Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

A company which helps JCB customers to buy their machines has set itself a golden charity goal in celebration of 50 years in business. JCB Finance – one of the biggest lenders to the UK’s construction and agricultural industry &... Read Full Article

JCB is set to reduce production levels at UK factories due to anticipated component shortages from Chinese suppliers impacted by the coronavirus outbreak, the company announced today. The move will mean a shorter working week for aro... Read Full Article

It’s been less than a year since Sarah and Christopher Cookson tragically lost their son Carter who was born prematurely on Boxing Day, 2018. Within the first hours of his life the beloved baby suffered three cardiac arrests and consequently... Read Full Article

OilQuick's biggest news this year is, of course, the launch of their new tiltrotator series, OQTR-E. OilQuick has launched it as ”Doubly world-leading” and ”The best of both worlds”. When you know the background of OQTR-E y... Read Full Article

Mick George Concrete is taking a leading role in the supply of low-carbon alternatives to the East Anglia and East Midlands construction industry, having dedicated a 100-tonne silo at its Cambridgeshire based batching plant to Cemfree, a low-carbo... Read Full Article

An exceptional machine: The LH 150 ET Gantry Port Litronic is not only the first electrically-operated port handling machine in its weight class. It is also the world's largest electrically-operated Liebherr port handling machi... Read Full Article

The Bobcat Advanced Selectable Auxiliary Control (A-SAC) System developed for the company’s R-Series mini-excavators from 2-4 tonne has won a ‘Technical Innovation Award’ from the jury for the Samoter Innovation Awards 2020. The ... Read Full Article

Strömsund, Sweden was where Engcon was founded and remains the site of it’s tiltrotator development and production facilities. As a world-leading tiltrotator manufacturer Engcon continues to grow, recruiting 20 key strategic positio... Read Full Article

Euro Auctions, record breaking auctioneers of industrial plant, construction and agricultural machinery, starts 2020 with a bang and a sale that sees over 5,200 lots go over the new sales ramp at Euro... Read Full Article

One of the UK’s leading plant hirers has added another 30 new JCB Loadall telescopic handlers to its fleet as part of a massive investment in over 300 JCB machines worth nearly £16 million.Ipswich-based TRU Plant has taken del... Read Full Article

 …in the shape of 3 reduced swing excavators from Volvo.Breaking with tradition, the Aberdeenshire-based civil engineering and groundworks contractor has added two new reduced swing Volvo ECR235Es and an ECR35... Read Full Article

HL960A wheel loader – the start of a new series of wheel loadersHyundai Construction Equipment Europe (HCEE) scoops Samoter Technical Innovation Award, in the ‘Medium Wheel Loaders’ category, for t... Read Full Article

A total of four Liebherr wheel loaders at the Samoter stand of the Liebherr GroupSamoter Innovation Award in the wheel loader category for active personnel detection, an assistance system for Liebherr wheel loaders ... Read Full Article

From 1st January 2020, Hyundai Construction Equipment Europe will fit CESAR to all its range of Hyundai excavators and wheeled loaders imported into the UK and Ireland, from its South Korean factory...The CEA’s (Constructio... Read Full Article

Taking technologically advanced routes to break new ground, one of the South West region’s largest civil engineering, earthworks and waste management contractors, MJ Church has returned once again to Bell Equipment for the purchase of a rece... Read Full Article

Doosan Infracore Europe has confirmed new changes effective immediately in the company’s Authorised Dealer network in the Republic of Ireland.EMS (Embankment Machinery Sales), based in Naas in County Kildare, is now responsible for ... Read Full Article

CESAR Emissions Compliance Verification (ECV) will be standard on every JCB EU Stage V and electric machine for the UK market from March 1, 2020. A second label, which can easily be scanned to verify the machine’s emissions compliance,... Read Full Article

Russian construction company ASK Cement is building a cement plant -literally on a green field - near Yekaterinburg in the Ural region. AUMUND Fördertechnik GmbH is significantly involved in the implementation of this greenfield project, ... Read Full Article

Rapid International Ltd has re-entered the concrete truck mixer market with the launch of their sister company Rapid Tumbler – suppliers of premium lightweight truck mixers.Rapid Tumbler’s first product to market is the RTM89 ... Read Full Article

The Concrete Centre is thrilled to be sponsoring the Best Use of Concrete Technology category in this year’s Offsite Construction Awards.The 2020 entries are now open, so make sure you submit your project or innovat... Read Full Article