Greenfield buys kit to reduce hiring costs

Durham-based civil engineering contractor Greenfield has invested £350,000 in new plant and equipment after analysing the amount it spent on plant hire and the availability of kit.

According to director Nick Redpath: "Not only was it costly to keep hiring the plant we needed, it was also limiting the level of business we could achieve. Certain machines were not always available when we wanted them, and staff were spending too much time arranging hire and scheduling our own fleet of equipment across a range of jobs."

The new kit includes a self-propelled Caterpillar roller, which Redpath said is in short supply in the region. Other kit covered ranges from two JCB backhoes and a JS220 excavator to a Caterpillar D6 dozer and a Volvo A25 dump truck.

"We decided the level of business justified the investment, particularly as it means we can hire out any extra capacity machines through our plant hire division," Redpath added.