G-Series loaders make a Case for design excellence
CASE Construction Equipment has scooped a top design award for its G-Series wheel loaders. The manufacturer picked up the Good Design Award in the industrial category from the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies....
Power equipment specialist helps shoppers get their skates on
TEMPORARY power equipment specialists Mather+Stuart recently brought some Christmas cheer to revellers in Gloucester and Derby by supplying generators to power chillers for ice rinks. Two 200kVA JCB T3A emission synchronised gen-sets were provided at Gloucester Quays while two 150kVA gen-sets were delivered to Derby’s Market...
Christmas bonus ain’t half grand for JCB employees
JCB has announced it is to reward its workforce with a festive bonus of £500. The plant giant is awarding over 5,500 of its UK employees the bonus, its biggest since 2012. It comes in a year in which JCB entered a new sector with...
Bell rings again for Skene Group
AN expansion of Skene Group’s quarries has led to the Fife-based firm buying a Bell Equipment B30E articulated dump truck. Skene has been running a Bell B30D for the past seven years, which will remain in operation. Skene is a major supplier to the construction...
‘Beefed up’ Volvo fits the bill for Borders firm
A Borders-based earthworks and civil engineering specialist has acquired a new Volvo excavator for a long-term crushing project. RJT Excavations Ltd of Jedburgh had added a 40-tonne EC380E to its fleet. The machine is equipped with mass excavation rig including a 2.6 metre dipper arm, a...
Breedon to buy four Tarmac quarries and divest 27 ready-mix concrete plants
BREEDON has agreed to acquire four quarries and an asphalt plant from Tarmac in a £16.5 million deal. The move will be satisfied by the transfer to Tarmac of 27 of Breedon’s ready-mixed concrete plants and a payment £4.9 million cash payment. The deal is...
Family business extends fleet with new Doosan machines
NEW Doosan crawler excavators and a wheel loader have been snapped up by Inverurie-based Miller Plant for the busy Aberdeenshire market. Supplied by Balgownie Ltd, the deal comprises DX225LC-5 22-tonne and DX255LC-5 25-tonne excavators and a DL420-5 wheel loader. Miller Plant’s range of services include earthworks,...
Machine deals give access hire firm a massive lift
BELLSHILL-based Active Access has been ‘lifted’ by the purchase of 50 JCB Access electric scissors. Stewart Plant Sales (a Scot JCB group company) supplied the hire firm with the machines. The order includes eight out of the nine models introduced by JCB Access in its initial...
Keltbray Group launches rail electrification UK-first
Keltbray Group has invested £3 million in six “unique concept” mobile elevating work platform (MEWPs) road rail vehicles for use in the rail sector – a UK-first. Keltbray Aspire provides electrification services on the rail infrastructure and the MEWPs will be used for the installation...
A-Plant division makes £1m investment in winter warmers
Rental firm A-Plant’s specialist division has invested £1.1 million in new packaged boilers and energy efficient heating equipment. Rapid Climate Control, A-Plant’s provider of temporary and emergency solutions for heating, drying and cooling, has invested £600,000 in new 300kW package boilers, along with £500,000 in...
Bargeddie training centre opts for hat-trick of new Volvos
MGS Training has bought three new pieces of Volvo kit for its plant operator training school in Bargeddie, north Lanarkshire. The facility, which has been running for 20 years and has provided training for thousands of operators, runs CPCS accredited courses. Proprietor Colin McGhee has invested...
“A machine-and-a-half”
A Steelwrist tiltrotator has journeyed to the Orkney Islands where it will be put to work on a range of demanding projects. Biggings-based Eoin Muir Plant Hire recently took delivery of a Takeuchi TB295W wheeled excavator fitted with a Steelwrist X12 and floatation tyres. Owner...
Liebherr in the mix for 50 years
LIEBHERR is celebrating 50 years of producing truck mixers for concrete transport. The fifth generation of truck mixer is now in production, with the manufacturer delivering the first one on a Henschel HS22 chassis back in 1967. Liebherr said the type HTM 601 version with...
Are you really ready for winter?
Brendan Aherne, GRITIT’s regional director for Scotland, explains that taking on adverse weather conditions in increasingly litigious times takes careful planning and meticulous execution. It’s just before 6am on Sunday when Steve arrives at the first of his sites, stopping at the gate and leaning...
GAP climbs 28 places in Sunday Times Top Track 250
GAP Hire Solutions has jumped 28 places to 142 in the Sunday Times Grant Thornton Top Track 250 league table. The business has enjoyed a record year, with turnover increasing by 11% to £175 million and operating profit exceeding £17 million. The league table is compiled...
Compact excavator shows touch of glass in Alloa
A Volvo compact excavator has been put through its paces at a glass manufacturing plant in Alloa. The 1.8-tonne EC18D model was supplied to W T Paterson Joinery & Building by SMT GB’s utility dealer, Rockbreakers UK, as a replacement for an older EC15B which had been bought...
New guidance issued on lifting operations with excavators
THE Strategic Forum Plant Safety Group (SFPSG) has released new safety guidance around lifting operations with excavators. A document called ‘Lifting Operations With 180⁰ and 360⁰ Excavators’ is an update on the group’s original guidance publication which was introduced in 2008. Additions are so widespread that...
Demolition man
David Skillings, founder of Skillings Crushing Company speaks to Project Plant about his long-standing relationship with Rammer breakers and Rammer UK dealer Murray Plant OVER the last 20 years sub-contract demolition works firm, the Skillings Crushing Company, has been involved in a range of high...
School of hard NOX
Kinshofer UK recently held two open days to educate potential users on the benefits of the NOX tilitrotators. Andrew Little, Kinshofer UK national sales manager (excavators) spoke to Project Plant about the event Q) WHY DID YOU PUT ON THE NOX OPEN DAYS? A) The...
Finger on the pulse: Pitlochry firm adds Rototilt-fitted excavator to fleet
A Perthshire plant hire firm has recently taken delivery of a Doosan DX170W-5 wheeled excavator fitted with a Rototilt R5. Pitlochry-based R.A Laird Contractors was in the market for a 17-tonne excavator to join its fleet of machines used to carry out a range of...
