CEG - Thu April 08, 2021
VIDEO: Landscaping Biz 'Changes Status Quo'
When Ryan Thrasher left the Army, he started a landscaping business in San Antonio, Texas. Five years later, he packed up his family and moved from San Antonio to Maine, where his business, Canyon Springs Landscaping, has matured and diversified....
JCB - Thu April 01, 2021
JCB North America Cares for Employees With Innovative COVID-19 Measures
From the very onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, JCB took a proactive approach to protect its employees and continues to do so with extraordinary measures. "Out of concern for our employees and as the situation changed, JCB has continually adapted procedures to be the most up to date with CDC recommended guidelines," said Tonya Poole, vice president of human resources of JCB North America....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu April 01, 2021
SGTM Goes Well Beyond Providing Tree Waste Solutions
Tony Raynor is very effusive about his company's versatility and, as he likes to say, the "depth" of its subsidiaries. Tony Raynor is CEO of Sustainability Green Team (SGTM), Astatula, Fla. There is no denying that Raynor is spot-on with his assessment....
JCB - Fri November 20, 2020
JCB's Electric Mini Becomes Machine for All Seasons
JCB will now offer a fully glazed cab on the 19C-1E — an industry first for the electric mini excavator sector. This development will increase its appeal in countries with a colder, wetter climate, according to the manufacturer....
JCB - Thu November 19, 2020
Off-Board Rapid Charger to Suit All JCB E-Tech Machines
JCB has developed a new rapid universal charger, compatible with current and future E-TECH electric models. Working with machine electrical systems from 48V to 96V and above, the JCB universal charger offers customers a future-proofed off-board rapid-charging solution, to allow extended working capability with battery electric construction and industrial machinery, according to the manufacturer....
JCB - Wed November 18, 2020
Loadall Goes All Electric As Zero Emissions Take Center Stage
JCB expanded its E-TECH range of zero-emissions machines with the launch of its first ever electric Loadall telescopic handler model. More than 43 years after the company pioneered the concept of telescopic handlers, JCB is introducing the 505-20E, a full electric version of the popular Loadall....
JCB - Thu October 22, 2020
From Garage to Global Force: JCB Marks 75 Years in Business
JCB was founded on Oct. 23, 1945, by the late Joseph Cyril Bamford in a tiny lock-up garage in the Staffordshire market town of Uttoxeter in the UK. It was the same day his son Anthony, now Lord Bamford, was born, and as Bamford remarked "being presented with a son tended to concentrate the mind and when you were starting at the bottom, there was only one way to go and that was up."The foundation for the growth that was to follow was the manufacture of a tipping trailer made from war time scrap, which today stands proudly in the showroom of JCB's World HQ....
CEG - Thu October 08, 2020
Canyon Springs Landscaping, JCB Make Maine Beautiful
Canyon Springs Landscaping is a veteran-owned and family-operated landscaping firm that is on the move. The company, which serves central and southern Maine, has a portfolio that includes hardscape — patios, walkways, retaining walls, stone veneer and outdoor kitchens — snow removal, light excavation work, and water projects, including ponds, waterfalls, stream creation and fountains....
JCB - Mon October 05, 2020
JCB Celebrates Retirement of Neil Smith
Since 1976, Neil Smith has represented JCB in a number of roles, most recently as the head of the company's North American demonstration team. But you also can find him in the Guinness Book of World Records as the holder of the record for the longest trip made in an excavator, or as the driver of the world famous 100 mph drag-racing backhoe, the JCB GT....
JCB - Mon September 14, 2020
JCB Awarded Share of $600M Defense Logistics Agent Contract
JCB has been awarded a share of a Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) contract as part of the DLA's Heavy Equipment Procurement Program. The contract gives JCB eligibility to provide construction machines, some of which are manufactured at JCB's North American Headquarters in Pooler, Ga., to every branch of the U.S....
