The Hornsby-based equipment company will be moving into the last block facing the Newell Highway, leaving just two more blocks left to sell in the industrial area at Daroobalgie.

Forbes Shire Council’s general manager Brian Steffen said Clark Equipment will be moving part of their operation from Hornsby to the “ideal location” of Forbes, creating up to 100 jobs.

Mr Steffen said those jobs will be a mix of new jobs as well as people relocating from the Hornsby site to Forbes.

“We are very excited,” he said.

“It has been a lot of hard work over the past two years, but we got there in the end.”

Clark Equipment is an Australian, family-owned company that has been supplying and supporting equipment for over 60 years.

They sell the big names in equipment to the construction, infrastructure, agricultural, mining, materials handling and logistics sectors of the economy. 

Mr Steffen said it could be up to two years until the company are fully established in Forbes but it could be sooner than that.

Securing Clark Equipment means a lot for the growth of Forbes.

“It backs us with the assurance that large businesses have a confidence to come to Forbes,” Mr Steffen said.

With just two blocks left to sell in the first stage of the Forbes industrial area, Mr Steffen said council will soon be moving into stage two of the project with 100 hectares to sell.