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JCB has officially opened its new £40 million excavator factory. With its former excavator factory now being dismantled by Armoury Demolition, JCB has officially opened the doors of its new £40 million Heavy Products factory in the company’s traditional Uttoxeter home. That opening is captured here in the last (for now) of our exclusive JCB…Read moreRead more

The Health and Safety Executive has published an updated downloadable leaflet on leptospirosis. The short guide explains types, symptoms and prevention. The disease can be caught when the bacteria enters the body through cuts etc or mouth, throat and eye linings after contact with infected urine or contaminated water, such as in sewers, ditches, ponds…Read moreRead more

Armoury Demolition is taking down the former JCB excavator factory. NFDC member Armoury Demolition is using a host of JCB equipment to demolish the former JCB heavy products factory. Demolition News has exclusive video footage of the kit in action:

Demolition News was granted an exclusive video interview with JCB CEO, Matthew Taylor. To coincide with the official opening of its new Heavy Products factory in Staffordshire, equipment giant JCB granted Demolition News an exclusive video interview with CEO, Matthew Taylor:

JCB has unveiled the JS360, the latest addition to its heavy line of excavators. Earlier this week, the trade and technical press from across Europe descended upon JCB’s sparkling new Heavy Products factory for the official launch of both the factory and the first new product to be developed there; the JS360. In this exclusive…Read moreRead more

Demolition marketing is moving online. I have been writing about demolition and construction for almost a quarter of a century now and, during that time, I have seen my fair share of changes, both in the industry that I write about and in the way in which I receive and pass on that information. When…Read moreRead more

A video of Komatsu’s excavator cab testing has been viewed more than 20,000 times. A brief video posted on www.demolitionnews.com back at the end of August last year has been viewed a staggering 20,600 times! At the time of setting up this site, everyone involved accepted that we would be aiming our content at a…Read moreRead more

A UK demolition company celebrated its 49th birthday with a successful chimney blowdown. At 10 am on Sunday 5 April 2009, Widnes-based J Bryan (Victoria) Ltd, successfully demolished the redundant 105 metre-high, reinforced concrete chimney stack at The Hanson Castle Cement Plant in Clitheroe, Lancashire. The demolition of the 2,500 ton structure made a good…Read moreRead more

A three-handed play with a demolition engineer as a central character has opened in London. I don’t normally write about my own personal life in these pages – let’s face it, who wants to read about me – but last night I had the good fortune to be invited to attend a production of Jez…Read moreRead more

Coleman’s ultra-high reach excavator brings end to slip-form chimney. Birmingham-based Coleman & Company has demolished a 60 metre high slip-form concrete chimney as part of their works with BNHJV. Due to the extremely close proximity of busy railway lines and high pressure C.I. water mains explosive demolition was not an option. This very difficult project…Read moreRead more