Capital Equipment News January 2016

TRANSPORT

SCHEUERLE DELIVERS 800 T payload transporter to South Korea

S everal days ago, a yellow-painted colossus left the SCHEUERLE Fahrze- ugfabrik production facility in Pfe- delbach and headed to Heilbronn. For the transportation of the ship section trans- porter with a 800 t payload along the route to the harbor great precision was required as the almost eight metre wide and thirty metre long vehicle is anything but easy to manage on the roads. The ship section transporter will be used at the shipyard premises of the Sungdong Group in the South Korean coastal city of Tongyoung. Equipped with 26 axles, it moves large ship segments positioning them for final assembly or moving them back and forth between different produc- tion facilities on the site. In this respect, technical reliability and a high level of safety are particularly important. As a re- sult, the transporter is not only fitted with monitoring and warning systems for closely checking the centre of gravity, load and in- clination but also reliably protects the driv- er in the cab mounted below against noise, heat and cold, and draws his attention to any possible vehicle operating errors.

“The highest demands are placed on our ship section transporters in terms of pro- cess reliability as costly failures and asso- ciated downtime is today something that no operator wants to risk,” said Ralf Grütz- macher, Area Manager Sales at TII Sales, the joint sales and distribution company of SCHEUERLE, NICOLAS and KAMAG which together make up the TII Group. “Espe- cially in tough operating conditions such as high humidity, high salt content in the air and constantly changing temperatures, our transport solutions enjoy a well-earned reputation for their high degree of reliability for avoiding breakdowns and malfunctions. We ensure this through the use of high quality components and a closely moni- tored quality control throughout the entire manufacturing process. We also take great care during the transportation to the cus- tomer by safeguarding the entire vehicle in order to protect it against the weather thus ensuring that it arrives in perfect con- dition at its final destination”, added Grütz- macher. For the realisation of the transport solutions at the TII Group, the longstand- ing experience of all three sister compa- nies are incorporated. In the process, the

TII Group supplies a wide range of indus- tries with a broad spectrum of pulled and self-propelled vehicles, and is the world market leader in the development and pro- duction of vehicles with hydraulically driven pendulum axles. Apart from ship section transporters, Self-Propelled Modular Trans- porters (SPMT) are also in frequent use in shipyard operations. With these modular transport systems, virtually any large loads can be carried and transported. Depending on the purpose, a single or multiple-cou- pled ship section transporter or one SPMT could provide the ideal solution for a partic- ular transport assignment in the shipyard.

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