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FIRST HYUNDAI DOZER GOES TO WORK ON WIND FARM PROJECT.
  • Industry News
5 min read
19/11/25
FIRST HYUNDAI DOZER GOES TO 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 specialist renewable energy contractor…
ARNOLD PLANT HIRE INVESTS IN UK’S FIRST TELESKID RENTAL FLEET
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2 min read
28/04/25
ARNOLD PLANT HIRE INVESTS IN UK’S FIRST TELESKID RENTAL FLEET
Arnold Plant Hire has become the first UK rental company to invest in a fleet of JCB Teleskid machines – taking delivery of six 3TS-8W models in a landmark deal.Supplied by Gunn JCB, the new machines are fully specified for the waste and recycling sector with factory-fitted guarding and…
Private housing starts are due for a rebound as market conditions improve.
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2 min read
09/07/24
Private housing starts are due for a rebound as market conditions improve.
Schemes valued at up to £100 million – fell by 11% last year but are forecast by Glenigan to firm up by 2% this year before pushing on to grow by 14% in 2025. Glenigan economics director Allan Wilén says: “Housebuilders have a robust pipeline of previously approved developments that can be…
Labour to relax planning restrictions to hit 1.5 million new home target
  • Industry News
2 min read
08/07/24
Labour to relax planning restrictions to hit 1.5 million new home target
The Headline: House building starts to March this year down -22% to 134,780. Home completed down -12% meaning a total of just 151,000 homes were built…the target is 300,000 per year. Labours Solution: The chancellor will deliver her first speech in the Treasury today, saying there is “no time…
Finning Take the High Road & Morning Ferry…to Deliver for Aggregate Industries 
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3 min read
15/02/24
Finning Take the High Road & Morning Ferry…to Deliver for Aggregate Industries 
When Aggregate Industries decided to bring operations at Europe’s largest granite quarry in-house, they challenged Finning to supply a fleet of Cat® machines and complete full operator training, to enable the company to take over operations in just eight months…All without impacting production…
Barratt and Redrow to Merge creating a ‘resilient’ powerhouse.
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2 min read
12/02/24
Barratt and Redrow to Merge creating a ‘resilient’ powerhouse.
Barratt Developments has agreed a £2.5 billion takeover of Redrow in a deal that will cement its position as the country’s biggest housebuilder while allowing it to reduce costs by an estimated £90 million. If approved by shareholders, the tie-up would create a developer with a capacity to…

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