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29/10/2025Merrill Lynch of L Lynch Plant Hire talks about Hydrogen sustainability and people

Merrill Lynch of Lynch Plant Hire talks about Hydrogen, sustainability and people at Plantworx 2025 before the business won a Special Achievement Award for Sustainability and an Award for Excellence in Workforce Development.

21/05/2025Blackwell Earthmoving recruitment campaign to achieve a 25 female workforce

Blackwell Earthmoving launches '25 in 25' recruitment campaign to achieve a 25% female workforce by the end of 2025, doubling the number currently employed.

15/12/2024How do we get more young people excited about the plant sector

How do we get more young people between 12 to 18 excited about the plant sector? Give them a challenge, a team and create a unique industry competition to build a working material handler showcased to thousands at PlantWorx Construction Exhibition 2025 in Newark on 23rd - 25th September.

29/11/2024Big Bauma BuildUp Ep 3 The Power of Attracting the Right People

🎥 The Big Bauma Show Build-Up: Planning, People, and Purpose with Peter Haddock & Jack Saward

28/10/2024People should not fear autonomous machinery

The recent publication of the Connected Autonomous Plant (CAP) group report from Costain, funded by the Department for Transport, highlighted a £417bn potential boost to the UK economy by 2050.

30/09/20247 year old Joscelyn Lynch on getting people into the industry

How can we get more women into the plant sector?

09/08/2024Lucas talks to Patrick Flannery about skills and attracting young people into the plant sector

Talking about his interview, Lucas said: “It was great to meet and chat with Patrick on the Leica Geosystems stand at Hillhead Show earlier this year.

28/06/202321 year old Callum knows his stuff when it comes to 3D Machine Control with Ongrade

Peter Haddock met up with Callum Shepherdson, a machine control support engineer for OnGrade Machine Control, in the sun at Plantworx Construction Exhibition 2023.

01/06/2023What next for the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors CICES

Peter Haddock speaks to its new CEO, Simon Hamlyn, at the recent GEO Business and Digital Construction Week events about his journey, the future direction of the institution and the important role it plays in the sector.

16/01/202321 year TEST old apprentice operator Ted Powell uses 3D machine control

Peter Haddock of Content With Media interviews Ted Powell a 21 year old uni student who went from sweeping the yard to a 'Fast Track' Plantforce Rentals apprenticeship in his year out.

17/10/2022You need good partnerships and people to move muck better

At a recent visit to the newly opened AccXel training school in Gloucestershire, which has received funding from the KW Bell Group, I caught up with Peter Bell. He is the Managing Director of one of the group's companies, Bell Contracting. Founded as a family business by Peter's father, Keith Bell, in October 1965, I wanted to understand how the business has grown and its approach to the future.

13/10/2022Dan Evans the new Chief Executive of Speedy Services at Speedy Expo

Peter Haddock talks to newly appointed CEO of Speedy Services, Dan Evans at Speedy Expo in Liverpool.

09/08/2022Digital Thumbs Up launched by Lynch Plant Hire and Safety Shield

L Lynch Plant Hire & Haulage combine with Safety Shield for UK's first #Digitalthumbsup visual and audible safety solution, already being fitted to over 300 machines for HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd.

01/08/2022Flannery Operator Hotel offers great accommodation facilities and food for operators working on HS2

Introducing the Flannery Plant Hire Operator Hotel for HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd

11/07/2022Plantforce a safety focused digital journey backed by partnerships people training and technology

Plantforce COO Samuel Mercer talks to Peter Haddock about its safety focused digital journey, backed by partnerships, people, training, technology and much more....

29/04/2022Infrakit and Leica Geosystems collaborate to share data for a connected worksite

Finnish technology and collaboration come to the UK with full project management solution provider Infrakit.

18/01/2022We need to fix our own skills shortage and raise competency levels

As HS2 prepares for its biggest earthworks year to date and the house building boom continues at a pace, the one challenge above all others that faces the plant sector and particularly those that provide operated plant, like Flannery Plant Hire, is tackling the skills shortage.

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