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Trailord's 41-ton
payload rigid-drawbar custom-made for Mondi. |
Upgrading trailer design and fabrication technology is an integral part of the moving the trailer manufacturing industry forward, enabling designers and builders to produce trailers that meet the stringent demands of a booming market. Two leading trailer manufacturers rely on new technology to produce top-class trailers.
Kearney's marketing manager, Charles Lovell says, "We recently upgraded our Design and Development department, under the guidance of chief engineer, Carlos da Silva, with a new computer system - the Pro Engineer/Wildfire 3.0. The design team is now able to swiftly create models of parts and assemblies during the engineering process of new trailer development."
Lovell says that a new thermal cutting machine, the Plasmatome 25 HPC, with a cutting speed of 10 metres per minute, equipped with a 3 metre-wide, 14 metre-long railway bed will give Kearney "that much-needed extra output and quality control in an extremely busy growth period in production and sales."
These upgrades to the Kearney's Tulisa Park headquarters are augmented by a brand new twin down draft, 18m x 5m x 5m spray booth, "complete with extractors that comply fully to BOC regulations," adds Lovell. "This two-phase system - extracting followed by baking, ensures a superior paint finish on all our trailers," Lovell concludes.
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A Payloader tipper,
made using the latest design and fabrication technology by Kearney engineers. |
High on innovation
Trailord is a company with a prestigious track record for innovation and its latest offering is a payload winner the Paper and Pulp industry. |"It's a rigid drawbar combination," says Trailord's Rob da Silva. "The combination of rigid body and full four axle trailer weighs around 6500 kg allowing for a Payload capacity of 41 tons, excluding 2%. The need for such a unit arose when Trailord was approached by Super Group to design a light weight unit to transport pulp bales for Mondi. These units were so successful that Mondi won an award for the savings produced."
Their ultra light range weighs in around 7300 kg for a superlink combination and 5000 kg for a tridem semi trailer, all of which are manufactured from special high strength steels. "These trailers have been designed for a specific purpose in mind and are mostly used on dedicated runs or for uniformly distributed loads only," da Silva says. "These innovative bodies are all designed using the latest computer aided design programmes and are manufactured using high precision processes such as laser machines."
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