The Ringwood-based firm bought 12 machines including two 16-tonne rollers and four tipper trucks worth almost £1.5m.  A further £500,000 in recycling equipment for the minerals and recycling division of the business.

The company has also bought tracked and wheeled excavators, loading shovels and a wood shredder.

Managing director Kelvin White said: “Much of the plant is to meet the needs of the new Raymond Brown recycling facility at our Longparish site near Andover.

“It will help recover, reprocess and recycle around 100,000 tonnes of construction and demolition waste each year. The rest replaces existing plant.”