Family-run Skip East has transformed its recycling operations with the help of powerful and reliable SANY excavators – boosting waste processing by 30% and minimising downtime thanks to exceptional aftercare and service support from Global Machinery Solutions.   Skip East purchased its first SANY excavator in 2023 and has since expanded its fleet. The business now operates three SY155 models and one SY80U, with Managing Director Doug calling himself ‘a SANY convert’.   The machines’ strength and reliability proved vital in clearing the newly acquired site quickly, without diverting staff from other locations. Today, the excavators are integral to daily…

Clyde Coast Contracts are close to achieving one of their ambitions in business: to run a 100% SANY excavator fleet. The Ayrshire based company, which has more than 45 years of experience in the construction industry across Scotland, is clearly a big fan of the brand and recently added another new SANY SY135C to the fleet.   Awesome Earthmovers travelled to Scotland to see this new addition working alongside a variety of other SANY machines on a major construction project to deliver 202 homes on the site of the former maternity unit at Ayrshire Central Hospital in Irvine.   Clyde…

The SANY SY305C is a 30-tonne all-rounder capable of ensuring stable operations day in, day out.   Awesome Earthmovers were on site with DAB Civils as a guest of SANY dealer, Global Machinery Solutions, who have been contracted to an extensive 220-house build project in the South of England.   They caught up with operator Wayne Ward who was working with the civils group on this project. The SANY  SY305C was deployed for creating and filling deep drainage systems for the large number of homes being built. These drainage holes need to be between five and six metres deep, requiring…

The Kiwi Farm Partnership is a King’s Lynn-based arable farming and contracting business that’s run by husband and wife team Will and Alex. They also develop recreational outdoor spaces, such as glamping and camping sites.   One of their most recent projects is the renovation of Holt Hollow, a 15-acre lakeside camping and glamping site that’s nestled in woodland and surrounded by beautiful North Norfolk countryside near Cromer.   Although Holt Hollow was a previously established site, it hadn’t been in use for years and had become very overgrown. The natural lake was also full of silt, leaves and wood…

The Derbyshire Peak District is renowned for its high-quality limestone, which is used to produce a huge array of products from aggregates to make-up. The area contains some of the largest quarries in the UK, which tend to use their in-house resources for extracting the product. However, some use the services of specialist contractors to undertake secondary quarrying work, typically contract crushing, or to develop a specific area of a site.   It was at one such location that we met Banner Contracts, one of the UK’s foremost contract crushing companies. Already undertaking a sizeable crushing operation on another part…

Ely Skip Hire Ltd established in 1985 are a family run business that started out supplying a small number of mini skips locally in and around Ely.   To date, and operating from two sites based in Ely & Cambridge, Ely Skip Hire Ltd has grown to be one of the premier skip hire companies in the area providing skip hire and waste recycling to homeowners and construction sites across Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk.   Doug Stuart, owner of Ely Skips is extremely proud of their green credentials. They aim to recycle 95% of all waste they handle, keeping to a minimum…