Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

When undertaking heavy lifting projects it is important to use top quality lifting points, as well as it being a legal requirement. Quality lifting points enable a range of lifting processes to occur safely and smoothly from production, assembly, ... Read Full Article

Can appropriately describe the agricultural contracting company’s new Volvo L70H loading shovel that’s been supplied on a set of Michelin Mega X Bib wheel and tyre assemblies! Delivered in time for 2015’s silage sea... Read Full Article

A JCB digger will take pride of place at this year’s St. Patrick's Day Parade in London after being restored to showroom condition – more than 50 years after it first rolled off the production line.The dilapidated JCB 3 - whic... Read Full Article

 When designing the new Cat® F Series Wheeled Excavators, Caterpillar solicited customer input for characteristics considered important. Heading the list were initial quality and reliability, low operating costs, operator comfort... Read Full Article

UK based construction and machinery exhibition, PLANTWORX 2017, is over 60% sold fifteen months ahead of the 3rd biennial event which is taking place at its Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground home in Leicestershire on June 6th, 7th and 8th June 2017. S... Read Full Article

Hawk Plant Hire’s extensive fleet has been further enhanced with the addition of a new Bell Equipment B40D ADT - a high-performance machine that is already proving its return on investment.The economical model, purchased for general... Read Full Article

Newry based Hill Engineering has been named as one of Ireland’s ‘Best Managed’ companies in the Deloitte Best Managed Companies Awards Programme. The company, which demonstrated superior business performance for the second year r... Read Full Article

£0.5M+ ORDER INTAKE . . . With order intake, in the past 3 months alone, for our well respected filter range surpassing £0.5m the need to evaluate improvements to manufacturing & ... Read Full Article

The Materials Handling Engineers Association is proud to announce the dates for its annual BULKEX conference.BULKEX16 – to be held again at the pres... Read Full Article

Machine operator training has become something of a family affair for a North Staffordshire company which has just bought its fourth JCB machine in three years. More than 1,000 trainees have passed through the doors of Williamsons of... Read Full Article

The European Parts Centre for the Doosan Heavy range of excavators, wheel loaders and articulated dump trucks, based at Leipzig in Germany, is currently achieving an industry-leading fill rate of an average of 96.6% compared to the typical figure ... Read Full Article

Leeds based Howard Plant Hire, a sister company to Howard Civil Engineering has placed a prestigious order for 21 Volvo excavators ranging from 2.7 tonnes up to 28 tonnes in operating weight in a package deal valued at just over £1.5m. ... Read Full Article

Equipment manufacturer JCB today announced an order for 50 skid steer and compact tracked loaders from national equipment and crane hire firm Hewden in a deal worth £2.5 million.The deal is for the JCB 155 and 205T tracked models an... Read Full Article

New products, processes and solutions are at the heart of every trade fair. Needless to say, this is especially true of bauma, the largest trade fair in the world. The coming edition of the world’s leading trade fair for construction machine... Read Full Article

The UK’s leading rail freight company will be known by a new name from today (02 March, 2016).The business previously known as DB Schenker Rail UK, has now officially become DB Cargo UK.It’s part of a full re-branding... Read Full Article

The Hawkes Group was formed by Reece Hawkes and over the years has grown to become one of the leading Civil Engineering companies in Northamptonshire. Continued growth of the company now sees them branching into the demolition sector, with the aim... Read Full Article

Avery Weigh-Tronix has entered an agreement with New Zealand weighing equipment manufacturer, BISON. The collaboration exclusively brings a pioneering new product to the UK marketplace, enabling users to obtain container weights and carry out weig... Read Full Article

Lincolnshire based civil engineering and surfacing contractors, Flexi Dig Ltd has added six new Volvo compact excavators to its plant fleet for the first time, taking delivery from Volvo’s utility dealer for the area – Rickmar Plant Sa... Read Full Article

To meet the demands of its growing order book, Liskeard-based Fred Champion Groundworks has expanded its CASE Construction Equipment fleet of machines with sixteen, Tier 4 Final, crawler excavators.Fred Champion is one of the largest grou... Read Full Article

CJ Holmes & Son is a family run company based in, Skegness Lincolnshire, established for over 20 -years the company provides groundwork services to local business Including leisure, commercial, construction and to the domestic market and more ... Read Full Article