Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

Equipment rental giant Flannery Plant Hire has added 62 Kubota KX016-4 mini excavators to its massive industry-leading plant fleet, to meet the needs of a specific utility customer. Each of the machines has been paired with an Ifor Williams Digado... Read Full Article

HammerTek Corporation, manufacturer of the SMART ELBOW® deflection elbow, has expanded its operations into Europe with the opening of their headquarters in Barcelona, Spain, according to Basil Ledet, General Manager, HammerTek.... Read Full Article

Arriva Shipping, based in Ølen, Norway, has operated a specialized fleet of modern cargo vessels for more than 50 years. The family-owned company primarily transports bulk cargo and timber thr... Read Full Article

Tarmac has supported the first direct deliveries of aggregates by rail for the new Sizewell C nuclear power station, which is currently under construction in Suffolk.Working with Heavy Haul Rail and DB Cargo UK, Tarmac is organis... Read Full Article

1st October 2026 marks the next stage of the global leader in volumetric concrete mixers Cemen Tech’s growth strategy, with Volumech changing its name to Cemen Tech as the company strengthens its presence across the UK, Europe, Africa a... Read Full Article

Tarmac recently welcomed Anett Bertram, Dutch Minister for Infrastructure and Water Management, to its Santon Asphalt Plant in Scunthorpe to show how materials created during steelmaking can be given a n... Read Full Article

One of the largest engineering programmes ever undertaken on Teesside's iconic South Gare breakwater is now underway, as PD Ports begins a multi-million-pound project to strengthen the structure against increasingly severe storm conditions.... Read Full Article

Signs mutual sales partnership for compact construction equipment to strengthen product portfolios of both companiesTargeting €825 million (KRW 1.3 trillion) in compact segment sales by 2030 as a new growth engine... Read Full Article

Launching today, steel producer Ovako’s new digital Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) tool is the first of its kind to use automated calculations that reduce months of manual work to a matter of minutes... Read Full Article

DCRail was named Business of the Year at this year’s Rail Freight Group (RFG) Awards, after demonstrating excellence in sustainability, safety and driving rail freight growth.The judges praised the company’s investment in p... Read Full Article

Award-winning collaboration continues to deliver carbon savings, remove lorries from roads and drive innovation across UK logistics...Direct Rail Services (DRS) and Tesco have celebrated 20 years of partnership, a milest... Read Full Article

 Heidelberg Materials UK has achieved its ambition to produce zero concrete waste at its Greenwich plant in London.The milestone confirms the site’s credentials as a circular construction materials supply hub.... Read Full Article

Parker Hannifin, the global leader in motion and control technologies, has recently opened the Parker Motion Systems Experience Centre in Offenburg, Germany on 15th September 2026, giving customers and channel partners a single location... Read Full Article

How smarter sourcing can reduce risk and strengthen resilience against supply chain disruptions...The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) reports rising “supply chain anxiety” among businesses ... Read Full Article

SGI Composites celebrates 30 years of composite manufacturing, engineering and innovation from its Colchester headquarters.Founded in 1996, the company now provides complete GRP solutions from survey and technical design th... Read Full Article

Nuclear Transport Solutions’ (NTS) rail division, Direct Rail Services (DRS), has strengthened its commitment to operational excellence with the arrival of cutting-edge driver training simulators.The new simulators will play a key r... Read Full Article

Heidelberg Materials UK is supplying an innovative lower carbon concrete solution to form the basement floors of the redevelopment of 33-35 Piccadilly in London....It is the first time the company’s evoBuild low carb... Read Full Article

Triangle Tyre will continue to build its presence in the European Off-the-Road (OTR) market with its participation at Le Dig Tour Lyon 2026, taking place on 24–25 September in Saint-Bonnet-de-Mure, near Lyon, France.The company will... Read Full Article

RFG today welcomed the Government’s announcement of an interim target for rail freight growth of 40% by 2040, which complements the already established target of 75% by 2050. Government has also published targets for growth in different comm... Read Full Article

More than 20 major machines from Stevens Equipment Rental are helping RJ McLeod turn one million tonnes of excavated sandstone into reusable site material on the Kishorn Port expansion, one of the UK’s most significant dry dock project... Read Full Article