INTERNATIONAL EQUIPMENT NEWS
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.
Breaking and grabbing to demolish
The Epiroc MG1500 multi grapple moving demolition waste.
Honours for drones
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At the Samoter international fair in Italy
in March 2020, as part of a display of the
company’s Smart Solutions portfolio under
the theme of ‘Powered by Innovation’,
Doosan Infracore Europe will be exhibiting
the new fuel cell drones from DMI for
monitoring machine performance and
wider operation efficiency on construction,
mine and quarry sites.
With the capability of flying up to
two hours on one charge, these long-
endurance fuel-cell powered drones can
cover even large sites in a single flight,
versus using multiple batteries and flight
locations. Using the drones can also
improve the safety of workers and prevent
accidents by using aerial scanning rather
than manual materials climbing.
Doosan will also be using Samoter to
promote the company’s Concept-X vision,
its wide-ranging concept covering everything
from automated job-site management using
drone and ICT techs to fully automated
machine control.
The new drone systems from Doosan
Mobility Innovation (DMI) have won
honours in two of the categories in the CES
2020 Innovation Awards announced during
the CES 2020 Exhibition, the world’s largest
electronics trade show, held in Las Vegas in
Nevada, US from 7 to10 January 2020.
Doosan's hydrogen fuel cell drones are
composed of a powerpack, a miniaturised,
lightweight fuel cell system that maximizes
mobility by utilizing PEMFC (Proton-
exchange membrane fuel cells) technology,
and drone frames that use the powerpack
as their main power source. The specific
model name of the powerpack shown at
CES is DP30 and the drone frame is DS30.
Doosan’s Long Endurance Fuel Cell
Drone (DS30 with DP30) won a Best
of Innovation Award in the Drones &
Unmanned Systems Category. The DP30
Mobile Fuel Cell Powerpack also won
an Honoree Award in the Sustainability,
Eco-Design & Smart Energy Category.
The company’s hydrogen fuel cell drone
significantly expands the use of drones by
extending the flight time beyond that of
battery-type drones, which can fly for only
20 to 30 minutes, to more than two hours.
Doosan’s hydrogen fuel cell drones have won several awards.
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