£40 million factory move starts

publication date: Sep 26, 2008

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author/source: David Harris

JCB Heavy Products has completed the first phase of its move to a new purpose-built factory representing a £40 million investment in its Staffordshire manufacturing operations. Work on the new facility next to the A50 at Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, started last year.

The first 155 office and shopfloor employees have transferred from the historic town centre factory in Pinfold Street, Uttoxeter, to the brand new 450,000 sq ft facility. The remaining 400 employees will move in phases between now and next Spring.

JCB CEO Matthew Taylor said: “The new Heavy Products factory represents an opportunity for JCB to grow its tracked and wheeled excavator business substantially once the global construction markets have recovered.”