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JCB APPOINTS NEW NORTH AMERICAN CHIEF AS PATTERSON RETIRES
JCB’s John Patterson CBE, who rose through the ranks from field service engineer to Group Chief Executive, has retired after 43 years’ service. His retirement sees Arjun Mirdha take up the position of President and CEO of JCB in North America, where John Patterson has led operations since 2008 as Chairman and CEO. -
JCBS LONGEST SERVING EMPLOYEES HONOURED AT SPECIAL LUNCH
Long-serving JCB employees who have clocked up a combined 1,500 years’ service had their dedication honoured at a celebration lunch. A total of 26 people were invited to a special lunch for everyone who had served the company for 40 years or more. -
JCBS TAILOR MADE COMPACT RANGE FOR HIRE
The new JCB 8014 CTS mini excavator will make its Executive Hire Show debut alongside JCB’s extensive range of purpose built compact equipment for the rental sector. -
JCBS UK EMPLOYEES SHARE IN 2 MILLION CHRISTMAS BONUS POT
JCB’s UK employees are to receive a £400 Christmas bonus, the company announced today. Around 5,000 employees at the firm’s 11 plants in Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Wrexham will share in the festive payout, which is worth a total of £2 million. -
FIVE-SPEED 457 HT DELIVERS PRODUCTIVITY BENEFIT FOR DUNMOW
Specialist waste and recycling company Dunmow Waste Management has added a JCB 457 HT Wastemaster wheeled loader to its growing fleet, to handle an increasing volume of material at its Chelmsford, Essex head office site. Painted in Dunmow’s distinctive white livery, with highly visual red chevrons at the rear, the machine is equipped with super high-lift loader arms, a 4.5m3 toe-tip bucket and SG Revolution solid tyres. The loader also comes with a full rear radar system, auto lubrication, a weighing system, fire suppression and a deluxe operator’s seat. -
FRED MENCE ADDS 10 JCB 3CX SITEMASTERS TO GROWING FLEET
JCB has won an order worth more than £½ million for a fleet of backhoe loaders made at its World HQ in Staffordshire. News of the deal from civil engineering, plant hire and haulage specialist Fred Mence (Construction) comes just days after JCB celebrated 60 years of making backhoe loaders - a machine invented by company founder Joseph Cyril Bamford in 1953. More than half a million JCB backhoes have been manufactured since then. -
CANCER CHECK RETURNS CHRIS BACK TO HEALTH
IT Systems Administrator Chris Wilde has praised JCB's proatcive approach to employee health after being successfully treated for prostate cancer after it was detected by a company screening programme. Chris went along for workplace health screening offered by JCB in the summer of 2011 after his father died of prostate cancer aged 69. That family link to the condition meant Chris, then 56, was keen to check if he was at any increased risk of suffering the same fate. -
JCB APPRENTICES SCOOP HONOURS AT NATIONAL AWARDS
Talented JCB apprentices have scooped top honours in a prestigious competition which tests their engineering skills and practical and academic knowledge. Both Sion Lloyd and Dan Biggs, who both work at JCB Transmissions in Wrexham, notched up first place finishes in the EEF Future Manufacturing Awards 2013 in a ceremony held at Chester Racecourse. Sion won in “The Outstanding Achievement by a First Year Apprentice Award Wales – Regional Winner” category, while Dan was named “The Outstanding Achievement by a Third Year Apprentice Award – Wales Regional Winner”. -
JCBS 150M PLANS TO CREATE 2500 JOBS WELCOMED BY CHANCELLOR
JCB today announced plans to invest £150 million to expand its operations in Staffordshire and create an additional 2,500 jobs by 2018, which will in turn add a further 7,500 jobs in the UK supply chain (a recent Oxford Economics study concluded that for every 1 JCB job, there are 3 others in the UK supply chain). To mark today’s announcement, The Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt. Hon. George Osborne MP visited JCB’s backhoe loader factory in Rocester, Staffordshire. His visit comes the day after he delivered his Autumn Statement, in which he committed Government funding to unlock economic growth in Staffordshire with a major road improvement project on the A50 trunk road in Uttoxeter. -
A JCB DIGGER TO WARM THE HEARTS OF OPERATORS AS WINTER STRIKES
JCB digger drivers are in for some heart-warming news as the first icy blast of winter strikes. With temperatures plunging to below zero today, the company has announced that a new system is now available on its iconic backhoe loaders that automatically heats the cab and engine before the operator arrives for work in the morning.
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