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HEAVY LINE EXCAVATORS JCB CEA’S 220X HEAVY LINE EXCAVATOR WILL BE AMONG THE FIRST BATCH OF EQUIPMENT SUPPLIED TO THE AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE AS PART OF PROJECT LAND 8120. ROADS & INFRASTRUCTURE LOOKS AT THE MACHINE’S CAPABILITIES AND JCB’S OTHER MILITARY CLASS PRODUCTS.
JCB CEA’s 220X heavy line excavator has been selected for the Australian Defence Force as part of Project Land 8120.
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n August, the Department of Defence, Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG) awarded a $158 million contract to CIMIC Group’s Ventia for the supply of approximately 300 earthmoving and material handling vehicles to the Australian Defence Force. The contract, part of the Project Land 8120 Phase 1, seeks to provide a replacement capability effect for the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to support ADF’s deployments in Australia and abroad for activities such as construction, demolition, development of protective earthworks, route development
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and maintenance, airfield and port construction and repair, port operations, supply and distribution, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief and beach recovery. Supporting Ventia on the project are a team of equipment partners, including JCB CEA, other key machinery manufacturers, and systems engineering specialist, QinetiQ, to offer the full breadth of services sought by the ADF over the fiveyear program. JCB CEA will supply equipment from across seven JCB product platforms with a diverse range of machines including heavy
line excavators, teleskids, wheel loaders, backhoe loaders, mini excavators, wheeled excavators and rollers. According to JCB CEA Chief Executive Officer Hylton Taylor, this will be the single largest sale of machinery JCB CEA has secured locally, and the largest sale of JCB machinery in Australasia. “JCB CEA is pleased to supply some of our class leading equipment as part of this large-scale project,” Mr Taylor said. “We collaborated in a thorough and extensive vetting and tender process with the highly experienced infrastructure service provider, Ventia, who specialise in the long-term operation, maintenance, and management of critical public and private infrastructure”. JCB CEA will also assist with the development of product specific operating manuals, maintenance specifications and other technical documentation, and where required, deliver operator training programs at Defence sites nationally for optimum use of the supplied machines. TAKING THINGS TO THE EXTREME JCB CEA’s first machine delivery to CASG will be a 220X heavy line excavator from JCB’s new X Series tracked excavator line. JCB CEA National Product Manager Deon Cope explains why the 220X machine is the perfect excavator for operating in rough terrains. “The X Series excavator line was four years in the making before we finally launched it in Australia in 2020. During the development stage, the machine was put through thousands of hours of extreme
