Plant Equipment and Hire September 2018 | Página 19

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In-house high-definition plasma cutter ensures quick turnaround time for steel parts
used in production. Highest quality welding with specialised staff
on both Mig and Stick welding applications.
But overall, “It’s the personal relationship
that draws us to them,” he concludes.
Avin Mendass, quarry manager for NPC
Sterkspruit Aggregates, has a similar tale.
Yet again, the decision to use the local
OEM is starting to sound like a mantra:
“It’s local, the back-up and service are
unequalled, and spares are readily available
if needed. You phone them today and
tomorrow your machine is running.”
He adds: “We are mining quartzite
aggregate and unfortunately for us, it
has a very high silica content, which is a own admission, the quarry manager says
that the 1700 was “under-specced”, but
other than the odd indicator light needing
replacement, there has been nothing of a
mechanical nature that required attention
in the two or so years that the machines
have been deployed.
Seren Surendrasewprsadh, owner of
SS Group of Companies, based in Port
Shepstone, undertakes shale mining for
cement, and transport. “We mine river
sand and have a stone quarry in Harding
that presently moves 5 000 tonnes.”
very abrasive material, requiring
hardy equipment.
“The company believes that Dezzi
Equipment produces loaders that are built
for the African conditions; very minimal in
terms of computers on board and so on
… you don’t have to wait for some guy
on a laptop to come and help you if the
machine goes down.”
The mine has a Dezzi 1700 front-end
loader and a 2500, which they alternate
with the Park Rennie plant and the mine,
depending on volumes required. By his