warranty and modifications if required in-house,” he adds. Last year, Holden Plant Rentals was awarded a contract to supply Refuse Trucks with RFID bin weigh and identification to Greyhound Recycling for their South Dublin County Council collection service, this was extended earlier this year to cover the Dublin City Council contract following the Greyhound takeover, The supply contract also includes specialist waste handling and separating plant located at Greyhound’s Clondalkin facility, including a number of purpose-built for waste application Liebherr Material Handlers with high-rise cab facility and extra-long reach along with two JCB 456 Wastemaster’s and 20,000kg excavator’s Appointed an agency for Zetor tractors for counties Kilkenny and Waterford in 1968, HPR expanded into municipal equipment rental – mostly to local councils – in 1989. This end of the business expanded rapidly as demand
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for a business that could both supply and maintain specialist equipment grew. HPR began supplying to the CRH Group, including Roadstone, John A Wood, Irish Cement, Northstone and Irish Industrial Explosives, with loading and compaction equipment, and later
became one of the Group’s primary suppliers of vehicles and plant in Ireland. At the same time, the company began supplying specialist segregation equipment, re-handling plant, refuse trucks, shredders and screens to the waste management sector. Throughout this period, the Holden
The HPR headquarters in Mullinavat, Co. Kilkenny
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