Ancillary Equipment

DEUTZ, the Cologne, Germany-based engine manufacturer, has produced the nine millionth engine of its 150-year-plus history. The company says that thanks to continuous improvements in efficiency and cutting-edge exhaust after-treatment systems, DEUTZ engines are in demand worldwide. DEUTZ was founded in Cologne in 1864, and in 1867 the company’s founders Nicolaus August Otto and Eugen Langen developed the atmospheric gas-powered engine, known as Engine No. 1.
This was followed in 1876 by the world’s first f

International construction equipment manufacturer Chicago Pneumatic has unveiled its new ultra-bright LED light tower.

The CPLB 6 light tower utilises four 350 W LEDs to provide a lighting efficacy of up to 200lux. By using LEDs rather than conventional halide lights, Chicago Pneumatic says the CPLB 6 light tower is 20% brighter than most standard light towers and can reduce energy use by more than 70%.

Martin Engineering, a global leader in bulk material handling technology, says the design of a new manufacturing process to build its industrial vibrators offers a higher level of quality and consistency through a classic lean manufacturing operation. With two cells now completed and fully operational in the US and Asia, the company has confirmed that the process delivers repeatable close-tolerance results for outstanding product uniformity, while cutting manufacturing time and reducing the physical demands

Caterpillar and Barloworld Power have launched a combined initiative to assemble Cat electric power generators in South Africa to meet rising demand, reduce unit cost and promote localisation.

It is Caterpillar’s first equipment assembly unit in South Africa, and marks a milestone in the partnership between Caterpillar and Barloworld Power, its southern African dealer for Energy and Transportation.

The generators, supplied in kit form, are assembled locally, contributing to the drive for localisation

RDS Technology has received European accreditation for its LOADMASTER a100 ‘legal for trade’ weigher, enabling product to be sold from a printed ticket.
Typically fitted to a wheeled loading shovel, the LOADMASTER a100 effectively transforms the loader into a mobile weighbridge which conforms to class Y(b) levels of accuracy (and OIML only in the UK).
The company’s quality system for production, testing and final product inspection was subject to scrutiny by the National Measurement Office, with RDS fulfi

As fuel prices yo-yo, quarry operators and contractors, and therefore manufacturers, are constantly looking at ways of making machines even more efficient. Patrick Smith reports.
Construction machines of today have improved greatly from 10-20 years ago as tough emissions regulations have brought about major engine developments that in turn have seen research and development focussing, among other things, on improving fuel efficiency.
All the major manufacturers are now seeing their machines doing more wor