Hitachi's Silver Lining - Pdworld.com

Competition intenin tracked mobileThe trend towards mobile crushing, screening and recycling plants ontracks is certainly continuing. ConExpo showed that the establishedmanufacturers designed new units with all sorts of new features, butthere is also a number of new manufacturers, particularly American,that want to jump on the bandwagon. PDi’s Heikki Harri reports.56 PDi • Issue 2 • May - June 2011It will not be easy as the number of companies offering all sorts ofattachments is increasing, as well and the competition is fierce.Many manufacturers also made global launches offeringpotential customers something new. There were no revolutionaryinnovations, but a lot of new features. Customersface problems trying to determine which of the new featuresreally are significant and will make a difference.PDi takes a look at the demolition and recycling relatedmachines on show at ConExpo, particularly those new tothe market.SandvikNaturally the big players offered more than the smaller ones.Sandvik launched nine new products, one drill, two screeningplants, three mobile crushers and three small breakers.The three new breakers, named BR555, BR777 andBR999, are designed for carriers in the weight range from1.9 to 12.5t. The carriers can be skid steer and backhoeloaders, and mini excavators. They are also designed to beadded to the product offering of rental companies.Sandvik also was one of the companies offering newscreening machinery. The new QA331 three-way splitscreener is an upgrade of the former QA330. The machine isable to work at a quarry face, inner-city development projector a recycling centre. The other new piece of machinery wasthe QE440 mobile scalper screen.There were also two track-mounted impact crushers ondisplay. The QI240 is designed for demolition and recyclingand also for a smaller quarry operation. It is fitted with apre-screen for scalping of the fines in order to prevent theundersize material passing through the impact crusher.