Some of A-Plant's 1,200-unit JCB order

JCB has secured one of its biggest-ever deals in the UK - an order for more than 1,200 machines and a range of generators worth more than GBP55 million (USD72.23 million). 
  
A-Plant, the UK's leading equipment rental company, has placed the huge order, which includes more than 600 JCB Loadall telescopic handlers as well as JCB rough-terrain forklifts, site dumpers, backhoe loaders and tracked excavators. 

The deal is good news for JCB's factories in Rocester, Uttoxeter and Cheadle, as well as Hixon, Staffordshire-based JCB Power Products, which is manufacturing a total of 162 generators ordered by A-Plant following its first-ever purchase of JCB units last year.
  
The latest order brings A-Plant's business with JCB to more than GBP140 million (USD183.8 million) over the past three years.

All the latest purchases are being supplied through JCB dealer Greenshields JCB. 

The investment reaffirms A-Plant's market-leading reputation for supplying the youngest rental fleet in the plant, tool and equipment hire sector. The equipment will be distributed throughout its network of over 175 service centres.

A-Plant forms part of FTSE 100 company Ashtead Group plc and is the UK's largest equipment rental company with more than 175 service centres, more than 3,600 employees and over 35,000 customers in the construction, industrial, infrastructure and events sectors.