Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

As a respected and coveted manufacturer of premium bearings, NSK has long been the victim of unscrupulous counterfeiters. Looking to cheat both the OEM and the user, those producing fake bearings will stop at little to deceive p... Read Full Article

A long-standing user of Volvo reduced swing excavators, Powell Groundworks has opted for the latest E series ECR145, which is the fifteenth Volvo owned by the company...Commenting on the recently purchased ECR145E, Owner Will Pow... Read Full Article

Statom Group (formally Gears Group) has recently undertaken a £3.5 million investment in state of the art Construction equipment from Molson Group.The cache of machinery and equipment is to support Statom Group’s plant and machin... Read Full Article

Based in Windsor, Berkshire, Shorts Agricultural Services Ltd (SASL) have been providing agricultural contracting services to the surrounding counties since 1984. In 2009 SASL were awarded a Royal Warrant to the Queen as agricultural contractors f... Read Full Article

This week, October 19 2020, Nigel Thomason, British Fluid Power Association Distributor Chairman, condemns hose re-ending in the waste sector as the UK’s fluid power trade association launches its ‘Choose Q for Quality’ campaign ... Read Full Article

Bruks Siwertell has signed a contract with Ashdod Port Company Ltd for the delivery of a Siwertell ST 490-M screw-type ship unloader destined to serve Israel’s largest sea port. A fundamental requirement of the port was environmental protect... Read Full Article

One part of the economy for which doom and gloom predictions have not materialised is the used construction plant sector, as Ritchie Bros. has witnessed with its recent auctions in September...The world's largest heavy equipment ... Read Full Article

Engcon UK and Hitachi Construction Machinery UK (HCMUK) has announced a new partnership to supply and fit their range of tiltrotators at HCMUK’s state-of-the-art preparation centre in the North East. L Lynch Plant Hir... Read Full Article

Based in Northamptonshire, family run business Shenstone Plant, is run by Nick and Alex Bennie who have been running the business for the past 12 years. The business was first established in 1954 by Nick and Alex’s father David Bennie.... Read Full Article

Perth based civil engineering and plant contractors I & H Brown has taken delivery of a thirty tonne Volvo EC300E for its extensive plant fleet, which has been pledged to support health workers by raising money for the NHS Charities Togeth... Read Full Article

Tesco has specified Hanson’s reduced emission asphalt (REA) to resurface four customer car parks across the country.The product, which helps to minimise the impact of asphalt production and laying on local air quality, is being produce... Read Full Article

Leading hirer Johnson Plant is celebrating after its purchase of a new JCB electric mini excavator helped the company secure a host of new contracts.The Esher-based firm, established to supply plant to sister company Landmark Groundworks,... Read Full Article

One part of the economy for which doom and gloom predictions have not materialised is the used construction plant sector, as Ritchie Bros. has witnessed with its recent auctions in September...The world's largest heavy equipment ... Read Full Article

Doosan Infracore wins highest award at ‘Smart Construction Challenge 2020’ in the fields of earthwork automation and advanced surveyingCompany plans to commercialize a comprehensive construction ... Read Full Article

Mecalac Construction Equipment UK has launched a new promotion across its class-leading portfolio of MCR, MWR, MTX and 15MC excavators. Until 17th October 2020, construction professionals can equip their latest models with telematics fu... Read Full Article

A huge ‘75’ artwork visible from outer space was carved into a Staffordshire stubble field to mark JCB’s impending 75th birthday. The giant logo was cultivated in a field eight miles away from the company... Read Full Article

JCB is to mark its 75th birthday by giving employees around the world an additional day’s holiday, the company announced today. The news was conveyed to employees today ahead of the anniversary tomorrow. And in ... Read Full Article

Doosan is a proud partner of the ‘Signal’ Light Festival taking place this month in Prague in the Czech Republic. In its role as a leading manufacturer of construction machinery, Doosan has supplied one of the company’s DX160W-5 ... Read Full Article

As JCB prepares to mark its 75th birthday tomorrow there’s one family with an extra reason to toast the milestone after notching up a staggering 600 years’ service to the company. The Boot family started ... Read Full Article

Interest in OilQuick's quick couplers has grown steadily over the last few decades. With the new OQTR-E tiltrotator, that interest has grown even further, not least in Europe and the rest of the world. Until now OilQuick has only been represented ... Read Full Article