JCB is investing heavily in its UK manufacturing capability

JCB is investing €9.34 million in its British manufacturing plants as the company gears up for future growth. This is being spent on new machine tools which will further boost component quality and production efficiency. One of the biggest single investments is in €4.67 million worth of machine tools in the hydraulic ram area at JCB’s headquarters in Rocester. The new equipment includes CNC lathes, friction welders, robotic welding cells and an automated assembly cell. The new machinery will provide an addi
March 21, 2013 Read time: 2 mins
255 JCB is investing €9.34 million in its British manufacturing plants as the company gears up for future growth. This is being spent on new machine tools which will further boost component quality and production efficiency. One of the biggest single investments is in €4.67 million worth of machine tools in the hydraulic ram area at JCB’s headquarters in Rocester. The new equipment includes CNC lathes, friction welders, robotic welding cells and an automated assembly cell. The new machinery will provide an additional 20% production capacity for hydraulic rams. Other investments at the headquarters include a new machining centre in the backhoe loader business unit and a new machining centre and robot welder in the loadall business unit.  At JCB’s plant in Uttoxeter over €1.17 million has been invested in robot welding equipment to increase capacity and increase quality at the tracked and wheeled excavator factory. At JCB’s transmissions facility, a new €2.34 million fully-automated axle manufacturing unit capable of producing a maximum of 130 axles/day, has just been commissioned.

For more information on companies in this article

JCB

Related Content

  • Advanced excavator range
    February 9, 2012
    Turkish firm Hidromek is serious about its plans for the future and is gearing up production of its excavator range. High performance is claimed by the firm for its machines, which feature sophisticated electronics and hydraulics as well as the latest low emission engines.
    Read More
  • CTT 2012/CONEXPO Russia visitors up 20%
    June 13, 2012
    A 20% rise in visitors and a 15% increase in exhibitors at this year’s CTT 2012/CONEXPO Russia, compared to 2011 show levels, illustrated the attraction of big infrastructure project spending Russia to the world’s largest construction equipment companies. Major global brands such as JCB, John Deere, Volvo Construction Equipment (CE), Komatsu, Liebherr, and Wirtgen were among the 911 construction equipment companies from 28 different countries present for the five-day event covering more than 124,000m² at th
    Read More
  • JCB celebrating 70th anniversary
    October 21, 2015
    UK construction equipment manufacturer JCB is celebrating its 70th anniversary. The firm was founded on October 23rd, 1945 by the late Joseph Cyril Bamford in a lock-up garage in the Staffordshire market town of Uttoxeter. It was the same day as his son Anthony, now Lord Bamford, was born and as Mr Bamford remarked “being presented with a son tended to concentrate the mind and when you were starting at the bottom, there was only one way to go and that was up.” The foundation for the growth that was to
    Read More
  • 20% more visitors flock to CTT 2012/Conexpo Russia
    June 6, 2012
    Huge commercial opportunities for major construction equipment manufacturers sparked by large investment in new and existing Russian transport infrastructure attracted 20% more visitors and 15% more exhibitors to CTT 2012/CONEXPO Russia. Major global brands such as JCB, John Deere, Volvo Construction Equipment (CE), Komatsu, Liebherr, and Wirtgen were among the 911 construction equipment companies from 28 countries present for the five-day event covering more than 124,000m² at the IEC Crocus Expo in Moscow
    Read More

Highlighted Content