ROUGH TERRAINS Ӏ SECTOR REPORT
GRove RT for Indonesian gold mining business
Indonesian gold mining business PT Arafura Surya Alam has purchased its first Grove rough terrain crane. The GRT8100 will be used to support a major program of construction work for the company, along with regular mine operation and plant maintenance duties. The GRT8100 was sold to ASA by Cranserco, Manitowoc’s Indonesian dealer for Grove rough terrain cranes. The purchaser chose the Grove GRT8100 to meet its need for a robust 100 t capacity rough-terrain crane with the ability to work in tight spaces with excellent manoeuvrability and supported by an in-country dealer. One of the RT’s first tasks will be to support construction of several new facilities on the mine
site, including a warehouse, fuel station, staff accommodation and processing plant. Once this work is completed the GRT8100 will remain on site and support general operations. Crucially, the crane will be able to handle the 65t transformers at the mine’s operations to ensure these vital pieces of equipment are maintained regularly to keep the job site running. The Grove GRT8100 rough-terrain crane has a capacity of 100t and up to 73m of reach when
the 47m main boom is fitted with its full complement of jib and intermediate lattice section. Power comes from a Cummins QSB6.7L engine. There is an eco mode for operations and Manitowoc’s Crane Control System (CCS) oversees all functionality and ensures efficiency on site.
outside, customer-facing work,” he says. “My appointment is certainly part of a new corporate strategy from Terex that puts the RT product at the centre, with a completely new focus on the product. And being physically based here at our factory in Crespellano, all the daily activities in the company can be better coordinated and supported. "The management of Terex
certainly sees a huge potential in the product.” The reasons for Terex’s faith in the future of rough terrains are as outlined above: there are tasks which only RTs can do; and there are other tasks that RTs or ATs can do, but the RT can do them better
and more economically. “One reason their purchase price is so much cheaper than ATs is that they are so much simpler,” Montanari says. “They do not need to have all the road-drivability elements – the regulations, the road-traffic compatibility requirements can all be side-stepped. And the inconvenience of needing a separate vehicle to transport them can be minimised: we do that by keeping the overall width of our RTs to less than three metres, which means they can be transported without needing special permits. So the total cost of ownership can be very advantageous. “ATs and RTs are actually very
different types of crane, and in the end the markets and the customers for them are completely different.” Another part of his job is to expand that market: “We are trying to get into countries where RTs are not so popular yet. If you look at the southern part of Europe we have a huge market here in Italy but with countries that are very similar, for example Portugal, Spain or Greece, RTs are not so common. So we are thinking of ways to highlight the capabilities of our cranes there, perhaps to show the advantages they have over small city cranes or all terrains, for example. And I think that there is room for us. There are very many things in common between, for example, Spain and Italy and we are confident and sure if we can work correctly with a market like Spain and explain to the customer the benefits that an RT can give, especially in the cost of ownership of the machine, we can certainly enter the market where today the all terrain is dominating. “Again, the crawler crane
customer is also different, with his own special needs; but of course RTs perform well in very difficult ground conditions, so probably with our product we can also eat a bit into the market of the crawler machine. “During my six months so far
with Terex I have been able to meet distributors and importers and customers; and customers tell me the key thing they look for is performance. The crane must be easy to use, to maximise their productivity. And certainly our RT range, with the new Terex operating system TAOS and with the T-Link telematics platform, ticks all those boxes. They are easy to use because on every crane the operating system is the same, which means that one operator can use the 35 tonne model and then moved to a 90 tonne version without any extra specific training. f
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