Delving right into a customisation specialist in truck physique and different haulage options, IM just lately spoke to Josh Swank, Philippi-Hagenbuch Chief Progress Officer. PHIL truck our bodies are particularly engineered to minimise physique weight and maximise payload. Throughout design, its engineers work with shoppers to find out the correct physique weight-to-payload ratio as requested by the consumer
Q Are you able to give a short overview of PH’s providing to the mining vehicles sector when it comes to customised HiVol® physique options when it comes to historical past of growth?
Philippi-Hagenbuch offers a variety of absolutely customisable hauling options for mines. Particularly, our HiVol line consists of mining class our bodies, water tanks, lowboy and backside dump trailers. With a completely customised resolution tailor-made to the precise operation, mines guarantee an ideal match with their current hauling and loading tools. This additionally results in extra productiveness because the options are optimised for the fabric they’re hauling. Our mining class our bodies are a good way to spice up that operational effectivity as they’re engineered to make use of the truck’s full rated weight and maximise payload. Whereas optimising the haul truck physique is usually high of thoughts, generally a trailer is the higher resolution. Our sturdy backside dump trailers are particularly engineered to operations’ wants, designed to soundly maximise payload regardless of the fabric. We even have numerous mines come to us for water tanks to increase the lifetime of their haul vehicles and increase effectivity and security when mitigating mud on haul roads. And, for hauling mine tools itself, we developed lowboy trailers designed for protected loading and unloading to effectively transport tools. Our lowboy fashions provide capacities starting from 200 to greater than 2,000 tons. Lastly, Philippi-Hagenbuch was based in 1969 with tailgates as our first innovation, and we’ve significantly expanded from there. Since all the pieces we make is engineered-to-order, we’re continuously growing new merchandise. We embrace the problem of crafting sensible options to robust issues, evolving our choices as our prospects’ wants and tools evolves.
Q The truck our bodies world is very aggressive with numerous suppliers; what are PH’s differentiators?
What units us aside is our dedication to engineering objective and client-specific options to deal with our shoppers’ particular challenges, and to engineering these options for max life and sturdiness. Regardless of the product or the make and mannequin of haul truck, we customise every resolution based mostly on the operation and hauling wants. It’s crucial for operations’ haul vehicles to be appropriate with loading tools and that they obtain most payload and hauling stability – objects that off-the-shelf our bodies can wrestle to supply. Along with being customized engineered, we design every product with most sturdiness. As one instance, we just lately put a deal with light-weight mining our bodies. There are cycles the place lighter-weight our bodies are common as a result of they permit customers to dedicate extra of the truck’s rated weight to payload, however there was a stigma round lighter-weight our bodies; and so they had been usually dubbed as ‘throwaway.’ We needed to rewrite that script and began engineering light-weight mining class our bodies with Hardox® 500 Tuf metal that decreases physique weight whereas growing abrasion resistance. This ends in a light-weight resolution with 10-20% larger payload capability and prolonged physique life. We don’t simply add sideboards, or tweak an possibility from an current design, we engineer distinctive physique options for every consumer – on a world scale – that we might argue no different physique producer is doing any longer. It’s a lot simpler to design commonplace designs and to supply choices akin to liner packages and sideboards; now we have chosen to not take the straightforward route, however to take the perfect route, that ends in a superior expertise for our shoppers. Additional demonstrating the sturdiness facet, every water tank we’ve engineered continues to be working in the present day. We’ve been making water tanks for greater than 25 years; and none are displaying indicators of rust, corrosion or failure. Evaluate this to the typical water tanks available on the market, which regularly final 5-7 years, and it speaks volumes to how meticulously we engineer every resolution to make sure an extended working life.
Q Are there any specific HiVol markets or purposes in mining that Philippi-Hagenbuch is especially identified for?
Our HiVol mining class our bodies can be found for a full vary of mining purposes, with particular designs for onerous rock, coal, overburden, dual-purpose, oil sands and all different mining purposes. Past hauling materials, our water tanks assist operations achieve effectivity by upgrading their help tools for essential mud management purposes. We’re identified for fixing haulage challenges and for engineering an answer that takes care of issues that our shoppers didn’t have a earlier resolution to deal with.
Q Do you’ve got any examples of buyer suggestions or web site software case tales for HiVol which you could share?
One distinctive instance that involves thoughts is once we partnered with a photo voltaic salt extraction mining operation in Mexico. The operation had a fleet of on-highway backside dump trailers that, as a consequence of publicity to the extraordinarily corrosive salt surroundings, had been down for repairs as much as 30% of the time. We labored with the corporate to supply them three 80 ton capability off-highway backside dump trailers with elements to resist the corrosive surroundings for minimal upkeep. We used distinctive Duracorr chrome steel plates to minimise the salt’s corrosive results. The outcome was nice to see, because the operation doubled its every day manufacturing and skilled significantly streamlined upkeep. One other case that stands out is a buyer in Texas who had lengthy handled challenges of hauling dust and clay. The fabric grew to become sticky and really troublesome to handle when the climate grew to become scorching and humid. They tried certainly one of our load ejectors and, as a consequence of their effectivity features, invested in additional than 50 to outfit the operation’s whole fleet. This was one other instance how our capabilities prolong past our bodies and may entail customized options to deal with particular challenges.
