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Actualités: Chunnel Group adds Hyundai 50 tonner to its fleet
› 05 Janvier 2012
Kent-based earthworks contractor and plant hirer Chunnel Group has taken delivery of its first Hyundai excavator – a 50-tonne 520LC-9. In mass-ex configuration, the machine is currently working on a landfill site, preparing a landfill cell one of Chunnel’s clients.
“We needed a second 50 tonner in our fleet to handle some heavy muck-shifting,” explains Simon Huggins, general manager of the family-run business Chunnel Group. “And supplied with the largest bucket available on its shortest, 2.4m arm, we can maximise productivity and take full advantage of the fuel efficiency available.”
Mr Huggins says that when loading 30 tonne ADT’s, the 520LC-9 is effortless – and with the minimum of passes, is proving itself as a very economical machine.
“We keep a very close eye on fuel consumption, and being able to load dump trucks in fewer passes means the fuel use from its Cummins QSM11 engine is comparable to one of our smaller, 35 tonne excavators,” he says. “Yet its productivity is streets ahead and is everything you’d expect from such a large excavator. It is very impressive.”
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Actualités: Blackhorse Contractors: 9 series
› 01 Avril 2011
The slow route to recovery for the UK’s construction industry is being helped, in no small way, by the arrival of more modern plant and equipment. Where the plant industry once enjoyed margins of 18 to 20 per cent, many are finding that 20 years later, a margin of barely 2 per cent now represents a tough fight. And the emphasis for many companies since 2008, has been keeping a firm grip on survival.
For firms like Wiltshire-based Blackhorse Contractors, the last two years have forced a long, hard look at every operational aspect of the business, and top of the agenda for Blackhorse is its machinery fleet.
“As we adapt our business, we are gradually shifting from a mixed fleet to an all-Hyundai portfolio, says Blackhorse Contractors plant manager Malcolm Slade. “It is one of those areas where we can look to generate savings through better operating efficiency and improved fleet management. I like the advantages that operating a single branded fleet has to offer, including spare parts availability and service items,” he says.
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Actualités: Thompsons in Cumbria take another Hyundai
› 15 Décembre 2010
Taylor & Braithwaite Ltd. of Appleby, Hyundai construction equipment dealer in the north of England, has delivered another Hyundai machine to Thompson’s Plant Hire Ltd. of Maryport, Cumbria – this time a new 32t R320LC-9 excavator, with full quarry spec, including rock guards, lights, extinguishers and safety rails. It was sold also with Hyundai’s rewarding standard 3,000 hour/2-year manufacturer’s warranty.
This follows delivery to Thompsons earlier in the year of a new Hyundai 760-7A wheel loader which has proved to be extremely satisfactory in service in a variety of quarrying, waste recycling and forestry operations.
Thompsons is a diversified plant hire and transport company with an extensive and wide-ranging fleet of trucks and heavy construction machines, providing specialist services for earthmoving, quarrying, waste recycling, forestry (including wood chipping and shredding for bio-fuel production), and general plant hire throughout the UK.
The new 32t 9-Series Hyundai excavator has already gone to work fitted with a rock-hammer attachment on secondary rock breaking at Tarmac’s Morrinton Quarry near Dumfries in Scotland.
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