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CAPITAL EQUIPMENT NEWS
SEPTEMBER 2017
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accounts for a third or more of any mine’s
operational costs – is often the biggest vari-
able cost for any mining operation, but based
on Niemand and his team’s understanding
that hauling is also one of the operational
processes where significant cost reduction
is often possible, the company started to
investigate a possible cost effective hauling
solution. “We needed to look at something
else. We decided on a construction-type of
a vehicle, but one that would be able to car-
ry larger payloads that we wanted to,” says
Niemand.
Bauma ConExpo Africa 2015 lived to its
billing as a perfect deal-centric platform for
fleet owners and suppliers when a member
of the PPC Slurry team stumbled upon
Scania’s G410CB8x4EHZ mining tipper at the
show, a vehicle optimised for quarry work
and mining. After consultations with the
Scania team, PPC Slurry eventually invested
in a total of four Scania G410CB8x4EHZ
mining tippers in 2015. Two years on, the
range has ticked all the right boxes, all the
way from productivity, versatility, through to
lower fuel consumption and lower service
and maintenance costs.
Andre Niemand, technical advisor: Mining at PPC Slurry (third from
left), and Ruben Govender, key account manager – Mining at Scania
South Africa (far right), are joined by three drivers at PPC Slurry.
Scania mining tippers
offering 28-32 t of payload
83 % utilisation of the
vehicles
20% savings on
maintenance costs
50% savings on fuel
250-hour service regime
SITE HIGHLIGHTS
28-32 t