TILLICOULTRY Quarries has snapped up its largest ever Volvo loading shovel after opting against models from other manufacturers. The 35-tonne L250H has been put to work at the firm’s Northfield Quarry on the outskirts of Denny and has been joined by two L120H machines, one of...

Increased demand in most major markets has seen Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) report an increase in net sales of over a third in the second quarter of 2017. The company has seen an increase of 36% compared to the same period the previous year,...

Construction materials group Breedon has doubled its overall revenue despite a decrease in its underlying EBIT margin, its unaudited half-year financial results have shown. The group generated revenue of £326.3 million, up from £163 million for the same period in 2016, with profits before tax...

THE world’s first pink Avant 635 compact wheeled loader has been unveiled to help raise money for charity. Hampshire-based equipment dealers BPMS Ltd produced the machine, which will be on display at all local shows the firm attends this summer before being sold to the...

JCB has reported a 34% rise in earnings for 2016 despite a dip in the global construction equipment market. The manufacturer said it had “defied challenging market conditions” as it announced its annual financial results for last year. Earnings on an EBITDA (earnings before interest,...

A new Volvo loading shovel has made its way to O-I Manufacturing’s Devilla silica sand quarry, based at Bogside near Alloa. O-I is a giant in the glass packaging manufacturing industry and has been operating Volvo machines at Bogside for more than 20 years. The Devilla...

WORSLEY Plant has announced plans to increase the firm’s focus in Scotland this summer ahead of appearances at both the Turriff Show and Black Isle Show. David Marshall, the attachment specialist’s area sales manager for Scotland, has been developing Worsley’s Scottish depot in Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire. The...

KUBOTA UK has strengthened its UK marketing team with a raft of new appointments. Caroline Brown has joined as marketing executive while Shannon O’Connor, Sophie Sprowell and Victoria Nemar have been named marketing assistants. Caroline will handle the day-to-day activities with a specific focus on...

  A FLEET of JCB Loadalls are poised to play a starring role at this year’s British Grand Prix. Fourteen 531-70 telehandlers will provide four days of support at Silverstone. They were sent on their way from JCB’s Rocester HQ with a convoy of trucks led...

A record 3,000 competitors took part in this year’s JCB Mud Run – raising a whopping £70,042 for charity. Now in its sixth year, the event features dozens of obstacles on a specially-created course built on land near to JCB’s World Headquarters in Rocester. £300,000 has...

SIX female engineering employees from Finning helped support the first International Women in Engineering day by taking part in a video to promote the role of women in industry. The Caterpillar equipment dealer said it wanted to promote the day as it provided an opportunity to...

ALTRAD Belle picked up the inaugural Paul Bidwell Memorial Award at this year’s Plantworx exhibition. The award recognises the contribution made to the plant industry by Paul Bidwell, who passed away last year aged 58. Having first worked for Poclain, Paul joined Manitou UK in...

An Aberdeenshire-based concrete manufacturer is now recycling all of its waste materials on site after investing in an MB L200 crushing bucket. Family-owned Inverurie Precast purchased the bucket from Worsley Plant for use with its Manitou telehandler. Prior to acquiring the crushing bucket, the firm...

A lifelong love of diggers and a desire to start his own business led Alan Gow to purchase his first machine – a used JCB 3CX – at the age of 19. Now, as Highlands-based Gow Groundworks marks its tenth year, the firm boasts a...

AN Isle of Bute-based boat builder has recently completed work on a canal dredger custom fitted with a 22-tonne Hyundai excavator, which is now plumbing the depths of Bridlington Harbour in Yorkshire. Ardmaleish Boatbuilding Co. was tasked with building the vessel for Bridlington Harbour Commissioners,...

ADAM Bruce, managing director of AB2000, founded the plant hire company back in 1995. Despite vowing at the time to have a fleet of no more than 20 machines, the business has grown, diversified and today boasts some 400 items of plant and machinery and...

Livingston-based spillage containment firm Empteezy recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. Project Plant’s Fraser Rummens met with founder Bruce Wishart to discuss the history of the business, how it has grown and the attachment that started it all. BRUCE Wishart founded Empteezy in 1986 after he...

AIRDRIE-based plant equipment supplier, A. T. Best Handlers, is the specialist dealer for Manitou in the west of Scotland. The business is run by father and son, Stuart and Richard Rose. Stuart has a long-standing relationship with Manitou going back over 40 years. He explained,...