Capital Equipment News September 2017

SITE HIGHLIGHTS

Scania mining tippers offering 28-32 t of payload

28-32 t

83 % utilisation of the vehicles

20% savings on maintenance costs

50% savings on fuel

250-hour service regime

Andre Niemand, technical advisor: Mining at PPC Slurry (third from left), and Ruben Govender, key account manager – Mining at Scania South Africa (far right), are joined by three drivers at PPC Slurry.

accounts for a third or more of any mine’s operational costs – is often the biggest vari- able cost for any mining operation, but based on Niemand and his team’s understanding that hauling is also one of the operational processes where significant cost reduction is often possible, the company started to investigate a possible cost effective hauling solution. “We needed to look at something

else. We decided on a construction-type of a vehicle, but one that would be able to car- ry larger payloads that we wanted to,” says Niemand. Bauma ConExpo Africa 2015 lived to its billing as a perfect deal-centric platform for fleet owners and suppliers when a member of the PPC Slurry team stumbled upon Scania’s G410CB8x4EHZ mining tipper at the

show, a vehicle optimised for quarry work and mining. After consultations with the Scania team, PPC Slurry eventually invested in a total of four Scania G410CB8x4EHZ mining tippers in 2015. Two years on, the range has ticked all the right boxes, all the way from productivity, versatility, through to lower fuel consumption and lower service and maintenance costs.

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