Tipperary-based business appoints man to the role of Company Manager in the UK

Birdhill-based construction plant and equipment distributors, McHale Plant Sales, has announced the appointment of Dungarvan-born engineer and construction materials specialist, James Cliffe to the role of Company Manager UK.

In his new role, James will head operations at McHale’s Tamworth and Edinburgh headquarters in the wake of their appointment as UK distributors for Finnish-made Metso stone crushers – equipment that the company also distributes to quarry owners and aggregates producers here and in Northern Ireland.

Hugely qualified in the field of aggregates production, quarrying and concrete products manufacturing, James joins McHale Plant Sales having held managerial appointments within CRH and its Roadstone subsidiary, including that of National Mobile Crushing Division manager and Huntstown Quarry Location Manager, one of the two largest and busiest quarries in the Roadstone network.

Resident in Dublin, James is a native of Ballinamult, near Dungarvan. A former student at Dungarvan CBS, he is a MSc, BSc and BEng graduate of Cork and Waterford Institutes of Technology and the University of Derby.

His industry-related qualifications including studies in Asphalt and Paving, Concrete, Quarry Management, and Minerals Extractives.