Alliance 2025

January 2026 Issue 261


FREE 2026 EARTHMOVERS WALLPLANNER 

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: KOMATSU PC220-12: Ireland’s first Dash 12 Komatsu excavator has made a good working start.

RUNNING REPORT: HITACHI EX1200-7: The first example of this Dash 7 mining excavator at work in the UK.

RUNNING REPORT: JCB 3CX PRO: Early feedback on Hoskin Plant & Civils JCB Dual Drive backhoe loader.

PRESS CONFERENCE: LIEBHERR: Report from Austria on the latest developments and news from Liebherr.

LEADERSHIP INTERVIEW: MERRILL LYNCH: L Lynch joint managing director Merrill Lynch talks to Peter Haddock.

FLEET FOCUS: PEGASUS GROUP: Case machinery run by a major recycling fi rm in the West Midlands.

EXTREME MACHINE: KOMATSU WA800-8: Latest version of this 100-plus-tonner at Tarmac’s Mountsorrel Quarry.

OWNER OPERATOR: LUKE MOLLOY: Building company has invested in a Hitachi Zaxis 95USB-7 midi-excavator.

SITE VISIT: BRIGHTWELL LAKES: Three towed scraper combinations on a large-scale project in East Anglia.

SPECIAL ADAPTATIONS: HARGREAVES RAIL: Report on the work of a UK-based specialist machinery engineering firm.

SITE VISIT: METROPOLITAN DEMOLITION: The demolition of a particularly tough structure in the middle of Leeds.

MATERIALS HANDLING: SENNEBOGEN 355E: This heavy-duty telehandler features a hydraulically elevating cab.

TECHNOLOGY: VOLVO FMX EV: Banks Mining’s new 32-tonne gross weight electric tipper truck in action.

SHOW REPORT: MAXPO 2025: Specialist machines and attachments at the Finnish machinery show.

EXTREME MACHINES: KRESS HAULERS: The history of the American designer of a variety of surface mining trucks.

FACTORY VISIT: LIEBHERR TELFS: Austrian factory manufactures tracked dozers, loaders and pipelayers.

PLANTMOBILIA: CCM CAT 6040: Latest 1:48-scale die cast model of the Cat 6040 face shovel from Classic Construction Models.

OPERATOR INTERVIEW: D. MORGAN: Insight from two of leading earthworks contractor’s degree apprentices.