JCB to create 200 jobs for new Staffordshire factory

Construction equipment giant JCB is to create 200 jobs at a new factory off the A50 in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire.

The BBC reports the plant will build cabs to go on the firm’s machines, producing around 100,000 cabs a year – double its current production.

The new plant opens next summer.

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