Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

BTE Plant Sales, one of the UK’s leading new and used plant machinery dealers, has reached a major milestone after recently celebrating its 25th anniversary.Formed in the early nineties, the company has expanded over the years, with... Read Full Article

Hoppers, silos, bins and bunkers are widely used in industry for storing bulk solids materials. To ensure regular discharge from these storage systems, it is important to understand the flow characterist... Read Full Article

Acquisition provides Ritchie Bros. with additional multichannel solutions for customers, an expanded buyer audience and a larger presence in Europe.Mascus generates 3.2 million monthly website visits The bu... Read Full Article

A new BULK-OUT® Bulk Bag Discharging Station from Flexicon prevents cross-contamination during material changeovers, while eliminating down-time associated with cleaning of hoppers. Beneficial for applications involving food allergens, pigment... Read Full Article

Leading Scottish civil engineering firm McFadyens Contractors has renewed its relationship with Bell Equipment with the purchase of two Bell Articulated Dump Trucks (ADTs).The latest machines – a new Bell B30E, plus a used B30D &nda... Read Full Article

Utranazz, the concrete equipment specialist, is using The UK Concrete Show 2016 to unveil its new Semix Mobile 60 wet batching plant, which can be seen for the first time ever in the UK on stand M30. The Mobile 60 is completely pre-assembled and c... Read Full Article

A leading Lincolnshire plant hirer has praised the performance of JCB’s new 10-tonne 100C-1 midi excavator model after buying the first of the machines in the UK.Lincoln-based ABBA Plant Hire has taken delivery of the new JCB 100C-1... Read Full Article

Magni Telescopic Handlers was born in 2013 founded by the Magni Family.The Magni family has a long tradition in the design and construction of machines that started after the second world war .The experience of more of 30 year... Read Full Article

The investment centres on the installation of new machines, to increase production and reduce lead times of couplings manufactured at the site. Two of the machines are now fully operational, with a further two to follow later in 2016.Manu... Read Full Article

The nominations for the bauma Innovation Award 2016 have now been made. Klaus Dittrich, Chairman & CEO of Messe München, announced the fifteen nominated companies and their innovations on the occasion of the bauma Media Dialog on January ... Read Full Article

Following the success of the Plantworx Grand Stand Draw, which was held at the recent CEA Annual Conference, the sale of general stands for the 3rd biennial construction machinery and services industry exhibition has now commenced!Plantwo... Read Full Article

GIANT revealed its first skid steer loader during the GIANT open days in October 2014. After more than a year of development and testing the little GIANT is ready for production. Especially for this range of compact machines we have ... Read Full Article

YHC Hire Solutions have just taken delivery of 49 Takeuchi mini excavators in a six figure deal from CBL Plant Sales that will both bolster and update the company’s range of small plant, enabling them to offer their customers the highest qua... Read Full Article

Caterpillar and its German dealer, Zeppelin Baumaschinen GmbH, will exhibit a suite of technologies, services and equipment at bauma 2016 under the theme “Built for It.” In display space totalling more than 8200 square metres, the comp... Read Full Article

A new Volvo EC140EL recently delivered to Maclennan Contracts of Balquhidder, Central Scotland is returning significant fuel savings according to company owner Alasdair Maclennan. Specialising in general groundworks, earthmoving and ... Read Full Article

Continuing its successful relationship with Bell Equipment, leading plant operator Earthline has announced the purchase of an additional seven Bell ADTs and Wheel Loaders, to further support its extensive fleet.Having established a reputa... Read Full Article

A CIVIL engineering company has ramped up its production process after taking delivery of a new high-tech screener from Finlay Plant Northern.Ashcourt Group, which supplies aggregates and recyc... Read Full Article

This bulk container dumper is designed specifically for processing applications handling non-free flowing, high bulk density materials. Process-specific featur... Read Full Article

Caldwell Construction Ltd of Stoke on Trent has taken delivery of six more Volvo EC140D crawler excavators as it continues to expand its groundworks and civil engineering business within the house building sector.The new Volvo EC140D&rsqu... Read Full Article

Easy steps to closing the doorDo you use Wireless Industrial Control Sensors in your Process System?Yes? Then you will know that the use of this technology has introduced everyday IT security risks in to the ICS domain.... Read Full Article