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 Photo caption: HM Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire, James Hawley, presents JCB Heavy Products with a Queen's Award for Enterprise. Pictured centre is JCB Heavy Products Managing Director John Gill and (right) JCB Chief Operating Officer Alan Blake.
JCB Heavy Products has been honoured with a Queen’s Award for successfully growing exports of its range of tracked and wheeled excavators.
Over a three-year period from 2005, overseas sales of the JS range of machines, weighing from seven to 46 tonnes, increased by more than 60 per cent.
The success was rewarded when HM Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire, James Hawley, the Queen’s representative in Staffordshire, presented the company with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise. The Award was received by JCB Heavy Products Managing Director John Gill at a special shopfloor ceremony watched by the company’s workforce in the new $72 million factory in Uttoxeter, which began full production earlier this year.
During the ceremony, JCB’s Chief Operating Officer Alan Blake paid tribute to the “magnificent achievement” of increasing exports and thanked all employees who had contributed to the success.
“During the three year period covered by the Award, we were actually manufacturing our tracked and wheeled excavator range a mile away in a factory in the centre of Uttoxeter that had long since reached its capacity. So, what excites me most as we stand here today, is thinking about what we can all achieve in the future in this fabulous, modern factory,’’ Mr Blake said.
“Once the upturn arrives – and it will – we have the capability to produce 8000 excavators a year here. Or put another way, more than double the number of machines we could make at our old factory.”
This was the 24th Queen’s Award the JCB Group has been presented with since 1969. The 25th will be presented to a sister company, JCB Earthmovers, Cheadle, later this month.
For further information on the JCB excavator range, contact your nearest JCB Construction Equipment Australia branch or phone 1300 JCB CEA.
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