JCB secures £6.5m order from plant hire firm
STAFFORDSHIRE excavator manufacturer JCB has won a £6.5m order from a UK plant hire company.
Lancashire hire firm Buckhurst Specialist Plant has ordered a fleet of 25 backhoe loaders and 100 JCB Loadall telescopic handlers from the Rocester firm.
Buckhurst runs 2,000 machines in total from its bases in Lancashire, Leeds, West Lothian and a brand new depot in Aberdeen. It supplies plant and equipment nationwide to the construction, groundworks and utilities industries.
Buckhurst chairman John Walsh said: “We feel it is the right time to make this sizeable investment and capitalise on the definite upturn we have seen in groundworks projects as more and more new build sites appear. The new machines expand our nationwide fleet and will also increase our presence in the Scottish Highlands – stocking our recently opened a site in Aberdeen.
“We are one of the few companies in our sector to have ridden the storm and actually grown over the last five years – by guaranteeing our customers great service along with reliable, state-of-the-art equipment. This order for the latest JCB technology will only help reinforce that promise.”
The contract follows the announcement by JCB of its third highest earnings in its 68 year history at £31m.
It also reported that the UK construction equipment market is currently the fastest growing in the world, up 50% so far this year.
