Staff at JCB Power Systems celebrate the production of the company’s 500,000th engine
Half a million and counting as major engine milestone marked
A JCB business which has powered its way to international success has celebrated the production of half a million engines - enough to stretch from London to Paris. Four cylinder diesel engines first
began rolling off the line at JCB Power Systems in Derbyshire in November 2004 when the company employed just 64 people and in the first year of production less than 10,000 engines were produced. The Foston-based business has grown dramatically since then and the workforce now stands at almost 400. Now employees have celebrated
the production of the 500,000th engine and staggeringly, if all half million engines were laid out end- to-end, they would stretch from London to Paris. It took eight years to build the first 200,000 JCB engines and only
‘We have complete control over our engine technology and production, giving us the freedom to innovate’
five years to build the next 300,000 – highlighting the rapid growth in the business. The expansion also saw JCB India begin production of engines in 2010 at its headquarters near Delhi. 2017 has been a milestone year
for JCB Power Systems. The company has invested £10m at its Foston plant in new centres and associated automated processes. This investment alone has created around 30 new jobs and allowed the company to produce cylinder heads, engine blocks and bedplates in-house for the first time, boosting efficiency and ensuring that very demanding quality targets are met. Production has also started on a
brand-new fuel-efficient 3-litre JCB engine following the culmination of a £31m investment programme which included support of £4.5m from the Government’s Regional Growth Fund. It is the third engine line to be launched by JCB since production first started. In 2016 the company also
celebrated winning two Queen’s Awards, including one for Innovation, for the development of the JCB EcoMax engine, with its low-emission combustion system. The other award was for
international trade, recognising growth in overseas third party sales by more than 325% between 2012 and 2014.
JCB Chairman Lord Bamford
said: “There have been many great achievements at JCB over the years and engine manufacturing is a truly great success story. In 2004 we relied entirely on external suppliers for our engines. Today the JCB engine powers more than 70% of the machines JCB makes and we sell it very successfully to other manufacturers for a wide variety of uses. “What is more important is that
we have complete control over our engine technology and production, giving us the freedom to innovate and to offer our customers engines which are clean, fuel efficient, easy to maintain and economical. Production of half a million engines is a wonderful milestone and I congratulate the whole team for achieving such a momentous landmark.”
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