Plant Equipment and Hire February 2018 | Page 33

NEW EQUIPMENT Mobile equipment was well represented at the open day, including the imposing presence of a Metso Lokotrack ST3.5 mobile screen. International received the ‘Best New Service Distributor’ award at Metso’s inaugural global distributor conference. Josh Meyer, senior vice-president AMET (Africa, Middle East and Turkey), made the comment that he had seen people totally committed to a partnership that would create a better dealer infrastructure Pilot Crushtec’s DoppiaTrac DR400 double roll crusher is the only machine of its kind manufactured in South Africa. absolutely fundamental to the Metso corporate identity. Scherf concluded by describing the added value the company has gained since its alignment with Metso. “It’s a very good company, very technically minded, incredibly supportive and our goals are aligned. For example, the distributor manager spends two weeks of every month based at our offices and we have a full- time Metso product support specialist based permanently at our offices; something that I think is phenomenal. Another aspect of their technical assistance is the Bruno software simulation package, which enables us to accurately predict the results of a machine or train of machines across a given range of applications.” ■ FEBRUARY 2018 31