"JCB has announced plans to invest £100 million in a major overhaul of its flagship Rocester plant in Staffordshire, in a move set to safeguard 8,000 UK jobs and bolster confidence in the nation's struggling manufacturing sector. The project will transform the company's historic UK headquarters - originally converted from a cheese factory in 1950 - into a state-of-the-art production facility capable of delivering greater efficiency and output."
"Graeme Macdonald, JCB's chief executive, said the investment would make the Rocester site "almost unrecognisable": "With all the investments we've made in India, the US, China and Brazil over the past 20 years, we needed to modernise our headquarters. "You would never design a factory the way it's laid out today. This investment will make it leaner, more efficient and more cost competitive. We just couldn't build enough - this will finally solve that problem.""
JCB will invest £100 million to overhaul its flagship Rocester plant in Staffordshire, aiming to safeguard 8,000 UK jobs and restore confidence in manufacturing. The project will convert the historic headquarters, originally a 1950 cheese factory, into a modern production facility with greater efficiency and output. Planned upgrades include a fully automated £60m powder-paint facility, shop-floor reconfiguration, and modernised production lines to enable faster, leaner manufacturing. The Bamford-family-owned group describes the revamp as a "once-in-a-generation" upgrade to remove a site seen as an "obstacle to growth" after 75 years. The move follows a difficult year of rising costs, softer demand and US steel tariffs, and comes despite near-£6bn turnover and recent agency role cuts.
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