Versatile Machines

The novel uses that CE are being put to in today’s times

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Road construction has been the key demand driver last couple of years. ‘The miles to go’ seemed positive and equipment makers could not have been more happy.

Construction equipment are becoming more versatile every day, thanks to the variety of needs that emerge at jobsites and the completion deadlines against which the contractors have to work. With massive changes in the way construction is happening (buildings, roads, inland waterways, ports), numerous kinds of equipment is being put to innovative use. VG Sakthikumar, MD, Schwing Stetter India; convenor for membership committee, ICEMA; chairman of mechanisation committee, BAI, says, “Each of our equipment is a unique solution in mechanisation for a contractor who has to build with speed, timeline and scale of the project to be implemented. Stetter concrete transit mixers, Schwing concrete placer boom, Stetter concrete batching plant, Schwing separate placing boom, Schwing truck mounted concrete boom pump are even used on barges in bridge projects like Mumbai Trans-Harbour link, Bogibeel, Koli-Bhumora, Brahmaputra, etc. This enables to do underwater concreting for bridge foundations and constructing the entire bridge easily even on water.”

Innovative equipment are being openly accepted by concreting line of customers who also have related and allied works in these segments.

If one only considers a hydraulic excavator, the most visible application other than earthwork excavation is rock breaking. A breaker attachment and the associated pipelines mounted on a basic machine have created a new field of application almost the size of an industry. Today, one cannot imagine a blue metal quarry without several rock breakers working there.