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Ridgway Rentals has placed a £12m order with Gunn JCB for 200 new JCB machines for fleet renewal. The order includes both tracked and wheeled excavators, between 13 and 30 tonnes in size, as well as JS20MH materials handlers and 427, 437 & 457 wheeled loaders in response to demand from the waste and recycling sector. JCB Loadall telescopic handlers ranging from seven- to 20-metre reach are also in the order to serve house-builders as well as the agricultural sector. Some of the machines arrived in the second half of 2019, with more arrivals planned throughout the coming months. Ridgway Rentals chairman Tim Jones used to work for JCB for many years before moving into the hire sector with his son Stuart, who is managing director. Stuart Jones said: “Customers ask us fo...

A-Plant has opened its biggest service centre to date near Oldham as a hub for the Greater Manchester region. The new Chadderton depot has 60,000 sqft of workshops and 18,000 sqft of office and training facilities, with more than 100 employees working there. Various divisions including A-Plant Rail, A-Plant Powered Access, Tool Hire Express, Astra Attachment Solutions, FLG Services and PSS Hire all operate from there. Chief operating officer Andy Wright said: “The investment in our new Manchester hub will support our on-going growth whilst further enhancing the service that we offer to our customers across the north. “Our new depot will allow us to serve our customers faster, and with multiple divisions housed in one hub we can also support our Manchester and northwest trad...

TVH, a global player in the material handling, industrial and agricultural equipment industry, launched a new website last week: ‘Humans of TVH' (humansoftvh.com). As the name suggests, the focus is not on the company's products, but on its employees. Among other things, they tell their story about what it's like to work at TVH. With its new website ‘Humans of TVH’, TVH portrays employees who tell about their job, work experience, hobbies, family, passion for travel and more. The idea came from the world-famous website 'Humans of New York', on which residents from different backgrounds are placed in the spotlight with their personal stories. In the same way, with the new site, TVH offers a unique and personal view behind the scenes of the lives of its employees. Not only colleagues ...

Maritime Transport Ltd. (Maritime) has confirmed its order of an additional five new Sany empty container handlers and five new Sany reach stackers supplied by Cooper Specialised Handling Ltd. (Cooper SH), as it looks to invest in machinery at its rail and container terminals and ensure an industry-leading service to its customers’ supply chains. The direct purchase will see three second rail reach stackers stationed at Maritime’s new terminal currently under construction at East Midlands Gateway, due for completion in November, with two H9 reach stackers at its terminal in Tilbury. The five single and double empty container handlers will be distributed across Maritime’s other terminals, replacing some of its original fleet whilst adding to its new and existing operations; all machi...