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Thursday, October 8, 2015
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The wheels have been set in motion for another ALE innovation as a new concept has been announced: the All Terrain Transporters.
This new generation trailer will allow fast transportation of large and heavy loads on minimally prepared roads to deep, inland locations such as South African mines and power plants.
As an addition to the Innovation Series, the transporters will be a first for the industry and will join the other feats of engineering: the award-winning AL.SK crane fleet, the revolutionary Mega Jack and Mega Jack 800 systems, and the inventive Hydro Deck.
ALE’s R&D Department is working with a manufacturer to jointly develop the new trailers. Ronald Hoefmans, ALE’s Group Technical Director, explained why and how this new idea was conceived: “Currently, a lot of road preparations have to be done to bring big loads to new developed areas on deep inland locations with conventional trucks and trailers. We started to research into a solution that would solve the problem more effectively and we came up with the All Terrain Transporters which can perform the task at higher levels of safety and save clients a huge amount of money on road preparations.
“Clients will often look to build modules, like pre-assembled racks (PARs) and pre-assembled units (PAUs), oversees instead of stick build onsite. To move these modules from the ports and relocate mining equipment, like dragliners and diggers, to an inland locations within South Africa normally takes a long time and requires a lot of costly road infrastructure. With these new transporters this can be drastically reduced, offering a cost effective and time efficient solution which saves clients’ money for the project and warrant a modularized build. Subsequently, only a narrow public road has to go to the plant for future operational use.
“These self-propelled transporters almost move with the speed of conventional trucks and have the flexibility of an SPMT. In addition, their large wheels and the number of drive axles enable cross country operations.
“This new concept has a more advanced technical specification which will be able to travel longer distances, climb steep slopes and transverse across minimally prepared roads, whilst having more horsepower. We envisage these transporters will revolutionise the way we transport loads, offering a more time and cost effective solution for our South African clients as well as those in other global locations.”
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