Sims Metal, part of the Sims Group, an international recycling company, has just taken delivery of 22 JCB Teletruk 35Ds for vehicle recycling work in the UK.
It is the biggest single order JCB has ever received for its counterbalanced industrial forklifts.
The forklifts, with a 3.5 tonne (3500kg) load capacity, were built to a specification developed by Sims, JCB and dealer Gunn JCB Industrial, in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
The Teletruks have twin front wheels, full cabs, 360-degree rotators, spark arrestors, and travel speed restriction.
At Sims's End of Life Vehicle (ELV) stations, car batteries and wheels are removed and all fluids drained. The rest is crushed and sent to be fragmented in huge mills.
The JCB Teletruk has a unique ability to reach forward to take vehicles from incoming delivery transports and place them on the ELV rigs, and still operate with turning circles equivalent to conventional masted forklifts, JCB said in a statement.
A JCB spokesman told Forkliftaction.com News he would not disclose the value of the contract.