Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

Hanson has used an innovative low carbon asphalt for the first time in the UK as part of a programme of road maintenance schemes carried out with Dorset Council ahead of next week’s Tour of Britain.The eight-stage men’s profes... Read Full Article

Liebherr shows a range of innovations for the railway systemLiebherr is located in the outdoor area south – booth no. O/170Liebherr will be attending InnoTrans in Berlin from... Read Full Article

Shell Bitumen CarbonSink, Shell’s new bio-component binder that locks carbon within roads instead of releasing it back into the atmosphere, has been used in France for the first time.Ka... Read Full Article

Next month (8-9 September), Phoenix Hire and Sales – Yanmar’s official dealer for South Wales, Gloucestershire and Bristol – will host a compact equipment open day at its depot in Newport. Specialising in tool, plant and powered ... Read Full Article

Michelin training course for technicians working with materials handling equipment sets a new benchmark for the industryProgramme with practical emphasis is being run for Camso tec... Read Full Article

Staffordshire-based plant hire firm Double M has taken delivery of the very first Mecalac 3.5MDX site dumper sold by SM Plant Ltd. The state-of-the-art cabbed unit arrived in May and is already being used by customers across the region for a wide ... Read Full Article

Bobcat Sverige AB, the Authorised Dealer for Bobcat for Sweden, has announced a new collaboration with Nordkust Maskin AB for sales and service of the entire Bobcat range in the area from Umeå to Kiruna in the North of Sweden.Bobcat... Read Full Article

Construction materials trading group GRS has announced record turnover and strong pre-tax profits for 2021/22.The Nuneaton-based firm – which trades and transports aggregates and building products, as well as materials for ... Read Full Article

With the arrival of an E-Air V1100 from Atlas Copco, Brødrene Myhre, one of Norway’s largest drilling companies, is shifting to cost efficient, silent and low-emission electric machines...Only 30 minutes from the cen... Read Full Article

Trimet France needed a new ship unloading solution for its alumina-handling facility in Marseille, France. After leasing an older model, Trimet decided to order its own Siwertell next-generation road-mobile unloader. It is now oper... Read Full Article

Bobcat has expanded the company’s market-leading line-up of attachments with the launch of a new Heavy Duty Box Blade, aimed at both 2D and 3D grading applications. The new attachment offers a Plug & Play integrated solution, that can be... Read Full Article

The recent sale at the Euro Auctions flagship sale site in Leeds, showed a solid £42 million hammer total, as smashing the record for the greatest number of excavators ever sold at a Euro Auctions sale with 769 machines going over the ramp.... Read Full Article

Metso Outotec has been awarded an order for a large belt conveyor package for delivery to a mining customer in the Americas. The value of the order is approximately EUR 60 million, of which a third was b... Read Full Article

The Doosan dealer for Southern Germany, BAU Süddeutsche Baumaschinen Handels GmbH, has opened a new facility at the company‘s branch in Kempten. The opening ceremony for the new building was well attended and accompanied by an impressiv... Read Full Article

After European approval, now comes the United States as well...All Kohler diesel-fueled engines are approved to use HVO in the United States, in line with ASTM D975 standard. This confirmation comes just a few months after Eu... Read Full Article

Equipped with Man Platform and Remote Control System...A new Bobcat T40.180SLP telehandler has been delivered to the contractor, Van den Heuvel, at Tata Steel's IJmuiden Works, located on the North Sea Coast of the ... Read Full Article

Global building materials supplier CEMEX is further developing its global pilot of electric, zero-emission concrete mixers. Tests of these vehicles were carried out in Poland, follow... Read Full Article

Greater Manchester firm, DXI Regeneration, has made moves to consolidate its supply chain and swell its fleet. With much of the investment being made with Molson Equipment, from the wide range of brands available as part of their “Single... Read Full Article

bauma Innovation Hall LAB0 bundles together several formatsFive key topics form a common threadVirtual reality and promotion of young talent for specific target groupsThis year, in addition to the ... Read Full Article

As the UK sets ambitious carbon emission reduction targets, the onus is on all sectors of the industry to look at ways in which they can reduce their carbon footprint. Leading Civil Engineering firm, ECL, have been on a journey with their mobi... Read Full Article