Plant & Machinery
Engine investment set to create jobs
13 December 2011
JCB – the world’s third largest manufacturer of construction equipment – has announced plans for a new £31 million engine development project in the UK that will create around 350 jobs across its Midlands and Wales’ plants.
Swiss and Irish buyers at Shrewsbury auction
8 November 2011.
BUYERS from as far away as Switzerland and Ireland attended the latest bi-monthly plant and agricultural machinery collective sale at Shrewsbury Auction Centre.
Auctioneers Halls reported a good clearance rate despite the attendance being slightly down due to some farmers making the most of the fine October weather.
JCB exhibition set to generate new export business
2 November 2011.
THE doors have opened on a multi-million pound customer attraction at JCB designed to generate new business from all over the world.
A unique and permanent exhibition called ‘The Story of JCB’ has been developed at JCB’s World HQ at Rocester charting the company’s links to industry back to the 1820s.
Hot weather attracts crowds to collective auction
14 October 2011.
UNSEASONABLE hot weather brought a large crowd to Halls’ September collective machinery auction at The Gallops, Stanklyn Lane, Stone, near Kidderminster.
Top price of the day went to a Massey Ferguson 8220 4wd tractor with front air suspension, which sold for an impressive £17,500. Other notable prices in the tractor section were £4150 for a Kubota five-tonne digger, £2200 for a Manitou forklift and £1900 for an International 674 tractor with loader.
Stone collective auction attracts large crowd
28 September 2011.
ANOTHER successful monthly collective auction held by Halls at The Gallops, Stanklyn Lane, Stone, near Kidderminster attracted a large crowd and a wide range of entries.
Plant and machinery: Landmark agreement should help cut red tape
1 August 2011.
BASIS and the Environment Agency have signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding, formally recognising more than 30 years in which the two organisations have worked together to raise standards in the pesticide supply and advice sector.
Live internet bidding success at plant auction
16 February 2011.
LIVE Internet bidding proved a success as auctioneers Halls recorded one of their best plant and agricultural machinery collective auctions in Shrewsbury.
Twenty-two bidders from as far away as Poland and Ireland registered to bid online at the bi-monthly auction at Shrewsbury Auction Centre on 4 February, with two securing the lots they were after.
Plant & Machinery: JCB helps workers beat the chill
7 February 2011.
CONSTRUCTION equipment manufacturer, JCB, has ploughed £20-million into developing a new range of diggers to help improve driver comfort and increase productivity.
Plant & Machinery: Farol takes on John Deere turf franchise
7 February 2011.
JOHN Deere is pleased to announce that the Farol branches at Milton Common in Oxfordshire and Hinckley in Leicestershire have been signed as new turf and utility equipment dealers, complementing the group’s established agricultural dealership business.
Plant & Machinery: Live internet bidding set for machinery auctions in 2011
10 January 2011.
PROGRESSIVE auctioneers Halls plan to introduce live internet bidding at the company’s plant and agricultural machinery collective auctions in Shrewsbury in the new year to appeal to buyers both in the UK and around the world.
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