Volvo Construction Equipment is offering versatile mobile service stations for customers in remote sites with difficult access. The general manager of the Volvo CE dealer in China’s Guangxi Province had a special requirement, to help a major client with a rapidly growing fleet of Volvo CE machines. And this need led to the development of mobile service stations in modified sea freight containers.
This system is now being used at the Guangxi Pingguo Aluminium Company, a major aluminium ore mining company.
UK-based Macleod Simmonds Ltd (MSL) has launched a GPR (Ground Probing Radar) consultancy providing both a survey service and software package which, the firm says, takes the output from multi-antenna surveys to a “whole new dimension”. The firm says it can now provide survey capability for almost any type of terrain, application or location that end users might require. For the existing roadway or smooth surface terrain survey location, MSL has a Carriageway System based on a multi-antenna set up from Ital
The WEDA 04S is the latest addition to the Atlas Copco Portable Energy line-up of small submersible pumps for the light construction and general equipment rental industries. A 0.4kW on-site sludge/trash pump with a maximum flow of 270lpm and a maximum head of 10.5m, the WEDA 04S complements the WEDA line of under 1kW single-phase drainage, sludge and residual pumps released last year.
The new pump model has a cast iron vortex impeller that is able to pump dirty water and handle solids up to 2.5cm in size.
