Plantforce Draw the Line on Safety with FTC.

As the demand for improvements to safety solutions grows, often the most innovative solutions provide a simple answer in complex environments. This has drawn Tier 1 plant hire supplier, Plantforce, to form a partnership with FTC Group, installing the latest Pedestrian Detection System on one of their new excavators.

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Plantforce Rentals form technology based partnership with Weston College.

No longer do engineers use paper drawings and spray paint to mark out a road formation on the ground, or a stick to measure the fuel level in an excavator, it’s all about fuel efficiency and communication systems. The excavators use telematics systems to report on fuel economy, engineers are designing buildings in cloud-based 3D CAD software which is then loaded on to the machine remotely. In the very same way a satnav tells you where to go, the same tech is used to guide an excavator to grade, manage materials and plan work flows. This is all well and good but nobody has focused on the guy who is driving the machine.

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Plantforce invest 2m into new compact plant division,

May 2019 will see the opening of a highly anticipated brand-new division of the business, “welcome the Plantforce Compact Range”, with a new state-of-the-art depot based in Bristol backed by a massive 2.8 million investment into new highly specked compact machinery ranging from 0.3 ton to 5t cabbed excavators, telehandlers, trench compactors, hi tip dumpers and an industry specific small tools range. The new division of business opening follows a very busy couple of years for Plantforce, who have over the past three years invested 15 million in new plant equipment and last year alone introduced a bespoke rail ready division of the business.

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State of the art loan man working solution.

The company owns a fleet of 93 Hyundai machines ranging from 6 tonnes up to 52 tonnes, which include loading shovels, crawler, and wheeled excavators. Plantforce has recently added another Hyundai machine to its fleet – an HW160 wheeled excavator, which has been kitted out with the very latest in safety innovation technology. The Hyundai HW160W’s transformation began with the installation of an Encgon tiltrotator system fitted with grab and buckets, and a state-of-the-art twin axle tipping trailer. A top of the range Prolec height and slew restriction system was then installed, which also comes with an inbuilt combined weighing system, where a cut-out system is included to prevent the machine from toppling over if overloaded.

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