Wear Parts & Maintenance

CMS Cepcor, based in Coalville, Leicestershire, central England, and Requip Supplies, based in Newark in the neighbouring county of Nottinghamshire, have agreed a new strategic supply partnership.

Maintaining optimum pressure in the tyres of quarry fleet machinery has many benefits, from prolonging their working life and reducing downtime and associated costs, to improving fleet fuel efficiency and site health and safety. Guy Woodford reports on leading global tyre manufacturers’ innovations in this area, and on other latest product news.

Scottish Highlands-based company G.F. Job says its Sandvik designed and manufactured Superior tooth jaw plates have doubled the lifetime of its jaw plates. The company, based in Nairn, Inverness, offers a range of services, including earthmoving, civil engineering, heavy haulage, recycling and contract crushing.

It owns five quarries, crushing mostly hard, abrasive granite and glacial cobbles, and it supplies aggregates to leading suppliers in the Scottish Highlands. It also owns a range of Sandvik mobil

Miller UK, the earthmoving attachments manufacturer, is continuing to strengthen its presence in the Middle East with Oman Hitachi dealer Al Fairuz using Miller products across its entire fleet. Al Fairuz, which is based in Muscat in Oman, is one of the biggest hydraulic excavator dealers in the country and has represented Hitachi for many years.
It has used Miller buckets and couplers for the last four years
and, this year, purchased enough to cover its entire fleet of Hitachi excavators. These will b

Sandvik’s recently-launched HX900 wear segments, comprising bars, buttons, and runners, are said to maintain the original shape of vital equipment surfaces. According to the company this means fewer stops, lower maintenance and operating costs, enabling more time for production.

“A typical HX900 product has a wear resistance that is comparable with cemented carbide and a strength that is 80-90% of the strength of pure nodular iron.

The wear resistance is generally 5-15 times higher than with common h

Sandvik’s recently-launched HX900 wear segments, comprising bars, buttons, and runners, are said to maintain the original shape of vital equipment surfaces. According to the company this means fewer stops, lower maintenance and operating costs, enabling more time for production.

“A typical HX900 product has a wear resistance that is comparable with cemented carbide and a strength that is 80-90% of the strength of pure nodular iron.

The wear resistance is generally 5-15 times higher than with common h

Atlas Copco has agreed to acquire Erkat Spezialmaschinen und Service, a manufacturer of drum cutter attachments for excavators.

Erkat, based in Hämbach, Germany, has sales and service locations worldwide, and makes drum cutter attachments for excavators used primarily in construction and demolition and for quarries and tunnels.

Erkat has 38 employees and had revenues in 2015 of €12 million (SEK 110 million).

“Drum cutters are an ideal complementary product for Atlas Copco as a solution provider

LiuGong’s first overseas school training centre cooperation has opened in Casablanca, Morocco.

Part of OFPPT, which is the short name for Morocco Vocational Training and Labour Council, the school was founded to meet the needs of its national human development strategy and it is a national training institution set up by the Moroccan government, and supplies free professional training for more than 110,000 students each year.

LiuGong says that the establishment and operation of this institution has a s