JCB to supply equipment to ADF

JCB has announced it has been enlisted as one of several equipment suppliers tasked to deliver a range of earthmoving machinery to the Australian Defence Force as part of its Land 8120 Phase 1 project.

Prime contractor, Ventia, brought together JCB CEA, other key machinery manufacturers and systems engineering specialist, QinetiQ, to offer the full breadth of engineering support platforms and services sought by the ADF over five years.

Some equipment JCB CEA will provide the ADF include heavy line excavators, teleskids, wheel loaders, backhoe loaders, mini excavators, wheeled excavators and rollers.

“JCB CEA is pleased to supply some of our class leading equipment as part of this large-scale project”, said JCB CEA CEO, Hylton Taylor.

“This will be the single largest sale of machinery JCB CEA has secured locally, and the largest sale of JCB machinery in Australasia.”

“We collaborated in a thorough and extensive vetting and tender process with the highly experienced infrastructure service provider, Ventia, who specialise in the long-term operation, maintenance, and management of critical public and private infrastructure”.

JCB CEA will also assist with the development of product specific operating manuals, maintenance specifications and other technical documentation, and where required, deliver operator training programs at Defence sites nationally for optimum use of the supplied machines.

The first machine delivery will be a JCB 220X heavy line excavator.

“We look forward to the handover of this machine and the many more to follow over the coming years”, Taylor said.

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