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coupled with an ingenious fuel injection system, results in a cleaner burn with Doosan’s G2 engine, producing much less soot. Critically, the need for a Diesel Particulate Filter has been engineered out. “For us, a major requirement was that we didn’t want a truck with a DPF as we knew we would have to take the truck out of service every shift and do a regeneration cycle for twenty minutes or more,” he says.
After extensive on-site trials and consultation with the drivers, Outokumpu placed an order with Ability Handling for nine new Doosan D55 diesel powered forklifts – complementing two smaller Doosan diesel counterbalance trucks already on site; a D33 and a D35, used for lighter duties.
Phil Sowerby points out: “We had experience of Doosans in our mixed fleet and we knew they were really reliable, they performed well and the drivers liked them. We were also taken with the Doosan design, it was straightforward and functional – it wasn’t unnecessarily complicated. And the oil-sealed brakes offered protection from
dust and grit.” He adds: “We operate an industrial site where we’re moving around a 1000 tonnes per week, so we wanted a truck that was easy to maintain in the field and that wasn’t going let us down.” The trucks supplied to Outokumpu were standard models but with hardened steel under pans fitted to offer protection from steel wire off-cuts, and forward and reversing projected warning signals, in addition to a white noise system, for extra pedestrian safety. Other features were speed limiters, weatherguard cabs with PVC doors, and accumulators to dampen load handling – all under a five year Doosan warranty package. The specification included the use of a special 2.5 m long plastic-coated pole attachment for coil handling, making careful calculation of load centres and lifting capacity of vital importance.
Service support and parts backup was a critical factor in the decision to single source the fleet from a local dealer, as Phil Sowerby explains. “Having had a mixed fleet we could compare service levels,
responsiveness and how long it takes to get parts. Ability Handling has always performed well, and we have a good relationship with them. So with our positive experience of Doosan too, this gave us the confidence to go with them.
“Coordinating the movement of coils through production and finishing, and ensuring customer orders are collated and loaded for despatch involves constant heavy
work. We have timed collections, so we know who’s coming every day and we know what they want – that’s why it’s essential that our forklift fleet works reliably. We can’t afford downtime.”
Media contact at Doosan Industrial Vehicle Louise Boston, Marketing manager Tel: 01604 825 600
louise.boston@
doosan.com
www.internationalmetaltube.com
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