Breedon Aggregates has bought a wide array of new Caterpillar road machinery
The Scottish arm of UK-based Breedon Aggregates has completed the largest acquisition of 4018 Caterpillar Paving machinery in Europe and the Middle East in 2014.
The last one of the 29 machines have been delivered to Breedon, taking the company’s total investment in Caterpillar Paving machines in the past year to £2.5 million.
Breedon purchased the machines through1413 Finning UK, a division of Finning International, one of the world’s largest distributors of Caterpillar Paving equipment and power systems. Finning put together a package that included 25 utility rollers (11 Cat CB14Bs, 8 Cat CB24Bs, 6 Cat CB34Bs), 3 Cat CB44Bs asphalt rollers and one Cat AP500E paver.
The new machines join two Cat AP500Es pavers purchased by Breedon Scotland and the AP500E bought by Breedon England at the end of 2013.
The rollers will service single-carriageway roads, dual carriageways and motorways under major trunk road maintenance contracts, led by Breedon’s associate company BEAR Scotland, a joint company formed as an alliance of3281 Eurovia, 1662 Jacobs and Breedon Aggregates.
The Caterpillar deal follows a major purchase earlier this year of loading shovels, dumpers and excavators for Breedon’s Scottish quarrying operations.
“After hiring a large majority of our compaction fleet for many years we looked at whole-life costing of hiring versus purchasing,” “It’s not just the functionality of the Caterpillar Paving machines, which are important to our operations,” said Alan Mackenzie, chief executive of Breedon in Scotland. “It’s also the support Finning is able to provide. With a five-year warranty, complete servicing maintenance and a network of branches throughout Scotland, Finning offers the best possible option for keeping our machine downtime to a minimum.”
Breedon secured the very first UK Finning paving deal at the end of last year, noted John Stuart, area sales manager for Finning. “The largest investment of Caterpillar rollers in Europe and the Middle East is testament to Breedon’s growing success within the paving market.”
The last one of the 29 machines have been delivered to Breedon, taking the company’s total investment in Caterpillar Paving machines in the past year to £2.5 million.
Breedon purchased the machines through
The new machines join two Cat AP500Es pavers purchased by Breedon Scotland and the AP500E bought by Breedon England at the end of 2013.
The rollers will service single-carriageway roads, dual carriageways and motorways under major trunk road maintenance contracts, led by Breedon’s associate company BEAR Scotland, a joint company formed as an alliance of
The Caterpillar deal follows a major purchase earlier this year of loading shovels, dumpers and excavators for Breedon’s Scottish quarrying operations.
“After hiring a large majority of our compaction fleet for many years we looked at whole-life costing of hiring versus purchasing,” “It’s not just the functionality of the Caterpillar Paving machines, which are important to our operations,” said Alan Mackenzie, chief executive of Breedon in Scotland. “It’s also the support Finning is able to provide. With a five-year warranty, complete servicing maintenance and a network of branches throughout Scotland, Finning offers the best possible option for keeping our machine downtime to a minimum.”
Breedon secured the very first UK Finning paving deal at the end of last year, noted John Stuart, area sales manager for Finning. “The largest investment of Caterpillar rollers in Europe and the Middle East is testament to Breedon’s growing success within the paving market.”
