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Briggs and The Brock Metal Company forge new contract

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Date: 4th August 2016

Briggs and The Brock Metal Company

forge new contract

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Cannock-based Briggs Equipment is helping the UK's largest specialist manufacturer of zinc alloys to improve environmental performance by reconfiguring The Brock Metal Company's materials handling fleet.

Briggs has supplied the company with three Hyster J-series counterbalanced electric forklift trucks. The five-year rental contract incorporates full servicing and maintenance support from Briggs engineers.

Part of the Russian-owned Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant, The Brock Metal Company operates 24 hours/

5 days a week from its base in Norton Canes. Each year, the manufacturer supplies in excess of 35,000 tonnes of primary zinc alloys for die casting and galvanizing and zinc and copper for electroplating to 25 countries across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Switching from diesel to electric forklifts enables The Brock Metal Company to reduce operational costs while also reinforcing its commitment to reducing its carbon footprint as part of an exacting environmental policy.

Neil Yates, Operations Manager at The Brock Metal Company, said: "Briggs Equipment has provided us with a complete package that suits us perfectly. The upshot is that we have downsized our fleet without compromising on our handling capabilities, and this instils confidence as we focus on helping our customers to optimise product design and minimise costs."

The Brock Metal Company will use its new high capacity machines to unload 3,500 tonnes zinc ingots from the production line and transfer them to lorries for subsequent overland transport to customers located throughout Europe. One of the forklifts will be used as a dedicated warehouse truck.

Briggs Equipment's Senior Sales Executive Paul Robinson said: "The cost-effective solution we have delivered-includes financing through BE Finance plus servicing and maintenance support through our national network of 600 engineers along with robust Hyster equipment, which is designed for intensive manufacturing operations characterised by long, demanding shifts."

BE Finance is Briggs Equipment's in-house financing capability, which is purpose-designed to offer customers greater flexibility and provides a total asset management solution. It helps businesses lease everything from additional production equipment to commercial vehicles and even a complete warehouse solution.

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Editor's Notes

Briggs Equipment is a unique engineering and equipment provider, which relishes delivering innovation. With a team of more than 600 engineers throughout the UK, the company also provides global equipment and maintenance support though its partnership with the Ministry of Defence.In addition to being the sole UK distributor for Yale and Hyster forklifts, Briggs enjoys strategic partnerships that offer customers a total solution and services all the equipment it sells. So, whether it's new, used or short-term hire equipment, Briggs has a proposition far more reaching than materials handling.The company's market leading fleet management tool, BE Portal, plays a pivotal role in driving up standards of customer service and its in-house financing capability, BE Finance, offers customers greater flexibility. Briggs is transforming the industry by placing customers at the heart of everything it does. Discover more@BriggsUK

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Caption: Neil Yates, Operations Manager at The Brock Metal Company (left) is pictured with Briggs Equipment's Senior Sales Executive Paul Robinson and one of the Hyster J-series electric forklifts.

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