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<strong>The</strong> company’s diversification into military hardware has resulted in it being awarded a five-year contract from the<br />
US Army for MCVs (mine clearing vehicles). Worth up to $168 million, the contract will result in Hydrema supplying<br />
not only area mine clearing systems (AMCS) but also spares, training and maintenance support.<br />
Hydrema CEO Werner Jensen says, “This MCV contract gives us an excellent opportunity for further development<br />
of the US market, both for our military and <strong>construction</strong> <strong>equipment</strong> products. It increases our level of activity and<br />
expands our sales and service facilities in the US.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> MCVs are standard operating <strong>equipment</strong> in other NATO countries and now the newest version released by<br />
Hydrema fulfils all US requirements. <strong>The</strong> US Army is scheduled to begin receiving the 910MCV2-AMCS vehicles in the<br />
next few months.<br />
<strong>The</strong> proven Hydrema 910MCV2 is a heavily armoured two axle articulated machine. With the operator’s cab at the<br />
front, the rear chassis carries a substantial blast deflector plate at the back together with a heavy-duty flail.<br />
<strong>The</strong> 910MCV2 can be transported inside a Hercules C130 aircraft. <strong>The</strong> machine has two Perkins 1006-6TW<br />
engines (the second for mine clearing <strong>equipment</strong> on the rear chassis) and two transmission systems. As well as a ZF<br />
Ergopower powershift transmission for road travel (up to 42 km/h) and hard surface mine clearing (up to 7.5 km/h)<br />
there is also a hydrostatic transmission that is used for soft surface mine clearing (up to 0.9 m/h).<br />
Three of Mammoet’s nine new 250 tonne capacity Kobelco<br />
CKE2500-2 crawler cranes have gone to work on the<br />
large new Mammoet/IRGA dry-dock project for<br />
Petronas in Rio Grande, Brazil.<br />
Hydrema<br />
Kobelco obelco plans plans Indian Indian factory<br />
factory<br />
and and sells sells more more cranes cranes to<br />
to<br />
Mammoet<br />
Mammoet<br />
A 1.2 billion yen investment is being made by Kobelco<br />
Cranes Co Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kobe Steel Ltd,<br />
to establish a new crawler crane factory in India. This<br />
additional manufacturing capability will enable the Japanese<br />
company to further develop its overseas business and to<br />
strengthen its position in the Indian market which is<br />
anticipated to grow rapidly in the future.<br />
Kobelco claims to be Japan’s leading manufacturer of<br />
crawler cranes, with a roughly 50% share of the domestic<br />
market. <strong>World</strong>wide, Kobelco estimates that it has a 17%<br />
share of the crawler crane market.<br />
<strong>The</strong> new Kobelco crane factory in India is scheduled to<br />
begin production in October 2011. It will be built in the Sri<br />
City Special Economic Zone in Andhra Pradesh in south-eastern India. <strong>The</strong> new 6,900m³ crane facility will be located<br />
adjacent to Kobelco Construction Machinery Co Ltd’s new hydraulic excavator factory which will become operational<br />
in January 2011. <strong>The</strong> close proximity of the new factories will enable the two companies to share distribution and<br />
information, which will increase the business efficiency of their Indian operations.<br />
To operate its Indian business, a new wholly owned subsidiary company called Kobelco Cranes India Pvt. Ltd. (or<br />
KCI) is being established. KCI will manufacture crawler cranes with capacities ranging from 90 to 250 tonnes.<br />
Kobelco Cranes Co Ltd has also announced that the international crane hire, heavy lifting and transportation<br />
company Mammoet has ordered four more 250 tonne capacity CKE2500-2 crawler cranes. <strong>The</strong>se are in addition to<br />
the five units ordered by the Dutch company at the Bauma plant exhibition.<br />
<strong>The</strong> first three CKE2500-2s of Mammoet’s original order have already been delivered to Santos Port near Sao<br />
Paolo for operation in Brazil. <strong>The</strong>ir first project in Rio Grande is the <strong>construction</strong> of a large new dry-dock facility for the<br />
offshore industry, being constructed by Mammoet/IRGA for Petrobas.<br />
Kobelco Cranes<br />
Mastenbroek Mastenbroek adds adds GPS GPS option option for for its its drainage drainage trenchers<br />
trenchers<br />
<strong>The</strong> UK based <strong>equipment</strong> maker Mastenbroek has launched a new GPS system for its drainage trenchers. Developed<br />
in partnership with Trimble Germany GmbH, this GPS system for chain trenchers is said to represent a significant<br />
improvement on the laser-assisted technology currently available to assist the positioning of drainage pipes.<br />
Mastenbroek will continue to offer existing laser technology with its trenching <strong>equipment</strong>. But the company states<br />
that the new GPS option affords greater accuracy where, in the case of laser positioning, uncorrected data is ‘laser<br />
flat’ not ‘earth flat’.<br />
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CP&E <strong>Contractors</strong> Plant & Equipment Vol 1 No 6
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