Trime cleans up with award
31 March 2023
Lighting and site equipment supplier Trime has received an award in recognition of its corporate social responsibility initiatives.
Trime competed against more than 500 other nominations…
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Balfour Beatty forms EV charge partnership
31 March 2023
Balfour Beatty has formed a partnership with the on-street electric vehicle charge point operator Urban Electric Networks to install more facilities throughout the UK.
Called Urban Fox,…
Long-life Sany
30 March 2023
Sany has now launched its SY19E electric mini excavator in the UK.
The machine has a lithium iron phosphate battery whose formulation does away with the need for scarce elements such as…
Husqvarna takes the floor
28 March 2023
I’ve been talking recently to several suppliers who report strong interest in electrically powered equipment as it can be used wherever there is a convenient power supply and gives the p…
Electric pros and cons
27 March 2023
Balfour Beatty has shared the findings from a six-week trial in which electric plant was used by its team working at the Edinburgh Biomes project at the Royal Botanic Gardens in the Scottish c…
Lifos targets sustainable power
24 March 2023
A striking aspect of the Lifos business is the care and thoroughness it has taken to develop its range of solar hybrid power systems for use with generators as a way of reducing carbon emissio…
JCB gives energy insights
23 March 2023
JCB has offered some interesting insights into what it perceives as the most practical alternatives to diesel, following the company’s showing of its hydrogen internal combustion engine…
Develon shows net-zero tech
22 March 2023
Machines branded as Develon, the new identity for equipment previously offered under the Doosan name, were displayed at the Conexpo plant exhibition in Las Vegas last week, including several e…
50 million cups of tea
22 March 2023
Insights into how organisations can reduce their carbon emissions were given in a seminar during the recent Distributed Energy Show held in Telford.
In a discussion about industrial and…
New Trime Director
21 March 2023
Trime UK has promoted Andrew Owen to assume the newly created role of Sales Director, effective from 3 April. He was previously Sales Manager.
Andrew joined Trime in 2017 and has experie…
Speedy goes green in Leeds
20 March 2023
Speedy has opened its second sustainable service centre in Leeds, following on from the launch of its A+ Energy rated Milton Keynes Innovation Centre in 2021.
This new low carbon centre…
Tufftruk goes large
17 March 2023
Tufftruk has launched the biggest model yet in its line-up of Truxta battery powered compact dumpers.
The EB800 Bendie has an 800kg payload capacity and, as on the existing machine…
CW Plant’s Trime ton
15 March 2023
Charles Wilson Engineers (CW Plant) is continuing to expand its hire fleet of Trime lighting towers with a further investment in no fewer than 100 hundred X-Eco, X-Eco Solar Hybrid and X-Eco L…
Sunbelt Rentals takes sustainable Shindaiwas
14 March 2023
Sunbelt Rentals is taking delivery of the first 100 Shindaiwa 300A Eco Hybrid welder generators for its Industrial business following on from an order placed last year.
The machine…
How green are your tyres?
13 March 2023
Organisations focusing on reducing vehicle fleet emissions naturally target fossil fuel usage. However, experts are suggesting that more should also be done to address the issue of tyre wear a…
Hilti joins green building organisation
10 March 2023
Hilti Great Britain has become the latest member of the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC), following its focus on sustainability which sees the company aiming for carbon neutrality by the end…
Wernick Power goes Green
9 March 2023
Wernick Power Solutions has invested almost £2 million with the specialist provider Green Power Hire for battery storage units, with new fleet arrivals scheduled weekly throughout the co…
HS2 targets carbon
8 March 2023
To mark International Women’s Day today, HS2 is highlighting the female business leaders behind a software-based system that is helping the project to decarbonise its construction operat…
Specials from Himoinsa
8 March 2023
Himoinsa Power Solutions has appointed Chris Autey as Special Projects Manager, which reflects the growing diversity of the manufacturer’s product range that spans various power and ener…
Nixon’s solar system
7 March 2023
An Innovation Open Day held last week at Nixon Hire’s impressive Bedford depot enabled the company to demonstrate a typical selection of the sustainable welfare, power generation and lig…
Long-life Lifos
6 March 2023
Sustainable energy specialist Lifos reports rapid interest in its recently launched Fort solar PV (photovoltaic) battery storage system.
The product was displayed at last month&rsq…
Trime plants good ideas with 'living wall'
3 March 2023
Sustainable lighting specialist Trime UK’s living wall feature on its Executive Hire Show stand was so good that it deserved a permanent home. So the Huntingdon-based business has donate…
Hydrogen power for river projects
2 March 2023
TCP (Taylor Construction Plant) is supplying the civil engineering firm Jackson with a system incorporating a hydrogen fuel cell to power a site compound in Northamptonshire.
Jackson has…
Prolectric appoints rehire specialist
1 March 2023
Prolectric Services has appointed Malcolm Kershaw as Business Development Manager for ProRehire, its recently established rehire division offering its sustainable lighting and power equipment.…
Understanding scope 3
1 March 2023
When creating a carbon reduction plan, an organisation often finds that most of its emissions fall within what is called scope 3.
Scope 1 emissions occur from sources that are cont…