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JCB has landed its biggest ever UK order for electric equipment after EMR, a global leader in sustainable materials, bought 50 electric Teletruk models, in a deal worth more than £3 million. EMR recycles over eight million tonnes of metals and plastics each year – anything from an aircraft carrier to a can. It has […]

JCB’S £100 million project to produce super-efficient hydrogen engines was given its international debut at ConExpo. A team of 150 engineers is working on the pioneering initiative to develop hydrogen combustion engines — more than 50 prototypes have already been manufactured at JCB’s UK engine plant. On 14 March the wraps came off the brand-new […]

JCB was founded on 23 October 1945 by the late Joseph Cyril Bamford in a tiny lock-up garage in the Staffordshire market town of Uttoxeter in the UK. It was the same day as his son Anthony, now Lord Bamford, was born and as Joseph Bamford remarked “being presented with a son tended to concentrate […]

JCB Chairman Lord Bamford has officially opened a new headquarters (HQ) for one of its most important European businesses in an investment worth around £50 million. JCB Germany, which was founded in 1965, is now operating from a new facility on a 12 acre site in Cologne following one of the biggest investments in JCB’s history. The […]

On its stand at IMHX 2019 JCB will showcase models from the Teletruk range of telescopic lift trucks, including the newly launched JCB 30-19E – the first electric-powered machine in the Teletruk range. The JCB Teletruk is distinguished by a telescopic forward reach boom and was developed as an alternative to conventional lift trucks, which […]

JCB is celebrating its biggest single order from leading equipment rental business Nixon Hire as it invests in a new telehandler machine fleet worth almost £14 million. North East based Nixon Hire has signed a deal for 235 JCB Loadalls, which will join the fleet at its depots across the UK. The deal further strengthens […]