new CASE Construction Equipment crawler excavators, a CX80C and a CX130D from th... Read Full Article

Hire specialists BOA Plant has signaled its intention for growth throughout 2016 after agreeing a new deal with machinery dealer Shellplant for the supply of 36 Kubota excavators.The deal, which was announced at the recent Executive Hire ... Read Full Article

bauma 2016: SAMSON is present in Hall C2/245SAMSON Materials Handling Limited specialises in the design and manufacture of mobile ... Read Full Article

Siwertell, part of Cargotec, has received an order from a port development company for a high-capacity ship unloader destined to serve a busy grain terminal. The ST640-M screw-type unloader has been ordered as part of an ongoing development progra... Read Full Article

Connor Construction (South West) Ltd has added a new tracked Volvo P8820C road paver to its existing fleet of predominantly branded Volvo machines, which has brought a new dynamic to the company’s operating portfolio. The Volvo... Read Full Article