Capital Equipment News April-May 2020

COMPACT LOADERS

The Avant 800 series is the largest model range in the Avant line of compact articulated loaders.

Pushing the limits

The new Avant 800 Series – the largest and most powerful loader series from Finnish manufacturer Avant Tecno which was recently launched locally by sole distributor AVANT SA – pushes the limits of compact loader performance with its greater lift capacities and heights, as well as ground-breaking technologies, the Optidrive transmission and Smooth Drive dampening system, writes Munesu Shoko .

T he Avant 800 series – the largest model range in the Avant line of compact loaders – made its global debut at bauma Munich in April last year. A few months later, the new range arrived in southern Africa through AVANT MPM Distributors (AVANT SA). Since the local launch in mid-2019, Wally Loftie-Eaton, MD of AVANT SA, tells Capital Equipment News that the interest has been beyond expectations. The company has already sold some 15 machines since then, with six

more units on order. Loftie- Eaton says the population could have been more, but local sales are being limited by the restricted factory

The principal benefit of the Optidrive is 10% better performance

orders due to the high global demand for the 800 series. The Avant 800 series

has found early favour in the agricultural sector, mainly for loading fruit bins in

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