Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

If it is possible and practicable to do so, why do employers still not comply to health and safety standards and lower the number of accidents that happen onsite when operating MEWP-type platforms?According to recent studies from the HSE,... Read Full Article

CASE Construction Equipment dealer Dennis Barnfield Ltd. has recently completed the sale of 12 excavators to Ruttle Plant Hire. This represents Ruttle’s third order of multiple CASE excavators in the last year, the latest of which is destine... Read Full Article

A family run farming and agricultural contracting business, located at Lochmaben near Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway, has recently purchased a bespoke specified Volvo L70H ‘Ag Spec’ to enhance two important areas of its activit... Read Full Article

Continuing its long-established relationship with Bell Equipment, Chepstow Plant has announced the purchase of 14 new E-series trucks, increasing the contractor’s substantial Bell fleet to thirty machines.Ten B30Es and four B40Es jo... Read Full Article

McCormack Demolition, based near Belfast, Northern Ireland, has just taken receipt of the first Stage V CASE machine sold in Ireland. The CASE CX90D excavator was prepared and sold by CASE dealer Cowan Bros NI Ltd, also based near Belfast.... Read Full Article

Following a successful 12-year relationship with LDH Plant in South Wales, CASE has expanded the partnership to a new LDH Plant facility in Middlesbrough. The large, recently opened site will sell the full line of CASE products, as well as the ent... Read Full Article

A new JET-FEED™ Garnet Delivery System from Flexicon automatically feeds garnet directly from bulk bags to waterjet cutters, eliminating worker fatigue, potential injury, labour, spillag... Read Full Article

DTH Plant Hire Ltd of Thurcaston, Leicester is the first to take delivery of Volvo Construction Equipment’s latest offering in the 20 tonne class of excavator with two new Volvo EC200Es... Having had its global debut ... Read Full Article

A fleet of JCB Loadall 540-140 telescopic handlers is providing an essential material handling solution to the UK’s largest infrastructure project. Operated by Bylor, a joint venture between French construction company Bouygues Travaux Publi... Read Full Article

Doosan has launched the company’s first Stage V medium size crawler excavator – the new DX300LC-7 30 tonne model. This new ‘-7’ model offers an unmatched combination of high performance, operating features, fuel efficiency,... Read Full Article

It may be stating the obvious that if the storage and handling steps in bulk materials manufacture processes do not function efficiently, then the process will be directly impacted upon.But, however obvi... Read Full Article

Renowned for its determined commitment to ‘Meeting Hire Demands’ by delivering exactly what the customer wants, plant and equipment hire specialist, L Lynch Plant Hire & Haulage has chosen to expand its extensive fleet with the add... Read Full Article

Oil is the lifeblood of a machine. Regular checks help monitor its health, which is vital for maintaining maximum uptime and and minimum total cost of ownership...It increases profitsOil analysis is an u... Read Full Article

Miller UK invited HUB-4 along to their production facility in Northumberland to take a more detailed look at the new range of GTS & GTX Couplers. As the inventors of the world’s first ever fully automatic coupler, twin-lock and fully cas... Read Full Article

Owned and operated by Tarmac, (a CRH company) Greenwich Wharf is located on the south bank of the Thames, upstream of the Thames Barrier. It is the most central wharf for marine aggregates and since 1987 the wharf has processed more marine sourced... Read Full Article

The new L70H loading shovel was chosen by Proprietors Will and Gill Osgerby, following a successful, competitive demonstration and appraisal of the machine along with a competitive package on offer from SMT GB. “In fact we first saw the mach... Read Full Article

Automation expert Bosch Rexroth has recently made a significant investment in its UK service and repair centre, resulting in a facility with higher capacity, faster throughput and state of the art technology. The new workshop, which specialises in... Read Full Article

You’ll find a Volvo L70H that has just been delivered to W M Osgerby Ltd of Sunk Island near Hull for its muck spreading and contracting business...The new L70H loading shovel was chosen by Proprietors Will and Gill Osgerby... Read Full Article

Metal contamination can have a critical effect on processing lines. Unwanted metals not only result in costly damage to machinery, loss of productivity and downtime but can also impact a company’s reputation on product quality.Eriez... Read Full Article

Glendun Plant Sales, the Trime Group’s official dealer in Ireland, have ramped up their stocks of Trime X-ECO LED lighting towers, as their sales of Trime products continue to expandCommenting on this new order for thirty-six X-ECO ... Read Full Article