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CAPITAL EQUIPMENT NEWS
JANUARY 2016
28
TRANSPORT
S
everal days ago, a yellow-painted
colossus left the SCHEUERLE Fahrze-
ugfabrik production facility in Pfe-
delbach and headed to Heilbronn. For the
transportation of the ship section trans-
porter with a 800 t payload along the route
to the harbor great precision was required
as the almost eight metre wide and thirty
metre long vehicle is anything but easy to
manage on the roads.
The ship section transporter will be used
at the shipyard premises of the Sungdong
Group in the South Korean coastal city of
Tongyoung. Equipped with 26 axles, it
moves large ship segments positioning
them for final assembly or moving them
back and forth between different produc-
tion facilities on the site. In this respect,
technical reliability and a high level of
safety are particularly important. As a re-
sult, the transporter is not only fitted with
monitoring and warning systems for closely
checking the centre of gravity, load and in-
clination but also reliably protects the driv-
er in the cab mounted below against noise,
heat and cold, and draws his attention
to any possible vehicle operating errors.
“The highest demands are placed on our
ship section transporters in terms of pro-
cess reliability as costly failures and asso-
ciated downtime is today something that
no operator wants to risk,” said Ralf Grütz-
macher, Area Manager Sales at TII Sales,
the joint sales and distribution company of
SCHEUERLE, NICOLAS and KAMAG which
together make up the TII Group. “Espe-
cially in tough operating conditions such
as high humidity, high salt content in the
air and constantly changing temperatures,
our transport solutions enjoy a well-earned
reputation for their high degree of reliability
for avoiding breakdowns and malfunctions.
We ensure this through the use of high
quality components and a closely moni-
tored quality control throughout the entire
manufacturing process. We also take great
care during the transportation to the cus-
tomer by safeguarding the entire vehicle
in order to protect it against the weather
thus ensuring that it arrives in perfect con-
dition at its final destination”, added Grütz-
macher. For the realisation of the transport
solutions at the TII Group, the longstand-
ing experience of all three sister compa-
nies are incorporated. In the process, the
TII Group supplies a wide range of indus-
tries with a broad spectrum of pulled and
self-propelled vehicles, and is the world
market leader in the development and pro-
duction of vehicles with hydraulically driven
pendulum axles. Apart from ship section
transporters, Self-Propelled Modular Trans-
porters (SPMT) are also in frequent use in
shipyard operations. With these modular
transport systems, virtually any large loads
can be carried and transported. Depending
on the purpose, a single or multiple-cou-
pled ship section transporter or one SPMT
could provide the ideal solution for a partic-
ular transport assignment in the shipyard.
SCHEUERLE DELIVERS 800 T
payload transporter to South Korea