In response to rising demand from the housebuilding sector, MV Kelly has placed orders for more than 130 machines Hitachi Construction Machinery UK (HCMUK) ranging from the ZX29U-3 to the ZX250LC-5. By the time they are all delivered, the company will have 250 Hitachi machines in its fleet.
Over the past 19 years since Vince and John Kelly founded it, the Birmingham-based company has purchased nearly 1,200 excavators from HCMUK.
Approximately 75% of the new Zaxis machines are direct replacements for the existing fleet that has reached the end of MV Kelly鈥檚 three-year replenishment cycle. The remaining 25% represent fleet growth and will replace rented machines that were temporarily drafted in to meet demand.
鈥淭here are four main reasons for choosing Hitachi construction machinery: ability, reliability, service and residual value,鈥� said MV Kelly director Brian Kelly. 鈥淭hese attributes make Zaxis excavators the best machines available in today鈥檚 market.鈥�
The operators also speak highly of them. Michael Currin, an operator for 20 years, said: 鈥淚 operate a ZX130LCN-5 for digging trenches for foundations and sewers. It鈥檚 a very stable and well balanced excavator, even when it鈥檚 at full stretch with a heavy load. Nothing else compares to Hitachi and this is an excellent machine 鈥� as good as anything else I鈥檝e used.鈥�
Colleague Neville Cooper added: 鈥淭he power of the engine and finesse of the hydraulics mean that this new Zaxis-5 excavator is so smooth and easy to operate.鈥�
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