Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

The Chinese-Pakistani consortium CEC-POWERCHINA and the Pakistan Frontier Works Office is building the Diamer-Basha Dam near the Chinese border in northern Pakistan. The construction project will require 18.6 million cubic meters of mainly rol... Read Full Article

Leading infrastructure services company FM Conway has partnered with Liebherr to add three new Wheel Loaders to its fleet of vehicles, with each offering comprehensive intelligent assistance systems to greatly raise health and safety...... Read Full Article

At the last sale of 2021 from the team at Euro Auctions, Leeds, 3,500 lots went over the ramp and the hammer went down for the last time, with prices remaining strong as the year ends...The last Euro Auctions sale of year at the ... Read Full Article

Global building materials solutions supplier CEMEX has worked with Lancashire County Council to provide a CarbonNeutral®️ Asphalt Product for road surfacing in a residential area in Preston. VIALOW Zero was selected by the Counci... Read Full Article

The short course calendar relating to bulk materials handling issues is now out.Particulate materials used in the pr... Read Full Article

The telehandlers are used for both construction and farming work...Launched earlier this year, the first of Bobcat’s new R-Series telehandlers have been delivered in the UK. The three T41.140SLP 14 m Stage V telehandlers fo... Read Full Article

JCB today delivered some festive cheer to thousands of UK employees – a £750 Christmas bonus.The bonus will be paid to more than 6,000 employees - including agency employees with over 12 months’ service - working at JCB&... Read Full Article

A Government-backed project to calculate and measure the carbon dioxide emissions that are naturally absorbed by concrete used in UK buildings and infrastructure, is set to commence. When implemented, the UK will have the first natio... Read Full Article

Stoke-on-Trent City Council has become the first authority in the UK to take delivery of one of JCB's revolutionary PotholePro machines.The machine, which can repair potholes four times quicker than standard methods, was launched by JCB e... Read Full Article

With scrap metal prices continuing to rise, metal recycling companies nationwide are seeing the ever-increasing necessity to invest in more machinery. For leading scrap metal processors and exporter... Read Full Article

JCB is celebrating a major milestone for its award-winning engine.The 750,000th engine has just come off the line at JCB Power Systems in Derbyshire where production first began in 2004.Engine production was extended t... Read Full Article

Tesco and DRS partner on a new refrigerated rail freight service that will take 40 lorries off the road for every journey it makesHelping Tesco to deliver Christmas, the service will run seven days a week and replace 7.3 million ... Read Full Article

What can you do in 4 hours? It is unlikely you’ll list the full set up and operation of a concrete mixing solution. But with the Bison mobile mixing plant from SIMEM that is exactly what you can achieve.Available only from UK & ... Read Full Article

SAMSON Materials Handling offers the most comprehensive and accomplished range of bulk material handling solutions in the marketplace today. The ... Read Full Article

Mecalac has announced the appointment of a new dealer to its UK and Ireland distribution network. Headquartered in Stanton under Bardon, Leicestershire, Cooks Midlands Ltd (Cooks) will be responsible for retailing Mecalac’s globally-acclaime... Read Full Article

Bruks Siwertell has secured a new material waste handling contract from returning customer Packaging Corporation of America (PCA). The new receiving hopper, screw conveyors, and a conventional idler... Read Full Article

Global building materials supplier CEMEX has made a further advancement in its efforts to achieve carbon neutrality at its Rüdersdorf cement plant by 2030. The latest partnership in the Carbon Neutral A... Read Full Article

An innovative glow in the dark paving system that absorbs ultraviolet rays during the day and radiates a soft luminescent light at night has been used to bring a new commercial development in Derbyshire to life.Tarmac worked with develope... Read Full Article

Smopyc Show Firsts for MaxControl and R-Series Telehandlers...Bobcat’s new MaxControl system and the company’s new R-Series range of telehandlers made their first appearance at the Smopyc internationa... Read Full Article

“This machine is in no way inferior to a 30-tonne excavator”Powerful and user-friendly excavatorMaximum comfort for the operatorTen years of trusting cooperation between two family businesses... Read Full Article