JCB (company)
Joseph Cyril Bamford (short: JCB) is a British manufacturer of construction, industrial and agricultural machinery headquartered in Rocester in the English county of Staffordshire on about 175 acres ( 43.75 hectares) of land. The company employs approximately 10,000 people and is privately owned by the Bamford family. The chairman Lord Bamford is the son of the late 2001 the company's founder. His son Jo Bamford leads since 2011 the division JCB Compact Products.
In the market for construction JCB is the third largest producer in the world and according to his own statement, the biggest in Europe.
History
The Story of JCB's global ascent began in Staffordshire in a very small scale. On October 23, 1945 Joseph Cyril Bamford launched, commonly known as "Mr. JCB ", with the production of its first product in a rented garage in Uttoxeter. With a welding machine, which he had purchased second-hand for £ 1, Bamford made of recycled materials from an agricultural trailer, which he sold for £ 45 on the urban market. He used the money to purchase new materials. This was the birth of a large mechanical engineering company.
1968 you take over with Chaseside a British manufacturer of construction machinery, but especially of wheel loaders.
1990 one might find on the Smithfield Show in London with the Fastrac own tractor that came on the market a year later.
1995, they met with Renault Agriculture a distribution agreement under which Renault will sell the Fastrac and telescopic loaders from JCB in France.
In 2004, the company presented a historic milestone on its way to success: the production of the 500,000 th JCB machine. As Europe's largest manufacturer of construction machinery company exports 75 % of its products in over 150 countries.
2005, in the 60th year of existence, JCB has sold more than 45,000 machines. In the 65th year of existence, 2010, the Company sold 51,600 machines worldwide.
Works
JCB manufactures in 20 plants on four continents. Ten plants are located in England, three in India and one work consists in the United States, Brazil, Germany and China. There are also subsidiaries in France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Spain and Singapore.
Products
The company manufactures more than 300 different machines including: backhoe loaders, telescopic loaders, tracked and wheeled excavators, wheel loaders, dump trucks, rough terrain truck, mini excavators, skid steer loaders, JCB Vibromax compaction machinery and equipment for garden and landscape maintenance.
In addition, JCB produces a range of wheel loaders, telehandlers and Fastrac tractors for the agricultural sector. For the industrial sector beyond the telescopic forklift Teletruk is made.
Wheel Loader 407
Backhoe Loader 3CX
Telescopic handlers ( Loadall )
8250
World Record
In 2004 went to an investment of 80 million pounds, developed by JCB diesel engine for off-highway vehicles in production. The newly developed engine proved to be extremely robust and reliable.
To document the performance JCB attempted, using a specially developed race car, which is equipped with two 750 - hp engines JCB Diesel Max to break the existing speed record for diesel-powered land vehicles. With 563.418 km / h this was achieved on 23 August 2006. The previous record was surpassed by almost 50 percent.