How are construction OEMs adapting to the circular economy?

Lucy Barnard Senior Web editor

17 February 2023

Construction OEMs are hoping to meet new sustainability objectives with ambitious plans to increase the amount of remanufactured components they produce and the number of certified rebuilds by dealers. But is this enough to transition to a circular economy? Lucy Barnard investigates.

Towards the end of 2021, Sarah Jones, managing director of UK-based plant hire firm Stokey, began exploring the options for replacing the company’s venerable Caterpillar D9 bulldozer which the company had originally bought 14 years earlier and which had clocked up 22,000 machine hours working in quarries around the British…

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