MANUFACTURING
superfluous design. While the equipment
with its angular silhouette is not going
to win any aesthetics awards, it is built
for practicality — to survive in one of the
harshest continents on the planet. After
all, Africa is not for sissies.
The equipment that comes out of the
family-owned business is built to last and,
in the highly unlikely event that something
should go awry in deepest Africa, far from
workshop facilities, most likely it can be
fixed with a range of spanners by a local
mechanic. Or, if the worst comes to the
worst and a part needs replacement, the
“high-quality, off-the-shelf componentry”
will see the machine up and running in
substantially less time than any premium
brand could afford.
But trumping anything that could be
manufactured, there is one aspect of Dezzi
that stands head and shoulders above
any opposition.
Without exception, customer care and
after-sales service are top of the list of
mounting commendations from the ever-
expanding customer base.
What the users say
Dezzi Equipment has found a place in the
mining/quarrying and forestry sectors,
where the hardiness of the machines is
much sought after. PEH visited mining/
quarrying concerns in KwaZulu-Natal
and spoke to the people running the
Dezzi machines.
Walking through a stockpile of white,
sparkling material, piled high and glinting
in the sun, PEH spoke with Fana Shozi,
mine manager of Rossmin Mining, which
is an opencast limestone quarry near Port
Shepstone that produces high-quality
material in an area known as the Marble
Delta. Shozi describes with enthusiasm
why Dezzi Equipment complements
his offering.
Mining two types of limestone,
dolomite and calcite, with the quantities
produced — 150 tonnes per hour on the
crusher side and about 50 tonnes per hour
on the sorter side, “due to be doubled
with a second sorter”, while the sand plant
produces 70 tonnes per hour — Shozi
assures, “There is no time for machines
that are not reliable.”
The mine has two Dezzi 2500 front-
end loaders for plant feeding —the sorter
plant and the sand plant — and one 3500
for customer loading. “We also have two
30-tonne ADT dumper trucks and one
25-tonner to feed the crusher,” he says
and adds that although Dezzi’s proximity
influenced the purchase, “what was even
more attractive was that with the machine
we also get the back-up service.
Where it all starts — the concept materialises.
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