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Viva Las Vegas

Viva Las Vegas
Saturday, March 1st, 2008

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 [...]

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Jumping For Josie – Mission Complete

Jumping For Josie – Mission Complete
Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Following on from the story posted in August of this year we are pleased to report the tandem skydives have now taken place and all Miller participants are still in one piece!

Congratulations to Melissa Smith, Angela Appleby, Clare Dolan, Stephen Smith and Dean Gibson. Unfortunately Simona Placano was out of the country at the time [...]

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Entrepreneurs’ Adulation

Entrepreneurs’ Adulation
Monday, October 1st, 2007

On the 12th of September Miller received a visit from the Entrepreneurs’ Forum to discuss and view firsthand what makes Miller a successful business.

The Entrepreneurs’ Forum was created in 2002 by a group of the North East’s leading business people. The idea was simple – to create a cross sector peer group of like-minded individuals [...]

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Hillhead Competition Winner

Hillhead Competition Winner
Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Roger Sadler is a man who clearly knows his buckets after weighing up the biggest ever produced by Miller UK.

Roger, from Midgeham Cliff End quarry in Bingley, West Yorkshire, was within just a few grams of guessing the exact weight of Miller’s EX5500 bucket with the Site Solutions team inside, recently unveiled at Hillhead.

Along with [...]

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Jumping For Josie

Jumping For Josie
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

For most people the idea of jumping out of an aeroplane is their worst nightmare but for six Miller employees it is about to become a reality. In late September the group will complete a skydive at Peterlee in County Durham.

The Miller Group is comprised of six people from across the business, from left to [...]

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Miller’s Well Wednesday

Miller’s Well Wednesday
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

This year Miller UK has introduced the Northumberland Health Care Trust’s Healthy People Healthy Business programme into the company. Its aim is to encourage workers to develop healthy lifestyles through various campaigns, promotions and information allowing them to make more informed choices.

The programme has three levels of achievement Bronze, Silver and Gold awards which are [...]

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Mini Miller at SED

Mini Miller at SED
Friday, June 1st, 2007

Miller exhibited at the Site Equipment Demonstration (SED) from the 22 – 24th May 2007. The exhibition, held annually at the Rockingham Speedway in Corby, Northamptonshire saw more than 19,000 visitors this year.

Miller had its usual prominent stand position and saw the show as the ideal opportunity to launch the new Mini Miller hydraulic coupler [...]

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Big Bucket at Bauma

Big Bucket at Bauma
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Miller kicked off its 2007 show season in April at Bauma in Germany. This exhibition is the largest in the construction industry and is held every 3 years in the New Munich Trade Fair Centre.

Although Miller didn’t have a stand this year its product range was on display through the company’s various OEM global customers. [...]

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Miller’s Colossal Coupler Caught in the Act

Miller’s Colossal Coupler Caught in the Act
Thursday, March 1st, 2007

In January of this year Miller reported on the production of its colossal 2.15 tonne Mag 7 coupler. The quick coupler was for a Hitachi dealership in Saudi Arabia and has now been successfully installed, tested and is now in operation.

The Mag 7 coupler needed to be fitted to a Hitachi EX1200 machine and was [...]

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Miller’s Bright Spark

Miller’s Bright Spark
Thursday, March 1st, 2007

Bright spark David Baron has been recognised for his skill and enthusiasm as a welder to be named Apprentice of the Year. David, 20, has been honoured by the Northumbria branch of the Welding and Joining Society. His success follows that of Jonathan Fitton, another Miller UK employee who won the Apprentice of the Year [...]

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