Posts Tagged ‘ UK ’

JCB wins £36 million order for 1,044 machines

May 23, 2012
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JCB wins £36 million order for 1,044 machines

JCB today announced it had won a deal for 550 machines worth £16 million from one of the UK’s leading rental firms – with the promise of more orders to follow. The deal has been struck with A-Plant and is part of a phased investment programme which has now seen the plant hirer buy a total of 1,089 JCB machines in the last nine months.

The latest order for 550 machines includes more than 400 mini and midi excavators, including 50 JCB 8085 eco midi excavators, which are 27% more productive and more than 20% more fuel efficient than the model it replaced. The deal also includes Loadall telescopic handlers and rough terrain forklifts and is one of the biggest to be secured by JCB this year. The machines will be supplied through dealer Greenshields JCB.

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UK: Milestone at Sellafield Nuclear Facility

May 16, 2011
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UK: Milestone at Sellafield Nuclear Facility

A major milestone has taken place on the UK’s largest current nuclear project with the topping out of the Evaporator D building, at Sellafield, on the northwest coast of England.

A Costain-Sellafield Ltd alliance will later this year complete the basic structure of the building, which is designed to reduce the volume of highly radioactive liquid waste at the Cumbria site.

It is a project which, for obvious reasons, requires the highest possible standards of build quality. Just designing and developing the initial construction safety case for the £397million project took a year; work on the foundations began in May 2009 and the project is not scheduled to be fully complete until summer 2014.

When in service, it will be used to reduce the quantities of Highly Active Liquor, a product of reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel. The liquor is reduced in quantity by a factor of 20 by evaporation, to reduce the volume of highly active waste that will be vitrified in glass and stored on site.

The liquor will be evaporated inside a highly complex process plant designed by Costain Energy & Process in the Manchester office. The Evaporator D process plant will add additional capacity to the current evaporators...

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UK: Launching today – UK & Ireland edition of Contractors World

January 10, 2011
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UK: Launching today – UK & Ireland edition of Contractors World

Today see's the launch of CONTRACTORS WORLD - UK & Ireland Edition. Readers can register for free copies (by email) here

The publishers of Contractors World Magazines have taken this decision because of the closure of important magazines over the past 2 years - free to subscribe magazines such as Contract Journal, Plant Managers Journal, SEM - Site Equipment Manager, PHE - Plant Hire Executive in the UK. The loss of these magazines means that until now, there was virtually no FREE to read publication for the construction and related industries written specifically for the UK and Irish markets. Readers can register for free copies (by email) here

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UK: JCB launch new range of Toughphone

December 4, 2010
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UK: JCB launch new range of Toughphone

Originally launched in December 2007 and still listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the 'World's Toughest Phone', the JCB Toughphone was an immediate success.

JCB has just announced a new range of Toughphones. Now available in a choice of four handsets to suit a range of budgets, all with unique strengths.

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