Archive for 2008

It is now more than 20 years since my brother Gary and I first developed the concept of a Pin Grabber Quick Coupler for the UK market and in the last 10 years alone we have sold over 200,000 units worldwide. We have continuously spent a large part of our R & D budget on [...]

Miller launched its new fully automatic, universal quick coupler to the market at the Conexpo and SED exhibitions in 2008. The TwinLock Quick Coupler was the outright winner in the Earthmoving category at the recent SED awards of excellence.

Miller exhibited at the Site Equipment Demonstration (SED) from the 13–15th May 2008. The exhibition, held annually at the Rockingham Speedway in Corby, Northamptonshire saw almost 20,000 visitors this year and the second day of the show was officially the busiest in the events 42-year history!

Miller had a new, prominent stand location and saw the [...]

On Friday the 9th of May Miller employees were treated to an unexpected surprise to celebrate the company’s 30th anniversary in business. The Newcastle United and England legend Peter Beardsley visited Miller’s Cramlington facility to speak about his playing career, answer questions, sign autographs and have his picture taken with staff members.

Peter Beardsley played for [...]

In November 2006 Miller announced it had produced one of the world’s largest excavator buckets. The EX 5500 bucket was manufactured for Hitachi Construction Machinery Europe and with a capacity of 29 m³ was the biggest bucket in the company’s history. That is until now…

The image below shows the gigantic PC 4000 bucket, recently manufactured [...]

Manufactured to order products are a growing part of Miller’s business. With a new facility specifically set up to manufacture special application products and a global customer base there really are no limits.

A recent example of Miller’s ability to manufacture high quality attachments for any where in the world was the production of an EC460C [...]

Miller exhibited at CONEXPO in Las Vegas on the 11th-15th March 2008. Held every 3 years, CONEXPO was visited by more than 144,600 industry professionals from around the world.

Miller’s main aim for exhibiting at CONEXPO was to increase the brand awareness throughout North America, promote Miller Compact products and introduce the new Miller TwinLock quick [...]