JCB has won a $50 mn contract to supply high-speed backhoe loaders to the United States Army. The High Mobility Engineer Excavators (HMEEs) will be manufactured at JCB´s North American plant in Savannah, Georgia, and will be delivered by 2017. In 2005, the US army ordered 636 of the machines - a JCB contract that was worth $206 mn and which today remains the biggest single order in JCB´s 68-year history.
