INTERNATIONAL EQUIPMENT NEWS
Breaking down the walls
UK drainage and earthworks contractor IJ
Lynn & Sons invested in an Epiroc kit for
the demolition of a wastewater treatment
plant recently.
According to Ivan Lynn, owner of IJ
Lynn & Sons, it was the performance
combined with back up service
and support from local dealer WAC
McCandless (Engineers) which made the
company select Epiroc’s MG 1500 multi
grapple and MB 1650 breaker. Having
bought his first Epiroc SB 152 early in
2017, Lynn’s positive experience led him
to choose Epiroc’s equipment as he
knew it to be more productive, requiring
less down time and maintenance.
"We’ve been using the new breaker
and grapple to demolish a wastewater
treatment plant and then remove the
waste from the site. I’ve been particularly
impressed with the MG 1500 R – the
rotation unit on the grab makes it so much
faster and more flexible than our old grab,"
says Lynn.
The team have used the MB 1650
hammer to break up the water tanks,
moving the large pieces of debris to
an area of the site where they can be
broken down quickly and easily using the
company’s Epiroc SB breakers, before
removing it from the site for recycling.
“The MG 1500 is so easy to handle
that we can sort hardcore from other
materials as we dismantle the building,”
says Lynn.
Epiroc’s range of silent demolition tools
includes cutters, steel shears, pulverisers,
grapples, bucket crushers, screening
buckets, drum cutters, compactors and
magnets. This comprehensive range of
robust excavator attachments can improve
profitability for contractors by helping
them to sort, load and recycle materials,
so reducing landfill costs and increasing
recycling.
Electric machines available for pre-booking
Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE)
is launching Volvo Group’s first machine
retail e-commerce tool. The online portal
will give customers the opportunity to
get in line for the first time to pre-book
one of Volvo’s new electric compact
machines.
Signaling the future for construction,
the new ECR25 Electric compact
excavator and L25 Electric compact
wheel loader, benefit from zero exhaust
emissions and low noise levels and
vibrations, making them the perfect
accompaniment for inner city jobsites –
in fact any sensitive work environment.
Customers will also benefit from lower
maintenance levels, a more peaceful
operation and the ability to keep in line
with increased environmental regulations.
For the first time since their unveiling last
year, customers can now pre-book their
electric machines by signing up to the
company’s pre-booking tool.
www.equipmentandhire.co.za
Melker Jernberg, Volvo CE president,
says, “We are always looking for ways
to improve the customer experience,
streamline our processes and make use
of new technologies. So, what better
time to announce an innovative new sales
platform than with the market launch of
our electric machines?”
By registering on the pre-booking tool,
which opened recently across the key
markets of France, Germany, Great Britain,
The Netherlands and Norway, and will be
expanded to other markets in the near
future, customers are reserving a place
in the production queue for the electric
machines. After, customers will be alerted if
they have been selected to place an actual
order for the machines, set to hit the market
in the summer.
Built to expand the opportunities for
customers to buy one of these machines
and to broaden the way these machines
are used by customers, the online portal
is being handled in collaboration with
local dealers. Volvo Financial Services, the
global financial services provider for the
Volvo Group, supports the purchase of
these electric machines by offering flexible
finance solutions.
Volvo CE is marking its first commercial
electric offering with the launch of
an electromobility awareness raising
campaign this week, which highlights the
technology’s many societal benefits. The
Add Silence campaign centers around one
of the most significant – and sometimes
overlooked – advantages of electric
construction machines: a reduction in
damaging noise pollution.
Melker Jernberg says, “When talking
about harmful emissions, it’s easy to focus
on CO 2 alone, but research shows that
noise is equally important. We need to
make concerted efforts to tackle both of
these emissions if we want to build a more
sustainable tomorrow.”
APRIL 2020
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