EDITORIAL LETTER Keeping busy… Hello, and welcome to Edition 36 of THE VOICE magazine – the voice of SMT in Great Britain.
It has been an incredibly busy time, with lots of events taking place across GB and abroad. In April, the world’s largest construction machinery show, Bauma, took place. SMT employees joined the Volvo team for a week in Germany on a busy stand. You can read about the event and also find out about the machines and innovations that were launched on pages 34–41.
In May, our unique Live It. Dig It. demonstration days took place across two weekends near Reading and York. It was great to see so many of you at these events, which are always popular, as they provide an amazing opportunity to test-drive Volvo machines in a working environment. You can find out more on pages 22–29.
The following week, we arrived in Stoneleigh for the inaugural Lets Recycle Live event. This new show provided us with the opportunity to show the EW240E MH working in the live demo area and was an event that we will look to return to in 2021. Find out more about this new event on pages 30–31.
Plantworx then took place across a very wet weekend in June at its new home, the East of England Showground in Peterborough. Despite the weather, many people turned out, and the SMT stand was busy with visitors across the three days. You can read more about Plantworx on pages 14–15.
In addition to these events, it has been a busy time for machine deliveries. Ben Miller has taken delivery of a second EC140ELM (pages 6–9), Standard Plant Hire have bought their first Volvo machines (pages 20–21) while DTH Plant Hire are the first to buy the new EC200E, launched at Bauma (pages 32–33).
We are also delighted to announce that Collins Plant Sales Ltd has been appointed as our Utility Equipment dealer, covering: Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire. This
newly formed division of Collins Earthworks, headed up by Andrew Purse, is looking forward to maintaining and enhancing our position as a leading supplier within this important area.
We also have a new addition to the Marketing team, Alex Cox has joined in the role of Marketing and PR Assistant. In his role, Alex will be managing the Operators Club as well as providing PR and event support. Alex has already hit the ground running, and you can find a couple of his articles in this edition.
I hope you enjoy reading the latest edition of THE VOICE. It is very much your magazine so if there is anything you would like to see more of, please let me know or tweet me @AmyMetcalfeIM
Amy Metcalfe Marketing Director
THE VOICE EDITOR:
amy.metcalfe@
smtgb.co.uk
EDITORIAL TEAM: Mark Gunns, Alex Cox, Amber Mills
THE VOICE is a magazine published by SMT Great Britain, Duxford, Cambridge, England CB22 4QX
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Telephone 01223 836636 /SMTGreatBritain @SMT—GB /SMT—GB 4 THE VOICE MAGAZINE No 36 2019 @SMT—GB
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