Materials Handling - Company & Industry News

Teesport, the fifth largest port in the UK, has welcomed the first arrival of a new Containerships service, the BALT VI, from Eastern Europe.The service from Klaipeda, Lithuania, launched in October and provides additional capacity for sh... Read Full Article

Synergies within the AUMUND Group of companies consistently lead to successful outcomes. SCHADE Lagertechnik GmbH, based in Gelsenkirchen in Germany, is a member of the AUMUND Group and an international specialist in the sales, engineering and... Read Full Article

Since purchasing its first Volvo excavators in the spring of 2019, Bromley based Standard Plant Hire Ltd has added a further four, twenty tonne EC200E excavators to its plant hire fleet, servicing the South East of England...The ... Read Full Article

Doosan Authorised Dealer, DMP, the leader in the construction and material handling market on Réunion Island, has held a very successful Doosan Open Day event, attended by more than 100 customer and partner guests.... Read Full Article

Long-standing customer JC Balls & Sons has added a milestone machine to its fleet – the 750,000th backhoe loader made by JCB.JCB marked the production of its 750,000th backhoe earlier this year and now Ambergate-based plant hire... Read Full Article

The large building project of the Munich educational campus requires the executing construction firm Pfeiffer Bau to deliver precise construction work scheduling as well as a high-performance concrete mixing plant. With this project the buildi... Read Full Article

Conveying Equipment from AUMUND operates for years with exceptional reliability...In 1998 Cementownia Warta put AUMUND equipment into operation for the firs... Read Full Article

AUMUND Asia Ltd, located in Hong Kong China, is acting in the Asia Pacific Area and sells AUMUND, SCHADE and SAMSON equipment in all kinds of key industries such as Cement, Mining & Minerals, Chemical and Fertilizer Industry, Ports & T... Read Full Article

A Scottish plant hirer has invested in a fleet of JCB machines worth more than £1 million.Purchased by Broxburn, West Lothian-based Gordon Bow Plant Hire Ltd, the order includes JCB 220X and 140X tracked excavato... Read Full Article

Stubbings Brothers, a full line Kubota dealer based in the Isle of Wight, has achieved a staggering 100% excavator market share in the 0.8 to 8 tonne machine range for the first time in the company’s history.  A family run... Read Full Article

Global building materials solutions supplier CEMEX has invested over £600,000 into its UK rail network this year, to increase safety standards and reliability while providing opport... Read Full Article

EC Surfacing Ltd, based in Brigg in North Lincolnshire, has expanded its machine fleet with the purchase of the company’s fourth new Bobcat S570H skid-steer loader and a new Bobcat E27 mini-excavator from AMS Bobcat, the local Authorised Bob... Read Full Article

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

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

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

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

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

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