Capital Equipment News February 2022

ADTs

ALFIERI HOLDINGS ‘SUPPORTS LOCAL’ WITH A DOZEN BELL ADTS

An emerging coal mining group’s decision to invest in Bell Articulated Dump Trucks (ADTs) has a direct downstream benefit for three thousand five hundred employees at Bell Equipment as well as for the more than one thousand suppliers to the manufacturer, who supply a vast variety of components that go into each Bell ADT.

From left: Dirk Coetzee (Ikoti Coal Mine Manager), Mzwakhe Mbatha (Department of Trade, Industry and Competition: Automotive & Truck Industry), Enock Mabaso (Bell Equipment Sales Representative), Lehlohonolo Molloyi (MEMSA), Aubrey Potgieter (Bell Equipment Middelburg Branch Manager), Bruce Ndlela (Bell Equipment Director of Business and Public Sector Development), Branden Moodley (Director: Alfieri Holdings), Gary Bell (Bell Equipment Group Chairman), Zabilon Inama (Director: Alfieri Holdings), Advocate TS Mokoena (DMRE) and Coen Bezuidenhout (Mining Engineer: Ikoti Coal Mine).

S o said Bell Equipment Group Chairman, Gary Bell, at the official handover of 12 Bell B45E ADTs to the Alfieri Group at its Ikoti coal mine near Breyten in Mpumalanga recently. The ADTs, locally manufactured at Bell Equipment’s factory in Richards Bay, will be used in the coal sector around Breyten, providing meaning- ful jobs in the area. Bell acknowledged that while the Alfieri Group had a choice of eight or more dif- ferent manufacturers of haulage vehicles to choose from, its decision to acquire a wholly owned South African product proved yet again that ADTs manufactured and supported by Bell Equipment could compete on the global market and do so with confidence. “Despite current economic and social challenges within the country, Team South Africa has proven yet again that it can

create a world-class product, and this is further borne out by the fact that only about 15% of our ADT production is sold in South Africa with the balance eagerly snapped up by wider world markets,” he said. Alfieri Director, Branden Moodley said the company had been “influenced by the consen-

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