The UK company, which is based at Swaffham Prior in Cambridgeshire, bought the machine from local authorised Doosan dealer Pioneer Plant.
Having initially been founded as a housing company, Mead Construction is a family-owned business that has evolved into a fully-fledged construction, haulage, plant hire and building materials specialist covering Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Hertfordshire.
The new DX300LC-7 excavator is working at the Mead Construction’s latest investment in a new chalk quarry at Great Wilbraham, where the company is looking to produce agricultural lime for local farmers.
Phil Mead, Mead's plant hire director, said: “We have reserves of up to a million tonne of chalk at Great Wilbraham and the new Doosan DX300LC-7 will play a key part in developing this resource."
He added that the latest venture is another diversification that builds on the reputation Mead Construction has established over the years as a recommended contractor for many prominent organisations throughout East Anglia including the University of Cambridge, Cambridge City Council, Tattersalls, Jockey Club estates, the National Stud, Newmarket Racecourse and the National Trust.
The company also serves local builders, landscapers, garden centres, schools, and property developers.
One area that continues to be busy for Mead Construction is groundworks, with the company undertaking a comprehensive range of groundwork tasks within a 20-mile radius of its base on the Suffolk-Cambridgeshire border. Services include Foundations and Oversites, Drainage, Tarmac work and Paving, as well as Site Clearance work and Service Trenches. The company is an Anglian Water Approved contractor and carries out a wide selection of sewer works.
Started by Phil’s father, Martin Mead, in 1985, the company is a family affair, with Martin’s wife, Pam, and Phil and his brothers, Michael and Richard, now heading up different aspects of the business.
The latest generation Doosan DX300LC-7 Stage V excavator builds on the design of the previous Stage IV machine. It introduces enhancements in operator comfort, machine controllability, productivity, uptime and return on investment, with a strong focus on low fuel consumption, increased power, robustness and versatility.
The cab in the DX300LC-7 model takes operator comfort features a new high quality seat and features as standard 360° cameras to provide full visibility around the excavator and allow the operator to see a top-down view of the area outside the machine.
To meet Stage V engine emission regulations, the new DX300LC-7 is powered by the latest generation Doosan DL08 diesel engine, providing 202kW of power at 1800 RPM. The DL08 engine offers a new solution to exceed Stage V regulations without exhaust gas recirculation (EGR), that boosts the quantity of air available during combustion, increasing the temperature of the process and greatly reducing the amount of particulates produced.
Leicester-based Pioneer Plant is the authorised Doosan dealer for Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire and the PE and NG postcode areas of South Lincolnshire. It is solely responsible for sales and servicing of the Doosan crawler, wheeled and mini/midi excavator, wheel loader, articulated dump truck and attachment ranges in its area.
