What Parker Plant does

Parker Plant Limited is a privately held UK heavy industrial equipment manufacturer headquartered in Leicester, founded in 1911. The company designs, manufactures, and sells capital equipment used in construction materials processing across four divisions: Crushing & Screening (jaw, cone, and impact crushers plus vibrating screens in static, wheeled, tracked, and mobile configurations), Asphalt Plants (patching, mobile, continuous drum-mix, and modular batch plants spanning 4-400 TPH), Concrete Plants (containerised, mobile, and static batching plants plus cement paste mixers), and Bitumen & Surfacing plus Bulk Handling equipment. Core proprietary technologies include the RockSizer and RockSledger single-toggle jaw crusher architectures, the GC Series high-speed bronze-bushing cone crusher, the Kubitizer fixed-hammer impact crusher, and the Rapide vibrating screen range developed over 50+ years. Products are configured with CATERPILLAR powerpacks on tracked units and controlled via Allen-Bradley PLC-based touchscreen systems.

The company serves enterprise customers in quarrying and mining, demolition and recycling, road construction and surfacing, and concrete production. Parker Plant acquired Phoenix Transworld to significantly expand its asphalt plant portfolio, and now claims one of the most comprehensive asphalt batch and continuous drum-mix plant offerings globally. The business model centres on direct enterprise field sales of quote-based heavy equipment with multi-year project lifecycles, complemented by an aftermarket parts and service revenue stream supported by a global aftersales network. Customer-facing touchpoints include a product-rich website, downloadable brochures, direct telephone sales, and contact forms, with no disclosed public listing, no software APIs, and no AI capabilities in the current product set.

No revenue, headcount change, or order intake data is publicly disclosed. The ownership structure appears to be independent private ownership with no disclosed institutional or private equity backing.

Name

Parker Plant

Legal name

Parker Plant Limited

Website

https://parkerplant.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1911

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

Parker Plant is a UK-based heavy industrial equipment manufacturer (founded 1911, HQ Leicester) selling crushing, screening, asphalt, concrete, and bulk-handling equipment to quarrying, mining, demolition, and road-construction customers via direct enterprise field sales with global aftersales support.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Crushing and Screening Equipment

NAICS

Construction Machinery Manufacturing (33312)

SIC

Mining Machinery & Equip (No Oil & Gas Field Mach & Equip) (3532), Construction Machinery & Equip (3531), Construction, Mining & Materials Handling Machinery & Equip (3530)

akta.pro primary industry

Crushing, Screening & Mineral Sizing Equipment (IMAKANAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Rock Excavation, Blasting & Quarry-Assist Works (IMAFAKAE)

Keywords

• Crushing screening equipment
• Asphalt batch plants
• Concrete batching plants
• Aggregate processing machinery
• Material handling conveyors

Headquarters

HQ city

Leicester

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Heavy Industrial Equipment Sales: Manufacturer and seller of heavy industrial equipment including crushing, screening, asphalt plant, and concrete batching equipment. Revenue generated through direct equipment sales to construction, quarrying, mining, and demolition operations.
2. Parts & Aftersales Service: Aftermarket parts supply and service support for installed equipment base

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Parker Plant manufactures and supplies heavy industrial equipment for construction materials processing across four divisions: crushing and screening (jaw, cone, and impact crushers plus vibrating screens), asphalt plants (batch, drum-mix, and modular systems from 4 to 400 TPH), concrete batching plants (containerised, mobile, and static), and bitumen and surfacing equipment. The company sells directly to quarrying, mining, construction, and demolition companies worldwide, with global aftersales support and spare parts supply for the installed equipment base.

Product overview

Parker Plant is a manufacturer of heavy industrial equipment for construction materials processing, operating since 1911. The product portfolio is organized into four main divisions: Crushing & Screening (jaw, cone, and impact crushers plus vibrating screens in static, tracked, and mobile configurations), Asphalt Plants (from towable patching plants to high-level static installations including batch, drum-mix, and modular plants ranging 4-400 TPH with ancillary equipment), Concrete Plants (containerised and mobile batching plants plus static bespoke installations), and Bitumen & Surfacing equipment. The Crushing & Screening division features the RockSizer/RockSledger jaw crusher, Standard/GC cone crusher, Kubitizer/HD impactor, and Rapide vibrating screen ranges, offered as stand-alone base machines or configured into tracked/wheeled units. Asphalt plants include the SpotMix patching series, RoadStar mobile series, DrumStar continuous mix, and TransMix/StarBatch/StarMix modular systems. These products are sold with supporting ancillary equipment including control systems, dust filters, storage systems, and RAP systems. Parker also manufactures bulk handling conveyors and bitumen surfacing equipment. The company has no software integrations, APIs, or AI capabilities; products are controlled via industrial PLC and touchscreen systems built with Allen-Bradley hardware components.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• RockSizer: Up-thrust single toggle jaw crusher range
• RockSledger
• RockRanger
• ConeRanger
• Kubitizer
• KubitRanger
• Rapide
• ScreenRanger
• SpotMix
• RoadStar
• DrumStar
• TransMix
• StarBatch
• StarMix
• Phoenix Transworld
• ConStar
• SiteMix
• PreMix

Products and services

• Jaw Crushers (RockSizer, RockSledger, StoneSizer)

Quantifiable outcome

• Primary jaw crushing capacities up to 700 tph (JQ1310 model)
• +3 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Phoenix TransworldcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParker Plant acquired Phoenix Transworld's extensive portfolio of highly reliable and quality engineered asphalt plants. The addition significantly enhanced the Parker range and strengthens Parker Plant's standing as a leading name in the asphalt plant market. Between them Parker and Phoenix boast one of the most comprehensive ranges of asphalt batch mixing plants and continuous parallel drum mix plants anywhere in the world.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• McCloskey International: McCloskey manufactures mobile crushing, screening, and stacking equipment with a heavy focus on contractor and recycling applications; the tracked mobile product line competes head-to-head with Parker's tracked jaw, cone, impactor, and screen ranges.
• Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology: Sandvik's crushing and screening division produces jaw, cone, and impact crushers and stationary/mobile plants serving the same aggregate, quarry, and mining end markets as Parker, with overlapping go-to-market and aftermarket models.
• Metso: Metso's aggregates and mining segments manufacture crushers, screens, and mobile plants that directly overlap Parker's core crushing/screening portfolio and frequently compete on the same global quarry and infrastructure projects.
• Powerscreen: Powerscreen's mobile crushing and screening ranges serve quarrying, mining, and recycling end markets with tracked jaw, cone, and impactor configurations that overlap Parker RockRanger, ConeRanger, and tracked impactor product lines.
• Terex Corporation (Terex Finlay / Powerscreen): Global heavy-equipment manufacturer whose Finlay and Powerscreen divisions make tracked jaw, cone, and impact crushers plus screens that directly compete with Parker's tracked and mobile crushing range for quarry and recycling contractors.
• Tesab Engineering: Tesab designs and manufactures mobile crushing, screening, and conveying equipment for quarrying, mining, and recycling — closely matching the use-case, customer base, and product format of Parker's tracked and mobile ranges.
• Kleemann (Wirtgen Group): Kleemann makes jaw, cone, and impact crushers plus screening plants for natural stone and recycling applications; the product portfolio and target buyer (quarry and recycling contractors) closely mirror Parker's RockRanger, KubitRanger, and tracked ranges.
• Keestrack: Keestrack produces mobile jaw, cone, and impact crushers plus scalping screens for quarrying, recycling, and demolition — directly comparable to Parker's tracked mobile programme and the Urban Elite recycling range.

Broad incumbents

• Ammann Group: Ammann's asphalt and concrete batching plants directly rival Parker's Phoenix-and-Parker asphalt range and the SiteMix/ConStar concrete plants across mobile, modular, and stationary configurations in global road-building markets.
• Astec Industries: Astec owns asphalt plant, crushing, and material-handling brands (including Astec, KPI-JCI, Cedarapids) that overlap Parker's asphalt plant portfolio post-Phoenix Transworld and parts of its crushing/screening line within a larger group offering.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/parker.plant.ltd

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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