SANY excavators will be playing a major role in a £40m upgrade to the water network at Peterhead in Scotland over the next couple of years. Main contractors AG Wilson Civil Engineering, who are based in County Armagh in Northern Ireland, could have as many as 12 SANY models on the site once the project is fully up and running.   Included will be a recently acquired 40 tonne SANY SY390H excavator and two SANY SY215C machines from SANY’s Irish dealer, Sleator Plant. They join a number of other SANY’s ranging from eight tonne upwards, in addition to a SANY…

Whilst working for a contractor in North Wales, Alun Hughes saw an opportunity to offer his services to landowners requiring estate maintenance, something his employer at the time didn’t do. The purchase of a used 8t machine saw Alun undertake several jobs before taking the full time leap into running his own company.   With the estate management work decreasing and an increase in jobs asking him to cater more in forestry works, Alun looked to replace the 8t machine he was running with a small timber grab and upscale to a JS130 with a larger attachment. Once this step…

When Clinton Hastie of Suffolk based Groundwork Solutions Ltd (GSL) rang an old friend to ask what excavator brand he would recommend he suggested SANY. That was just over a year ago, and today GSL has 10 SANY machines and planning to add more in the months to come.   Established in 2011, GSL is involved in a variety of projects ranging from affordable housing and other residential contracts to roads and drainage and is on course to double its turnover this year, such is the demand for its commercial and domestic groundworks services across Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and…

A key member of the team at KM Products in Laurencetown, Paul McMullen is a professional digger driver with thirty-five years’ experience, but he’d never met a SANY before. That was until Kevin Murphy of KM Products bought a SANY SY155U from Sleator Plant.   Paul does all of KM Products’ digging and excavating works and he is also contracted by other companies looking for an expert ‘digger man’, He’s driven just about every excavator brand there is but never a SANY and he’s really liking the experience. “Kevin is expanding his site considerably, and he decided to buy his…

When H&S Contractors were awarded the job of extracting sand from the Nepicar Sand Quarry in Kent they knew they would need something a little bigger than they had available in their extensive fleet, and they had no hesitation in opting for a new SANY SY500H; at 50 tonnes, it is a beast of a machine that has been proving itself for the last couple of months.   It’s a hard type of sand in the quarry and nothing less would have been up to the task of digging it out before it is loaded on to dump trucks to…

When digger operator Alan Mayman was told he was getting a new excavator, he didn’t know what to expect when he arrived on site that morning, and when he discovered it was a SANY SY500H, he still didn’t know what to make of it as he was not in the least familiar with the brand.   But as he has told Awesome Earthmovers, he has been thoroughly impressed by its performance, by its power and by its build quality. “It’s a nice smooth machine, with plenty of power, has a great comfortable cab that is well insulated to keep out…