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  • Platinum Edition celebrates 70 years of JCB backhoe innovation

    JCB is celebrating 70 years of manufacturing its iconic backhoe loader with the unveiling Platinum Editio ...

    JCB is celebrating 70 years of manufacturing its iconic backhoe loader with the unveiling Platinum Editions of the 3CX and 4CX models. Company founder Joseph Cyril Bamford CBE invented the backhoe con ...

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  • Euro Auctions instructed by Nixon Hire to conduct fleet rationalisation sale as part of business expansion strategy

    Euro Auctions, Europe’s leading auction house of used construction plant and agricultural machinery, has ...

    Euro Auctions, Europe’s leading auction house of used construction plant and agricultural machinery, has been instructed by Nixon Hire to dispose of assets in a fleet rationalisation, as part of their ...

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  • Half the time at Glasgow

    Working with connected site specialist SITECH UK and Ireland, Caledonia Water Alliance (CWA) has halved t ...

    Working with connected site specialist SITECH UK and Ireland, Caledonia Water Alliance (CWA) has halved the time required to complete a sustainable drainage pond for Scottish Water through using Trimb ...

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  • Piles of benefits

    Akela Ground Engineering – part of the Glasgow-based Akela Group – is now using a specially modified JCB ...

    Akela Ground Engineering – part of the Glasgow-based Akela Group – is now using a specially modified JCB X Series tracked excavator for its piling and foundations work on new housing developments. Thi ...

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  • Boosting the welfare state

    The only way is Essex, well it is when visiting powered access specialists JPS Platforms. CVW navigates i ...

    The only way is Essex, well it is when visiting powered access specialists JPS Platforms. CVW navigates its way to its rural location to find out more! It was meant to be a move that would help accele ...

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  • Plantforce grows up North

    Plantforce has announced a new depot opening as part of its northern depot expansion plan. The new locati ...

    Plantforce has announced a new depot opening as part of its northern depot expansion plan. The new location in Bury, just northeast of Manchester will see Plantforce reinforce its position as a nation ...

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  • Turn up for the books

    Cast your mind back to 1980 and prime minister Lady Thatcher’s oft-quoted words of defiance: “To those wa ...

    Cast your mind back to 1980 and prime minister Lady Thatcher’s oft-quoted words of defiance: “To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the 'U-turn', I have only one thi ...

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  • Racing certainty

    CVW, at Volvo CE’s invitation, gets close up and personal with the company’s latest mid-size electric off ...

    CVW, at Volvo CE’s invitation, gets close up and personal with the company’s latest mid-size electric offering, its L120H Electric Conversion. Equipment manufacturers love choosing novel places to lau ...

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  • One Stage at a time

    Anthony Greatwood, global product manager, Eminox, explains the implications for manufacturers and operat ...

    Anthony Greatwood, global product manager, Eminox, explains the implications for manufacturers and operators of off-highway equipment of Stage VI emissions standards and what the company is doing to a ...

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  • Our friends in the North

    In just nine years Braddan Plant Hire has grown from being a sideline to Braddan Structures, a steel erec ...

    In just nine years Braddan Plant Hire has grown from being a sideline to Braddan Structures, a steel erection company, to being one of the largest independent access hire companies in the Tees Valley ...

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