Kubota’s marketing team to the ‘four’
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...
Silverstone-bound Loadalls set for life in the fast lane
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...
Competitors hail ‘best ever’ JCB Mud Run
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...
Finning gives backing to International Women in Engineering day
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 wins first Paul Bidwell Memorial Award
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...
Crushing bucket provides Inverurie firm with new revenue stream
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...
It’s all in the Wrist
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...
Hyundai sets sail for harbour work
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,...
Getting to know…Adam Bruce
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...
Empteezy does it
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...
Handle with care
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,...
Case hails “highly successful” ScotPlant 2016
CASE confirmed the sales of 29 machines at ScotPlant 2016. The construction equipment giants declared it a “highly successful” show for the firm and their Scottish dealer Hodge Plant. Case had the biggest stand in the event’s history and also attracted a record number of participants in...
ScotPlant cements its reputation as a show where deals are done
ANOTHER fantastic ScotPlant exhibition is in the books, with many exhibitors quickly declaring this year’s event to be an overwhelming success. Unusually great weather helped the build-up run smoothly before visitors were treated to two glorious days of touching, viewing and learning about the latest...
Hird snaps up world’s first MC-815
SCOTPLANT exhibit, Kranlyft, has been involved in the world’s first sale of the largest spider crane ever produced by Maeda. Mini crane and glass lifting hire specialist Hird purchased the MC-815 machine, which was unveiled at bauma last week. The machine is said to perfectly suited to...
Landmark JCB Hydradig deal placed
THE JCB Hydradig will be making its UK debut at ScotPlant 2016 – and the firm has confirmed an order for 50 of the wheeled excavators has already been placed! The deal for the Hydradig 110W wheeled excavators was secured at bauma last week, where the machines...
COPS Recruitment gets set to connect
ScotPlant debutant COPS Recruitment is a professional recruitment company specialising in employment within the building and allied trade industries throughout the UK. With over 30 years’ industry experience, the firm offers only competent operator services. Ex-plant operator and now company managing director, Nicky Davies, said, “After...
Dish of the day!
SATELLITE broadband solutions company, Internet Anywhere, has been working with Scotland’s construction industry for over seven years and currently provides over 300 sites throughout the country with short term connectivity. The firm will be exhibiting at ScotPlant for the first time. Founder and managing director,...
Shindaiwa looks to build on Scottish success
Shindaiwa has ‘generated’ three new Scottish orders in the past month worth in excess of £150,000. The firm is hoping to build on this success at ScotPlant 2016. The trio of orders were from MacGregor Industrial Supplies, Inverness; Palmaris Plant Hire, Aberdeen and Martin Plant...
Yarwoods lands Hartl distributorship
YARWOODS Excavator Attachments Ltd has secured a deal to supply Hartl excavator crusher buckets and screener buckets to the UK market. The Airdrie-based firm has put in place a sales, service and stocking facility of Hartl products to carry out in-house servicing and repairs. Yarwoods has also committed to...
Morris Site Machinery set to ‘Mak’ an impact
STIRLING-based Morris Site Machinery is set to impress as it brings to market the latest innovation from SMC and an exciting new range – Makinex. The exclusive Makinex range of products was primarily built for the Australian hire market, where robustness and reliability are paramount...
