Piletec supplies piling equipment to the construction industry and is a subsidiary of Groundforce, itself part of the listed Vp group.
Its portfolio of excavator-mounted attachments currently includes only vibrators and pile breakers. However, the new division is now adding mini crushers and shears, multi-processors, grabs, hydraulic compactors and hammers, and digging and re-handling clamshells, to name just a few 鈥� basically anything that uses a hydraulic excavator鈥檚 linkage, the company says, to access new sectors such as demolition, waste & recycling, agriculture and forestry.
The goal is to be market leader within three years.
The business has a sales team of seven, supported by the 25-strong sales team at Groundforce.
Piletec director Bill Gorton said: 鈥淧reviously we had focussed on supplying equipment allied to the piling industry but we found we were losing hires because people wanted a one-stop-shop for attachments which are increasingly being used to save costs.
鈥淭his new business is a natural extension to our current offerings within Piletec and as well as meeting our customers鈥� needs also gives us access to revenue sectors which will benefit from the decades of experience our personnel have built up offering guidance on the best solutions.鈥�
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