Strategic Engineering Services and Product Support
UK Based with 47 Years of Military Recovery History
EKA are a UK engineering company specialising in military vehicle recovery and load-handling systems based in Northamptonshire. Founded in 1978, we design and integrate chassis-mounted recovery equipment, winches, and support systems for defence and civil sectors. EKA also offers 3D scanning, reverse engineering, post design services, and CAD design.
Best known for supplying recovery vehicles to the UK Ministry of Defence, EKA provides integrated logistics support, including spares and lifecycle management, delivering customised solutions for demanding operational environments across defence and related industries.
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Positioning recovery capability for the UK’s next generation light vehicle fleet
The Light Mobility Vehicle (LMV) programme represents a generational renewal of the UK Joint Force’s light vehicle fleet. Around 6,000 Land Rovers and 500 Pinzgauers are expected to be replaced with a single platform delivered and supported under one contract for at least twenty years.
EKA Limited is joined by SDE under EKA Group Holding Limited
EKA Limited is pleased to announce it is joined by System Design & Evaluation Ltd (SDE) under EKA Group Holdings Limited, parent organisation of both EKA Limited and SDE. This development marks an important step in strengthening the combined capability available to the UK Ministry of Defence and wider defence community.Â
SuperCompact for the UK:
Delivering Support Vehicle
(Recovery)
Perhaps EKA Limited’s most significant contract of recent years is the successful delivery of 288 recovery vehicles to UK MoD on time and on budget.
The Prime contractor for the Support Vehicle Programme, MAN Truck & Bus UK Limited, chose EKA Limited to deliver the recovery vehicle element of the programme after EKA’s extensive product development and technology demonstration investment during the late 1990’s
and early 2000’s.
Culminating in the SuperCompact recovery top hamper, the Support Vehicle (Recovery), or SV(R) as it is commonly known, delivers suspend tow, rigid tow, lifting, recovery winching and self recovery capability to the British Army’s wheeled fleet.
Lightweight: A High
Mobility, Agile, Intimate
Recovery System
Operations and deployments over recent years have allowed EKA Limited to gain deeper understanding of the detailed and nuanced challenges faced by British forces. This includes the developing requirement to support light and medium weight wheeled vehicles in line with the existing repair and recovery philosophy, while utilising smaller, lighter, higher mobility assets.
The EKA Lightweight recovery system has been designed and developed over the last five years to answer this complex requirement.
