VOLVO DAYS

EDITOR'S WELCOME
The July/August issue of Awesome Earthmovers contains 15

INNOVATION & SUSTAINABILITY
75 YEARS ON... AND THE JOURNEY CONTINUES Today,

PC8000 THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST
There aren’t many places on earth where you

SHEAR EXCELLENCE
Having been in the scrap business since 1970,

CATPOWER
A long standing and committed fan of the

MAKING IT'S MARK
A family run groundworks company covering the South East of England from their base near Gravesend in Kent, Hooper and Sons Ltd recently added a new Kobelco SK270SRNLC-7 to their fleet and it is already making a positive impact on the business, improving efficiency and productivity

TOP TIMBER
A TRIP TO SWITZERLAND TO SEE WHY A SENNEBOGEN 835G IS GRABBING ALL THE ATTENTION

SPOTLIGHT
Five years ago, heavy equipment auctioneer Ritchie Bros. opened its UK headquarters in Maltby in South Yorkshire and today the site, one of 50 the company operates around the world, handles about 2,000 lots at auction every six weeks.

RISING STAR
Construction projects can be fraught with liabilities, no more so than your waste. Not only can the cost of disposal be incredibly high, but you could be throwing away perfectly good material.

VOLVO DAYS
Taking place in Eskilstuna, Sweden, Volvo Days was

PROBLEM SOLVING TECHNOLOGY
When civil engineering and groundworks specialists Gartell & Son won a major contract to be involved in the construction of an ambitious new facility for Numatic International Ltd they knew there would be some challenges on the site around using GNSS technology due to the local topography and the construction of the planned steel frame building, so called on the team at SITECH UK & Ireland to help sort out the issues.

The Digger Girl Review
THE NEW KOBELCO SK26SR-1E

20 YEAR PARTNERSHIP
Blue Group recently marked their 20 year long successful partnership with Doppstadt by staging a three week roadshow to promote the German based manufacturer’s latest INVENTHOR 6.2 slow speed shredder which builds on the success of the long-established INVENTHOR models 6 and 9 and promises even greater efficiency and user-friendliness.

GROUND-UP GROWTH
A FLOURISHING PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN AGROMIN AND POWERSCREEN OF CALIFORNIA

SPEED, SAFETY & FLEXIBILITY
Owen Gillard invested in his first tiltrotator, a second-hand model, in 2014, not long after he set up his own groundworks business and quickly realised the benefits as it turned his excavator into a versatile and flexible machine. Since then he has had nine Rototilt tiltrotators over the years and today he is operating with five of the units.

DEMO DAYS 2024
Bobcat featured more than 90 machines and innovations spanning the manufacturer’s full equipment portfolio at the Dobříš campus in Czechia.

AE NEWS
A round up of all the latest earthmoving news from around the globe

PRECISION SPECIALISTS
THE GROWING PARTNERSHIP OF FORESTRY EXPERTS 'GREENWOR X' AND MACHINERY SPECIALISTS 'FIELD & FOREST'

EASY DOES IT
What can be described as a revolution in the attachments industry that began in Australasia more than 20 years ago is now beginning to make an impact in the UK and Ireland. Attach2 has already transformed the attachments market ‘down under’ supplying couplers and grabs to an ever expanding customer base

COLOR BOOST
THE EDGE TRC622 COLORPRO DYE TROMMEL REVOLUTIONIZING WOOD RECOVERY

POWERBULLY
ALL-TERRAIN TRACKED VEHICLES SET FOR UK SUCCESS