JCB FACTORY VISIT & LUNCH

In March, a group of ISME Members took the amazing opportunity to venture behind the scenes of JCB’s world famous diggers; this unique tour included historical information, little-known facts, exciting insights and gets you up close to the JCB manufacturing process.

The visit began with welcome refreshments, and a short presentation in the JCB Theatre showing their corporate brand video on the global manufacturing facilities and products. We were invited by one of the Tour Guides to attend a personal tour of the ‘’Story of JCB’’ exhibition.

The tour then took us to the assembly line of the world-famous Backhoe Loader machine; here we saw the process of how the machine is built from the delivery of the sheet steel, profiling, laser cutting, welding, paint shop, assembly and finally the finished product!

To finish we had lunch in the VIP Hospitality Suite with seasonal dishes created by JCB Executive Chef, Alastair Rowe, using the organic produce sourced from JCB’s sister farm, ‘Daylesford Organic’.