Capital Equipment News November 2015

CONSTRUCTION AND MINING FOCUS from Scania at Bauma Conexpo Africa 2015

by Richard Jansen van Vuuren

Scania had a selection of vehicles suited to the mining and construction industries on display at Bauma Conexpo Africa 2015. In addition, several representatives from its various divisions; sales, finance, insurance, service repair and maintenance, driver training and fleet management, were available to assist existing, new and potential customers.

Steve Fillmore, vice-president, ProAll, Dirk Moolman, Reimer, Jaco Burger, Desert Fruit and Steve Wager, managing director of Scania Southern Africa. Photographs: Richard Jansen van Vuuren

A P410 CB8x4 Tipper truck on Scania’s stand at Bauma Conexpo Africa 2015.

T he display comprised mixers, tippers, a stemming truck, staff carriers and infrastructure support vehicles and well as a containerised genset, which forms an integral part of Scania’s container module systems for remote applications. “Many people ask what typical mining or construction solutions we offer,” explained Alexander Taftman, product and marketing director at Scania South Africa. “The simple answer is that there are no typical solutions because the solution we provide to each customer is unique. Noth- ing is predefined, from our comprehensive

worlds apart. The first vehicle is the more widely used way of mixing concrete in ur- ban applications. It is driven short distances and often idles on site for many hours. The second specialised vehicle is more suited for long distance travel to more remote sites as it is housed on an off-road 6x6 truck and chassis. Traditional mixing trucks use weight batch- ing while the unit handed over to the client at the show uses volume batching. The specialised vehicle has a load capacity of 9.5 m 3 and can produce 60 m 3 an hour. Traditional mixers have an average load capacity of around 6 m 3 . The specialised vehicle can achieve this high production

needs analysis through sale, finance or in- surance to after sale services.”

To illustrate his point, Taftman pointed out that Scania had two mixers on display at the show. The first was a traditional mixer in which all concrete components are mixed while on route to the site where it is to be used. The second, a vehicle that was handed over to the client at the show, transports dry components of concrete, cement, aggregate and additives, such as fly-ash, to site where it is then mixed with water. Both these vehicles would typically be used by a construction contractor but the appli- cations they offer for mixing cement are

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