A pink Bobcat excavator has been donated to a manufacturing jobs hiring firm in the UK as a means of raising breast cancer awareness.<\/p>\n
The Bobcat E14 compact excavator — which was painted pink, the color associated with breast cancer awareness — was donated jointly by Promac Solutions Ltd and Doosan Construction Equipment to L Lynch Plant Hire Ltd, a firm that helps match manufacturing workers with jobs.<\/p>\n
For the next year, the vehicle will be towed on a specially made pink transport trailer to hiring fairs, trade shows and other events in order to promote awareness and solicit donations for breast cancer charities.<\/p>\n
At the end of the year, the excavator will be auctioned off, with the proceeds going to breast cancer research.<\/p>\n
Using construction equipment to promote breast cancer awareness serves a dual purpose, according to Mark Kennedy, the hiring firm’s director.<\/p>\n
“While just over one in ten of the UK construction workforce is female, women make up only 1% of the manual trades, and the amount which make up machine operators like grabs or excavators doesn’t even register,” Kennedy told the UK materials handling website HUB<\/a>. “Our industry needs to do more and work harder to dispel the myth that women are not for construction related jobs. Our future success depends on good people — whether they are female or male.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A pink Bobcat excavator has been donated to a manufacturing jobs hiring firm in the UK as a means of raising breast cancer awareness. The Bobcat E14 compact excavator — which was painted pink, the color associated with breast cancer awareness — was donated jointly by Promac Solutions Ltd and Doosan Construction Equipment to L … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,293],"tags":[1079],"class_list":["post-6921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-material-handling","category-news","tag-material-handling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12463,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921\/revisions\/12463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahrns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}