MechChem Africa November-December 2023

⎪ Special report ⎪

plays a crucial role in internally developing world-class skills from the surrounding community. “This is complemented by our highly skilled team of welding, quality and industrial engineers, along with onsite calibration facilities, equipment to perform material checks, and a number of highly spe cialised co-ordinate measuring machines. “Together with our strong focus on process development, BHI can guarantee consistent quality to customers. BHI can also tap into a wealth of group resources, notably a team of over 100 South African design engineers, enhancing its suitability for local manufacturing across diverse in dustries,” adds Jones. Bell Equipment’s manufacturing op eration, which is 55% black-owned and 24% black women-owned, contributes to B-BBEE scores and creates localisation op portunities for potential customers. “Over the years we have established a global supply chain with access to world-class suppliers. Procurement staff are well skilled in international logistics and our strategic sourcing department has strong commod ity expertise, which ensures stringent input cost control. “We have always maintained that manu facturing has massive transformation po tential for the South African economy and employment, so we are optimistic about this new division and will be actively engaging with those looking for the expertise we now offer outside of our traditional market seg ment,” Stephen Jones concludes. www.bellequipment.com T he Bobcat brand is already world famous for an extensive range of compact machines, which are used in construction, the agricultural sector, landscaping, demolition, recycling and many other industries. Bobcat loaders and telehan dlers, which can be equipped with attachments such as buckets, grabs, bale clamps, dump hop pers and pallet forks, are often used for material handling and logistics tasks. It is therefore no surprise that products such as forklift trucks and warehouse equipment from sister company, Doosan Industrial Vehicle (DIV), are now part of the Bobcat family. These material handling machines will be produced in the well-known Bobcat colours from 1 st January 2024. The Bobcat range for logistics and mate rial handling now consists of various product lines: • A series of diesel forklift trucks with lift

Bell has almost seventy years of demonstrated expertise in complex engineering, heavy fabrication, and machining for its own range of material handling equipment.

BHI is well equipped with specialist machines including both horizontal and vertical CNC (computerised numerical control) machining centres.

New to market: Bobcat forklifts and warehouse equipment The logistics market has recently acquired a new brand of forklift trucks: Bobcat.

sive R&D facilities, several exciting machine management innovations, marketing know how and Bobcat's extensive dealer network, while Bobcat now has a virtually complete portfolio of compact machines. www.bobcat.com

ing capacities from 2.0 to 16 t.

• A series of LPG forklift trucks with lifting capacities from 2.0 to 7.0 t. And a series of electric forklift trucks with lifting capacities from 1.2 to 10 t. The latter segment also includes a line of electric forklifts with three wheels for light work from 1.2 to 2.0 t, while warehouse solutions include pallet trucks, stackers and reach trucks. During the last LogiMAT exhibition in Stuttgart, Germany, Doosan Bobcat intro duced a number of machines. The new B80NS forklift truck was on display; is part of a series of electric counterbalanced forklift trucks with lifting capacities of 8.0 and 10 t. In addi tion, two prototypes were on view: the three wheel B18NT electric forklift with lithium battery and the B30X-7 Plus hydrogen forklift. Thanks to the integration into Doosan Bobcat, DIV can benefit from Bobcat's exten •

Forklift trucks and warehouse equipment from sister company, Doosan Industrial Vehicle (DIV), are now part of the Bobcat family.

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