JCB celebrates millionth machine

#jcb #ukmfg #engineering #Hundreds of JCB employees joined in last week’s Mayday celebrations to mark the production of the company’s millionth machine — a silver 22-tonne JS220 tracked excavator.

As part of the celebrations, the whole of the glass frontage of the company’s world headquarters at Rocester was covered by a 900m² graphic.

Each of the 207 windows was individually covered by a section of the graphic, which “evolved like a giant jigsaw puzzle over a total of 50hr.”

JCB chairman Sir Anthony Bamford said: “It’s taken JCB more than 67 years to produce its millionth machine. Incredibly, one third of those machines have been produced in the last six years. Reaching this milestone is the result of a huge effort by the JCB team past and present, and it’s an achievement that everyone can be justifiably proud of.”