EXHIBITOR PROFILE YANMAR CONSTRUCTION EUROPE
STAND K26 Yanmar direct Yanmar Construction Equipment Europe has chosen the Show to
highlight its new, more direct UK distribution strategy and its determination to gain more market share. Nick Johnson visits its French manufacturing plant.
This year at the Show, Yanmar compact machines will be exhibited directly by the manufacturer itself rather than by an importer. This reflects Yanmar Construction Equipment Europe’s desire to gain a bigger share of the competitive UK market.
Complete with sizeable fabrication and machining areas, the Saint- Dizier facility has one main assembly line that can produce 25 machines a day. It makes around 6,000 units a year with 70% being exported. In 2017 it celebrated the production of its 70,000th Yanmar machine. EHN’s factory tour revealed the ability to paint individual parts in customer colours. At present, 25% of production gets a special paint finish, with many models departing during our visit in the distinctive red and grey livery of the European rental company, Loxam, which is clearly a big customer.
At the end of the production line there is a special area for customising models. Work carried out here includes fitting tilt-rotators, and Yanmar works closely with Steelwrist from Sweden to provide a complete CE-marked machine and attachment combination.
‘Next generation’ machine
Yanmar Construction Equipment Europe will show the ViO12 mini excavator and the C08 tracked dumper at the Executive Hire Show.
Yanmar mini excavators first entered the UK market through distributor, Saville Tractors, back in 1983. In recent years these machines have been imported through A&Y Equipment but, now that company (as we reported in the November/December EHN) has become Molson Compact Plant selling Kobelco, Yanmar is busy building up its own regional dealer network.
The move comes as Yanmar has been celebrating its 50th anniversary of compact excavator production. That landmark Japanese machine in 1968 was the non-slewing wheeled YNB300. The company’s first full 360° slew mini - the YB1200 - appeared in 1975.
First zero tail mini
Whilst it was not the first Japanese company to make a mini excavator, Yanmar claims to have made the first zero tail swing model in Japan. Called the ViO, it appeared in 1993. The company subsequently had the distinction of introducing the first machines of this type in the UK during 1998. To mark the 50th anniversary, Yanmar has produced ten of its recently introduced SV60 models in a special red livery, being sold through the growing dealer network across Europe.
The SV60 is one of the machines made at its long-established factory at Saint-Dizier in France, which is the source for many of the company’s compact tracked excavators that are sold in the UK.
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The ‘next generation’ SV60 now being made in Saint-Dizier is a short tail tracked machine with an operating weight of 5,635kg. It has a 33.4kW (44.8hp) Yanmar 4TNV84T engine and a ViPPS hydraulic system with four hydraulic pumps. Equipped with a monobloc boom it can dig down to 4,200mm when fitted with the optional long dipper arm.
The SV60 benefits from having a very short rear overhang and a minimal front turning radius (only 2,240mm). Usefully, this 1,990mm- wide mini has a very compact working envelope of only 3,565mm, and incorporates a spacious cab.
Other SV short tail minis are the SV08 (weighing 1,035kg), SV16 (1,730kg), SV18 (1,975kg), SV22 (2.260kg) and the SV26-6
The first Yanmar mini to appear in Japan 50 years ago was this non-slewing, wheeled YNB300.
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