SED exhibitor Hewden, has partnered up with the UK’s leading sustainable transport charity, Sustrans. The project aims to help 182 unemployed young people into work, whilst giving them the opportunity to gain practical plant operator skills.
The £3 million plus project, run by Sustrans, will revitalise the National Cycle Network using Hewden plant, including excavators, dumpers [...]
Regular SED exhibitor and Europe’s leading trailer manufacturer Ifor Williams Trailers will be taking centre stage in the latest series of the Welsh popular rural affairs programme, Ffermio (Farming is the English translation), which starts on S4C (Channel 4 Wales) this month.
Ifor Williams is stumping up three of the award-winning company’s top-selling trailers, which will [...]
Ammann and Yanmar have ended their formal agreement in Europe under which the joint factory in France operated.
Going forward Ammann will focus on its global activities in road building equipment while Yanmar will strengthen its European activities to become the sole manufacturer of mini-excavators in Saint-Dizier. The companies will retain post-split ties in specific [...]
The recovery in truck sales (over 6t) continued in August with a 1.4% increase over a year earlier while vans sales (3.5t and below) continue to storm ahead, according to the latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
August saw the second consecutive rise in truck registrations to stand at 1,567 units [...]
Bobcat has improved and extended its range of mixing buckets for its compact loaders and smallest T2250 telehandler. The buckets allow users to mix, transport and pour concrete and cement faster than with a stand-alone mixer and they can discharge by the ‘traditional’ forward tip or by using the side discharge system (with or [...]
SED exhibitor Hewden, has partnered up with the UK’s leading sustainable transport charity, Sustrans. The project aims to help 182 unemployed young people into work, whilst giving them the opportunity to gain practical plant operator skills.
The £3 million plus project, run by Sustrans, will revitalise the National Cycle Network using Hewden plant, including excavators, dumpers [...]
The Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) is seeking feedback on potential changes to the Construction Plant Competence Scheme (CPCS) slinger/signaller (S/S) category.
Currently the S/S category reflects the skills and knowledge required for crane operations and the test has to be taken on a crane with a hoist rope, 360º slew and full radius capabilities. This [...]
Once again Speedy is backing in the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) annual campaign to reduce the number of accidents caused by unsafe ladders by participating in the UK-wide Ladder Exchange.
The hire company, which is a member of the Ladder Association, is offering up to a 50% discount of new ladders in exchange for unsuitable [...]
Ovenden Earthmoving has taken delivery of a bespoke version of Volvo top-weight EC700C excavator.
The 70t machine is equipped with Kocurek long-reach arm to undertake dredging work at the London Gateway deep sea container port project near Thurrock which will be able to accept vessels with drafts up to 16.8m. A triple-articulated boom gives the [...]
Balfour Beatty has revised its guidance for the safe use of quick hitchs.
The new standard specifies that semi-automatic hitches and fully automatics with a single pin latching capture system are not acceptable and sets a phase-out date for manual couplers as the end of 2012. Fully automatic hitches with a secondary locking arrangement (as demonstrate [...]