Construction Industry News
Construction equipment major, JCB has bagged repeat order from Brazil’s Ministry of Agrarian Development for supply of more than 1,000 backhoe loaders. A tender for the same has been inked between JCB and Brazil’s Ministry of Agrarian Development.
This is a very important deal for JCB and we are delighted to have secured the tender for a second year running. It is huge testament to the quality and versatility of JCB’s backhoe loaders and it’s fantastic to win an order of this size as we celebrate 60 years of backhoe loader production this year, states JCB CEO Alan Blake.
The £40 million order for 3C machines, to be delivered throughout 2013, will be used for improving rural roads to ensure food produced for sale gets to market much quicker.
The machines will be manufactured at JCB’s new $100 million factory in Sao Paulo. Transmissions and axles for the machines will be supplied by JCB Transmissions in Wrexham and 12,000 hydraulic cylinders by JCB’s World HQ at Rocester.
The deal is likely to benefits to JCB’s UK factories. The latest order comes after JCB Brazil successfully supplied more than 1,000 backhoes last year to the same customer as part of the first phase of the development of rural roads.
It is a great honour to have been chosen again to supply another 1,000 backhoes that will be used to improve the infrastructure and services of the smaller municipalities. We are really pleased we can contribute to the economic development of Brazil, particularly to support the agricultural sector, says JCB Brazil Managing Director Carlos Hernandez.
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