Northumberland-based Miller has carved out a niche for itself over the past three decades. As well as producing buckets for diggers and loaders, it specialises in producing couplers and special attachments for the digger’s hydraulic arms. George Archer finds out how the company is doing after the recession.
While Miller manufactures the kind of bucket you see on the front of your average JCB digger, its main focus is the dealer networks of large, multinational OEMs such as Volvo, Komatsu and Hitachi. While it’s relatively uneconomical to export heavy buckets overseas, attachments and coupler devices are less bulky and thus easier and cheaper…
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