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Brickmaker fired up by Kobelco SK380LC-10’s performance
Manufacturing clay bricks in South Africa has followed a centuries-old method of mining the clay, allowing it to weather or sour, then mixing it with water and coal before it is extruded into shape and cut into individual bricks, which are stacked outside to dry. Then they are stacked into a large rectangle called a clamp and allowed to burn from the inside until baked hard.
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Kobelco SK220XD is Ka Lethabo Trading’s first Excavator
An aptitude for mathematics has created opportunities for Mandisa Cele, owner of Ka Lethabo Trading in Pietermaritzburg. She has had a fulfilling career as a teacher and is now a successful entrepreneur and construction contractor with a Grade 5 CIDB rating. She is also the proud owner of a new Kobelco SK220XD-10 Excavator that can be seen working on the extensive N3 upgrade project between Durban and Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal.
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Kobelco Excavators and Bell Loggers drive mechanisation at GDH Harvesting
Excavators using hydraulic technology have come a long way since Sir WG Armstrong & Company first used water to drive an excavator when building the Hull docks in England back in 1882.
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Local contractor grows his fleet with a new JCB 3CX Global
The platinum deposits in southern Africa are said to be in the shape of a giant three-leaf clover. The mines that dot parts of its eastern limb around Steelpoort and Burgersfort contribute valuable foreign currency and provide jobs for many people who live in communities around the mines.
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Solid relationship keeps Andru Mining coming back for more blue Bells
In today’s structured corporate world, it is rare for a customer to engage with a design engineer of any product, let alone make suggestions as to how that product may be improved. This is exactly what keeps a major South African mining contractor brand-loyal to a market-leading manufacturer of articulated dump trucks (ADTs).
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Eswatini’s Top Technics expands with Bell Loggers and Skogger
When Cedusizi Dlamini wanted to start his own forestry contract harvesting business, he turned down a lucrative loan offer from a family member as he didn’t want to risk any disharmony in his family that loaned money may cause. Instead, he did it the hard way, paying back a substantial loan from another party over a mere twelve months.
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JCB, JS205, 3DX Plus, JCB 116D, Roller, Backhoe Loaders
Growing up in the Mthambeka section in Tembisa on Gauteng’s East Rand, inspired a young man of that area to make his mark in civil construction and bulk earthworks in South Africa’s busiest province. Vusi Sithole’s father, Mike, built houses on Johannesburg’s East Rand, the area that now falls under the Ekurhuleni Municipality. Vusi came to work in the area too, learning about building materials in the yard of a large national building material supplier.
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Timrite grows its fleet with Bell Forklift and JCB Wheel Loader
A marked saving in fuel consumption has justified the purchase of new and more efficient material handling equipment for a Mpumalanga-based manufacturer of timber products.
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