profile: AB2000
(plus ballast); this also includes a test weight subdivision with more than 250 tonnes of certified metal test weights from 0.25 tonnes to 7.0 tonnes and test weight cradles from 30 tonnes to 100 tonnes.” The division also undertakes contracts for lifting, rigging and machinery movement, services provided by appointed persons, lift supervisors and qualified riggers. “Major customers within this division include Synergy Lifting, MacTaggart & Meikle, JKR Contractors, Thomas Menzies and Timber Frameworks. “Meanwhile, the railway division supplies RRV’s (road/rail vehicles – excavators), MEWPs (mobile elevated work platforms) and has a wide range of railway trailers and specialised equipment and attachments used on railways. Clients of this division include Network Rail, Babcock Rail, BAM Nuttall and QTS. Finally, the Northern division supplies all of the equipment owned by the company from our depots at Nairn and Aberdeen. Customers
include AWPR, Glassgreen, William Donald and D&E McKay.” With AB2000’s turnover increasing from £13 million in 2013 to more than £27 million in 2016 and the company achieving marks of up to 100 per cent at recent Achilles UDBV and Link Up audits for both core and railway plants, the future looks certain to involve further growth. The company recently invested in five new Leibherr cranes, costing up to £1.2 million each, six new
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company should repeat the rate of growth achieved since 2013 over the next 12 months. However, in our present form, we are capable of further increasing turnover, profit margins and profits in the period to 2018. Our strategic vision is to maintain turnover and profits at current levels while recruiting and training management to continue taking the business forward in future,” concludes Jim.
Pump Parts Ltd Pump Parts Ltd has been supplying formwork, concrete pumping, piling and screeding customers for over 20 years. With extensive experience in the construction sector, Pump Parts Ltd has a reputation for high quality products and excellent customer service. Based in the UK and with a modern, efficient factory it specialises in the manufacture and supply of steel pipeline, pipeline brackets, flexible rubber hoses and accessories for concrete pumping. The company looks forward to supporting AB2000 Ltd in its new venture.
Leibherr RRVs and a range of predator trailers; additionally it has acquired MEWPS, Leibherr, Bell, CAT, JCB, SANY, Kobelco, Volvo and Hyundai excavators and a range of other construction plant & equipment. “It is not intended that the
AB2000 Ltd www.ab2000.co.uk Services: Specialists in construction, plant, rail/road machinery, crushing and screening equipment and the supply of mobile cranes throughout Scotland and the UK