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CAPITAL EQUIPMENT NEWS
JUNE 2017
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HPE Africa launches new Hyundai R200LC-9S
HPE Africa, the exclusive distributor for
Hyundai Construction Equipment in southern
Africa, has launched the new 20 t class
crawler excavator in South Africa. The
Hyundai R200LC-9S excavator – with an
operating weight of 19,1 t and a heavy
duty 0,9 m³ bucket – is ideally suited for
demanding requirements of the plant hire,
civil engineering, construction, agriculture
and scrap handling industries.
“Feedback from the local market
highlighted a demand for fuel efficient
equipment and Hyundai Construction
Equipment has responded to this need with
the launch of the new R200LC-9S. Due to
improved fuel efficiency, when compared
to competitors’ offerings in this class,
customers can save up to 80% of their capital
expenditure in diesel costs over 12 000 hours
of a machine’s service,” says Alex Ackron,
MD of HPE Africa.
“Users are also impressed with the
long undercarriage design, which ensures
greater stability in arduous operating
conditions. Customers also appreciate the
low maintenance requirements of this series
and are impressed by the Hyundai factory
offering of a two-year/3 000 hour warranty
as standard on the series,” adds Ackron.
As part of the launch process, HPE Africa
placed an R200LC-9S demonstration unit on
site with one of the largest fleet owners of
earthmoving equipment in South Africa. Over
a 14-day period, the machine built gravel
stockpiles and loaded material into tipper
trucks. The operator commented that he was
impressed with the machine’s speed and
smooth operation. Fuel consumption was
carefully monitored by HPE Africa’s technical
staff and verified by the client. At the end of
the 14-day period, the R200LC-9S achieved an
average fuel consumption significantly below
the expected 9
ℓ
an hour.
The R200LC-9S excavator also comes
standard with Hyundai’s computer aided power
optimisation (CAPO) system, which allows the
operator to select preferences for boom or
swing priority, power mode and optional work
tools.
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Excavator-mounted rock breakers
from Furukawa are proving to
be extra-durable in the field
which is driving contractors to
re-examine their long-held belief
that rock hammers be regarded
as “consumables” with only a
relatively short life span.
Thanks to Furukawa’s unique
Monoblock construction with no
through-bolts, as well as less moving and
wear points, the breakers can last for years
in the hardest labour conditions. In addition,
the lighter weight and harder hitting power
of the Monoblock system means that smaller
breakers are required to do the same work as
bulkier counterparts from other manufacturers.
“The power-to-weight ratio of the Furukawa
FXJ-range has a hammer weight to joules
output that is unmatched in the industry
(Construction and Industrial Manufacturers
Association rated tests). For the contractor,
this means saving money on operating costs,
diesel and in many instances, it frees-up
larger excavators for production work,” says
James Linton, national product manager at
ELB Equipment, the exclusive distributor of
Furukawa rock breakers in southern Africa
“Our breakers also transfer less shock to
the excavator due to larger slip-buffer plates
that eliminate impact recoil shock on the
excavator’s boom. That means the Furukawa
design is far more robust and reliable with
considerably less maintenance required, as
well as being smaller and less of a burden on
the excavator,” adds Linton.
“In today’s tough market it is important that
contractors realise that a rock breaker need
not only last the duration of a contract and
then be discarded. This has misguided some
to settle for cheap hammers that cost 20%
less, but at the same time give them 40% less
availability. Furukawa’s, by comparison, have
been running on many of our customer’s sites
for more than 10 years and will work all day
every day.”
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Rock breakers for tough jobs