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product needs to upgrade our clients’
competitive edge through the whole
supply chain and serve them over the
long-term by default. We always
keep our customer’s success as
one of our priorities and focus on
achieving this target,” Kuusento
stresses.
Doofor’s CEO points out that the
company makes partnerships and also
cooperates directly with customers. Its
cooperation with globally known Avant Tecno is a
great example. Doofor and Avant Tecno, of
Ylöjärvi, Finland have developed a new
attachable drill. The Avant D22x drill attachment
can be installed for Avant 635, 640 and 700series compact loaders and it can drill up to 45
mm diameter holes in hard rock, using a Doofor
DF530X hydraulic rock drill.
According to Avant Tecno Sales manager Jukka
Kytömäki there are a number of existing Avant
users in need of such an attachment. That also
makes the Avant-loaders yet more versatile,
which adds to the number of Avant owners. “We
see a lot of potential for this kind of compact,
robust, but effective drill attachment”, explains
Kytömäki. In addition, Avant Tecno has Doofor
drills available for Avant demolition robots.
“Partnership with Doofor provides the
company highest technology and competitive
product without the need to invest in product
development or manufacturing process itself. We
provide our knowledge for customers’ processes
which along with our spare part supply benefits
our partner, concludes Kuusento. “We provide
the most advanced technology, the highest
quality and knowhow to enhance our partners’
competitive edges.”
Normet, a leader in sprayed concrete solutions
(equipment, construction chemicals, expertise),
has expanded its offering, giving customers ever
increasing flexibility in tailoring their operations
for safety, through mechanised spraying, and
productivity with custom equipment
configurations for the global industry.
The Alpha 1430 Kit is built on a self-supporting
frame and fits a wide variety of commercially
available truck chassis, enabling users to efficiently
and economically configure a concrete sprayer
for medium to large cross section tunnels.
“The success of the site-proven truck based
sprayer Alpha 1430P/PC continues”, explains
Marcelo Anabalon, Regional Vice President for
Latin America, “and now goes global.” Sprayed
Concrete Product Line Manager Ilpo Martikainen
elaborates: “The latest innovation from our
Chilean R&D organisation enters the market with
different versions that can be mounted to almost
any commercially available truck chassis with
suitable payload capacity. This unique piece of
equipment is designed and well suited for those
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The New Alpha 1430 Kit
market areas and sites
where the same
concrete spraying units
are used in different
headings or slopes with
different cross section
dimensions. The possibility to drive this unit on
normal roads (local restrictions may apply)
widens the usage of Normet’s technologies to a
totally new level.”
The Alpha 1430 Kit’s structure and modularity
gives the flexibility to add features such as a
compressor and electro-hydraulic power pack.
Also, changing the kit from one chassis to
another is made easy.
Mike Rispin, Senior Vice President for Global
Sales and Marketing notes the increase in
sprayed concrete use around the world “as this
ground support method continues to gain
popularity. We continue to conceive of innovative
and unique ways to enhance efficiency and
competitiveness, whether through our equipment
technology, like this Alpha 1430 Kit, or with stateof-the-art construction chemicals, complemented
by the expertise of our workforce.”
The Alpha 1430 Kit enables the spraying of
cross sections up to 12 m in height and 20 m in
width. It can be fitted to new or used truck
chassis. It offers, of course, the well know
Normet NSP pump and XEP accelerator dosing
system reliability. Normet produces the Alpha
With Sandvik geoSURE information is gathered
from every drilled hole and visualising the rock
allows geologists quick and up-front access to
information that has traditionally taken some
days to be available
1430 Kit both in Peltosalmi, Finland and Santiago
de Chile.
Some years ago Sandvik separated out its
mining and construction business areas, as
did Atlas Copco. Now
things have turned full
circle with Sandvik
merging its
operations
Sandvik Mining
and Sandvik
Construction into
one business area
– Sandvik Mining and
Rock Technology.
The new entity will be
organised in a de-centralised business
model w ith separate product areas based on the
product offering. Each product area will have full
responsibility and accountability for its
respective business.
"Products developed for the customer
segments mining and construction are based on
common technologies with a similar aftermarket
offering. In addition, manufacturing units are
already largely shared with to some extent
shared front line resources. By joining the
operations into one business area we achieve a
leaner and more efficient structure. The
decentralised business model enables an even
clearer focus and faster response to our
customers”, says Björn Rosengren, Sandvik´s
President and CEO.
The new structure will be effective from July 1
and Lars Engström; currently President of
Sandvik Mining has been appointed President of
Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology.
The company has added a revolutionary rigintegrated, high precision, online rock mass
analysis and visualisation system to its existing
offering for tunnelling/drifting. The new geoSURE
option is fully integrated to the iSURE®