Capital Equipment News October 2022

FLEET EXPANSION

3-wheel electric forklifts from CFAO Equipment SA are nimble and manoeuvrable, making them perfect for warehouse applications.

Kobelco SK220-10 excavators can work comfortably in areas with houses and powerlines nearby and that is one of the reasons it is well suited for fleets like Martmol Trading.

Adding excavators to a fleet

When acquiring three Kobelco SK220XD-10 and two Kobelco SK260LC-10 Excavators, one JCB CT260-100 and two JCB CT160-100 Smooth Drum Rollers, Martmol Trading saw the convenience of having a dealership nearby when out-of-warranty machines needed replacement parts in its expanding capital equipment fleet.

M artin Molewa used to be a borehole contractor, and while laying water pipes with his bare hands he learned about the value of money and what it could buy in terms of machines to make the job easier and faster. “My parents, through their entrepreneurial ventures, laid the foundation within me to be similarly self-em ployed, which is what encouraged me to start my own business,” Molewa says. “This was back in 2007 and I did sub-contract work for borehole contractors, acting as the middle-man between the contractor and the client while also learning about

the drilling business.” During that period, Martin threw himself into the world of borehole drilling, working relentlessly. He soon owned drill rigs and regularly installed pumps and laid water pipes once underground aquifers had been breached. “I now felt I owned the whole value chain around drilling for water and, by 2010, started looking around for other opportunities related to civil construction,” he says. Owning a yellow machine fleet “This I found in road construction for which there was a big demand in our Limpopo Province, as the government and local municipalities started making good on their

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