Plant Hire UK (PHUK) is buying 450 new JCB machines

One of the UK's leading national plant hire companies has placed its biggest-ever order for JCB equipment, worth GBP25 million (USD33.5 million), as it gears up for growth in the new year. 

Haydock-based Plant Hire UK (PHUK) is buying 450 new JCB machines in the massive deal. The bulk of the order is for 350 Loadall telescopic handlers - a machine which is celebrating 40 years in production at JCB's World HQ in Staffordshire. The deal also includes site dumpers, mini-excavators and tandem rollers.

The machines will be supplied by JCB dealer Gunn JCB on a national basis. 

The investment comes as the company's new HQ in Haydock becomes fully operational. The latest deal means Plant Hire UK's fleet continues to be exclusively JCB and comprises the company's full range of equipment.

Plant Hire UK was founded by Graham Jones and finance director Wayne Illidge. Jones is "extremely confident about the future of the equipment hire business in the UK", citing the opportunities as the reason for the latest order. "2018 is just around the corner and we want to ensure we are well placed to react to the national market's needs next year and that includes having one of the youngest and most innovative machinery fleets around."

In just over nine years, PHUK has bought over 1,800 machines, 1,500 of them JCB Loadalls.