MHM promotes HVO
31 December 2021
One of the topics that has cropped up frequently amongst Site-Eco blog posts during 2021 has been the use of HVO (hydro-treated vegetable oil) and its adoption by tool hire and plant hire comp…
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Previous Posts - December 2021
Embracing the challenge
30 December 2021
Launched only in June as an additional area of the blog focusing on equipment and measures that organisations can take to reduce their carbon footprint on the route towards net zero, the Site-…
Glendun’s dazzling year with Trime lighting
29 December 2021
Dungannon-based construction machinery dealer Glendun Plant reports that Trime’s X-Eco LED lighting towers have proved to be its most popular product during 2021, with more than 150 unit…
Landmark Snorkel unit
24 December 2021
Snorkel recently celebrated the production of the 10,000th S3219E electric slab scissor lift at its assembly facility in Elwood, Kansas.
The occasion was celebrated by employees at the f…
Tilbury Douglas cuts CO2 with Speedy HVO
23 December 2021
Construction and infrastructure company, Tilbury Douglas, has partnered with Speedy to help it transition to using HVO (hydro-treated vegetable oil) as an eco-friendly substitute for diesel.
Several right answers
22 December 2021
Christmas comes but once a year and a story in the national media about an entrepreneurial business supplying living pine trees for Yuletide, and then taking them back to replant for future ye…
Self-regeneration brings benefits
21 December 2021
A further indication that more hirers are buying generators with Stage V emissions-compliant engines is a recent order supplied by Himoinsa Power Solutions.
Stuart Energy, the spec…
Must it be a contest?
20 December 2021
Brexit minister Lord Frost gave a number of reasons for his shock resignation over the weekend, announced almost exactly a year since he played a key role in negotiating Britain’s exit f…
Diesels in demand
17 December 2021
Christmas might not be far away but hirers remain busy and as always need to keep pace with customer demands.
An interesting conversation that I had recently with James Mulrooney,…
In the know about HVO
16 December 2021
I’ll bet that many hire professionals hadn’t heard of HVO (hydro-treated vegetable oil) a year or so ago. But with growing interest in environmentally friendly working practices, e…
Vp embraces ESG
15 December 2021
Vp has been adding more environmentally friendly equipment throughout the hire fleets of its group businesses and is also taking steps to embrace its ESG (environmental, social and governance)…
Street-wise with MHM
15 December 2021
It’s often the case that an eco-friendly product offers benefits that make it a better choice from an operational perspective and not just on sustainability grounds.
Such an…
Follow the data with telematics
14 December 2021
More hirers and their customers are achieving environmental benefits and operational efficiencies by using telematics on site equipment.
Iain Curran, business line manager with Atl…
Twice round the world
13 December 2021
Here’s a product range that has 11 patents relating to it, six of which have already been granted and the remainder are pending.
Metal & Modular’s SureLock Pro line…
Speedy on the road to carbon reduction
9 December 2021
The blog has already reported on Speedy’s addition of an innovative electric 27-tonne truck to its access equipment delivery fleet as part of its decarbonisation strategy.
As…
Level benefits from Snorkel eco lifts
8 December 2021
Briggs Equipment has become the first company in Ireland to invest in Snorkel’s zero emission lithium-ion powered Speed Level lifts.
The company recently took delivery of two of th…
‘It was OK until the update…’
8 December 2021
It’s a common frustration. A piece of electronic equipment that was working well suddenly stops doing so after a software update.
It’s typically encountered with comput…
Husqvarna ups the PACE
7 December 2021
Husqvarna Construction is particularly excited about the K 1 PACE cut-off saw, the first of its products that will soon to be launched on its new PACE cordless platform offering heavier duty p…
Robust data gives green value
6 December 2021
Several earlier blog items have emphasised the increasing need for hirers, like other organisations, to assess levels of emissions throughout their supply chains in order to calculate their ov…
Select flywheel saves fuel and emissions
3 December 2021
In a further update on a project they are undertaking, Select Plant Hire and Punch Flybrid say that an innovative flywheel energy storage system is set to save over 80 tonnes of CO2 being rele…
Hydrogen car joins JCB fleet
2 December 2021
To highlight its commitment to hydrogen technology, JCB has taken delivery of the latest Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell car as an addition to its vehicle fleet.
The car is the sec…
What price sustainability?
1 December 2021
Jim Longstaff made contact the other day to relate an experience that made him wonder whether some customers might change their procurement habits in future.
The chairman of Covent…