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ConExpo-Con/Agg

JCB backhoes, skid steers and telehandlers rock out with violinist group

JCB’s Dancing Diggers showed up ready to rock last week for ConExpo-Con/Agg 2014. The team of backhoes, skid steers and telehandlers performed with a rock violinist group at the show, dancing and showing off with a few wheelies. Wayne Grayson, online managing editor for our sister site, Equipment World, wrote this about the performance: “In […]

March 11, 2014

Construction Equipment

Backhoes, skid steers, telehandlers wheelie and waltz with rock violinists

Known as the “down-to-earth version of the Blue Angels,” JCB’s Dancing Diggers aren’t ones to turn down a big show. Let alone the largest trade show in the U.S. The team of backhoes, skid steers and telehandlers was in full force at ConExpo 2014 and performed with a rock violin group. In the end, we […]

March 7, 2014

Construction Equipment

JCB intros 8018 and 8029 compact excavators and Loadall 516-42, its largest capacity telehandler

JCB never wastes a news conference, and it’s phalanx of introductions today proved true to form.  The machine intros include the 8018 and 8029 compact excavators. The 8029 CTS, for conventional tail swing, has a 25 horsepower engine and a tail swing just  18.5 inches longer than the 8025 zero tail swing machine. With a 10-foot […]

March 5, 2014

Construction Equipment

JCB’s new 525-60 telehandler offers power in a compact footprint

JCB used the American Rental Association show this week to debut its compact 525-60 Hi-Viz loader, designed to offer the performance of a full-size telehandler within a compact footprint. “It’s just 5 feet 10 inches wide, and 6 feet 3 inches tall, which gives you the ability to maneuver in confined areas,” says Stuart Fox, […]

February 14, 2014

Construction Equipment

What the heck is this massive, spider-like digger in JCB’s “Vision of the Future”?

JCB has posted a video to YouTube that has me asking a lot of questions. It’s titled “Vision of the Future” which makes sense. Cars (are they cars?) are zooming by on floating highways by an also-floating city that looks like it’s made up mostly of buildings heavily inspired by Seattle’s Space Needle. Then we […]

February 13, 2014

Dealers

New JCB, Ruppert, Bobcat and Dynapac locations in this week’s Dealer News Roundup

Welcome to the Dealer News Roundup, your one-stop shop for all the moves going on inside the heavy equipment distributor industry. We post a new edition each week with news on hires, promotions, new locations and expansions. Check back for a new edition every Friday! CSTK JCB joins JCB’s North American dealer network JCB’s North […]

January 24, 2014

Construction Equipment

Diggerland, a construction equipment theme park, is coming to New Jersey

The United Kingdom’s popular Diggerland Adventure Park—centered around a construction equipment theme—will see a U.S. version. According to philly.com, Sahara Sam’s Oasis, a water park located in West Berlin, New Jersey, will open the new 14-acre park by this summer. Sahara Sam’s says it will announce details in a press conference Tuesday. Diggerland Adventure Park, […]

January 13, 2014

Business

JCB is building a $49 million championship golf course, complete with 18th century mansion-turned-clubhouse

JCB plans to build a championship golf course right in its own back yard. The $49 million course will be built mainly for the use of the company’s network of 770 dealers. It is planned as an 18-hole, Par 72 championship course and will be built on 240 acres to the south of the Rocester […]

January 13, 2014

Construction Equipment

JCB appoints Mirdha CEO of North American operations as veteran Patterson retires

JCB has named Arjun Mirdha as the new President and CEO of the company’s North American operations. Mirdha replaces industry veteran John Patterson who has retired after 43 years with the company. Patterson has led the company’s North American unit since 2008 as Chairman and CEO. Patterson will remain as Director of the JCB Group and […]

January 5, 2014

Construction Equipment

Cummins releases “sulfur tolerance kit” for 49 to 675 hp engines

Answering concerns about how machines using its Tier 4 engines can be used in lower regulated countries, Cummins said today it will offer a Sulfur Tolerance Kit for its Tier 4 Interim and Final engines that will allow the engines to operate on higher sulfur fuels. Tier 4 engines require the use of Ultra Low […]

December 23, 2013

Business

JCB’s $244 million expansion plan will create 2,500 jobs in UK

Two new factories and a large expansion are in the plans for JCB as part of a $244 million plan that will create 2,500 jobs in the United Kingdom. The expansion plan will take place over a five year period and will be a huge boost for the county of Staffordshire where each of the […]

December 12, 2013

Business

JCB donates $500k worth of backhoes, generators to Philippines typhoon recovery efforts

JCB has announced that it will send more than $500,000 worth of heavy equipment and generators to aid in the recovery efforts in the wake of the typhoon that hit the Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippine coast on Friday and swept across six of the country’s islands, displacing millions. The initial death toll estimate was […]

November 14, 2013