Plant Hire News

JCB KICKS OFF ANNUAL CHRISTMAS TOY APPEAL TO SPREAD FESTIVE JOY JCB has launched its fourth annual Christmas Toy Appeal as employees unite to bring festive joy to local children. Since the appeal’s launch in 2022, employees have donated almost 4,000 gifts for distribution to children and young people in the Stoke-on-Trent and Wrexham areas […]

FIRST HYUNDAI DOZER STARTS WORK ON WIND FARM PROJECT DA Johnstone Plant Hire has put the first Hyundai HD130A dozer in the UK to work on a wind farm project in Scotland. The machine joins a range of Hyundai crawler excavators on the Garbet Wind Farm construction site, south-east of Dufftown in Moray. Working for […]

SANY UK is delighted to announce the sale and delivery of its first 80-tonne excavator in the UK. The powerful SANY SY750H has been supplied to the Heritage Quarry Group (South) Ltd, a leading supplier of high-quality, natural British stone products, including building stone, walling stone, and a full range of aggregates and will be […]

ICONIC JCB BACKHOE IN A BOX GOES SUPER-SIZE FOR 80th ANNIVERSARY CROWDS are flocking to see a special 80th birthday installation at JCB’s lakeside HQ in Staffordshire – a full-sized digger presented as if it were a scale model. Visitors young and old have been marvelling at the ingenious display which has an eight-tonne JCB […]

New heavy-duty undercarriage configuration for the Cat® 325 Excavator offers increased stability in demanding conditions Latest heavy-duty (HD) configuration includes HD undercarriage, large final drive and motor, stronger swing bearing, and dedicated 7.5-tonne (16,540-lb) counterweight Long HD undercarriage with oversized 203-mm (8-in) track pitch delivers outstanding stability and durability in harsh, uneven ground conditions Counterweight […]

Hyundai Construction Equipment Europe has appointed respected equipment distributor Helms TNT-Centret as its dealer for Denmark, from January 1, 2026. The company, which has depots in Herning, Aarhus and Ringsted in Denmark and a network of dealers across Norway, is a third-generation family business, offering a wide range of machinery to the construction, agriculture, forestry […]