The eight-tonne production line – where engineers produce the largest of JCB’s compact excavators, the 85Z and the 86C – was our first stop on the tour of the plant. Here, we were shown VisualFactory, ...

JCB's new 109-horsepower 400T compact track loader and 4TS tracked Teleskid are the company's largest, most powerful track ...

The 19C-1E model will continue production at JCB’s compact products factory in Derbyshire, with orders coming in from across Europe and North America.

Part of JCB's digger factory in Staffordshire has been transformed into a medical facility to deliver 40,000 Covid-19 vaccinations. The company has teamed up with a group of GPs in the Staffordshire ...

JCB’s first mini excavator – an 801 model weighing in at 1.4 tonnes – rolled off the production line in 1989, when just over 450 machines were made. By 1992 there were four models in the range with ...

JCB’s mini excavators are the best-selling in the UK market and this deal helps cement our position as brand leader.” Travis Perkins is part of Travis Perkins plc, which employs 26,000 people.

By 1992, there were four models in the range and annual production rates had risen to 1,000 units. The 100,000 th compact excavator – a 10-tonne 100C-1 – is one of 22 models in the company’s current ...

Through the new online ordering scheme, the first machines ordered were a JCB 8008 micro excavator and a HTD-5 tracked dumper. Both were purchased by landscaping firm from Dorset, Focal Landscapes.

The 3CX Compact is just 1.9 metres wide and 2.4 metres high and has a turning circle of just 5.8 metres, enabling it to turn in a single carriageway. It's capable of travelling at 40kph and comes ...

Now JCB is ready to re-start production at a factory which has been closed for nearly two weeks as a result of the coronavirus crisis, but instead of making cabs for JCB diggers, the plant is ...