Real Steel Upper North Island Sales Manager Simon Stuckey visits the Stevenson Resources Drury Quarry to check up on one of our EnduroBlades working hard on their Volvo loader.
Multi Civil Contractors Ltd have deployed two new Foxbox Trench Shields at the site of the Wellington Airport hotel development. Check out the photos below.
This impressive 7.2m long curved profile truck side was formed with a single piece of 3.2mm Hardox 450 Wear Plate. Like what you see? Follow our Facebook page to see more!
My Inner Strenx accreditation officially awarded to T&G at THE Expo 2017. Left-right: Real Steel's Luke Mathieson, T&G's Craig Jamieson, T&G's Greg Cornes, SSAB's Juha Erkkilä, T&G's Mike Stevenson.
At THE Expo 2017 at Mystery Creek in Hamilton, Real Steel, SSAB and Transport & General Engineering Co. Ltd celebrated being the first New Zealand company to receive SSAB's new 'My Inner Strenx' accreditation.
T&G has been a Hardox In My Body accredited member since 2013. Like the Hardox In My Body programme, My Inner Strenx is a quality certification for applications using Strenx steel.
Leading manufacturers who show expertise and innovation in using high-strength steel and who follow SSAB’s quality recommendations are granted licenses to put the My Inner Strenx trademark sign on their products. These companies have extensive knowledge of steel properties, fully understand the advantages of Strenx steel and continuously use them in their product development. The sign shows their customers that the product has been optimized to be strong and light, made with Strenx performance steel and manufactured according to SSAB-certified design and material specifications.
Hardox In My Body accreditation is officially awarded to TEO. Left–right: TEO's Richard Swale, TEO's Daniel Timney, SSAB's Stuart Sephton, Real Steel's Dean Aitken.
At a special event in February, Real Steel Southern Sales Manager Dean Aitken and Swedish Steel (SSAB) East Pacific Sales Manager Stewart Sephton awarded Transport Engineering Otago (TEO) the Swedish Steel ‘Hardox In My Body’ accreditation.
Sephton says that the accreditation, which allows TEO to use the ‘Hardox In My Body’ branding on its truck and trailer bodies made from the high-strength steel, “is our quality guarantee. Everyone can buy and benefit from a product branded ‘Hardox In My Body’ but not everyone can make such a product. So becoming a licensed manufacturer is only for the best in the business.”
The accreditation is a quality guarantee for Hardox in truck bodies that implies a lighter, tougher and stronger design, and guarantees that the product is made from genuine Hardox Wear Plate.
Aitken says that “TEO and its customers know the benefits of Swedish Steel and this Hardox in my body accreditation is an acknowledgement of their high level of craftsmanship and doing right by the product.”
He adds, “TEO has a proven track record of innovation with Real Steel, they’ve built over 40 Hardox bodies in the past three years and we all thought they would be a brilliant fit for the programme.”
The benefits of Hardox bodies are clear, Aitken says:
“The stronger steel means we can use thinner plate, reducing tare weights by up to 30% without compromising strength, to directly improve fuel efficiency and increase payload. Our one-piece coaming rail and side design employs fewer welds which simplifies fabrication and reduces maintenance. Hardox is more resistant to abrasion and deformation so the body will have a much longer service life while remaining in great shape. And because the floor doesn’t get dented with impacts from loading and wear you don’t have to raise the hoist as high to tip off a load which improves safety and productivity.”
We are stoked to see our innovative new Foxbox trench shield product feature in the August issue of Contractor Magazine. The trench shield played a key role for Higgins on the Havelock North Relief Sewer project.
Read the full story here.
We are proud to have been profiled by WorkSafe for a case study on our industry-leading health and safety practices. WorkSafe's endorsement and our ACC Tertiary level Workplace Safety Management Practices are the product of a culture focused on health and safety.
Check out the full WorkSafe report here.
This is the beauty of Swedish Steel. Our Strenx Performance Steel helped Gary Douglas Engineers Ltd to install New Zealand's largest truck-mounted Palfinger on this Hino 10x4 tractor unit for Tom Ryan Cartage Ltd.
Strenx steel combined with our high precision cutting and forming capability enabled Gary Douglas Engineers to create an innovative box-style crane subframe. Strenx steel has perfect qualities for this role: extreme bending resistance for huge crane loadings of up to 26t and extreme torsion resistance for loads extended up to 31m out to the side.
We cut profiles up to 9m in length for the subframe comprising single-piece top, bottom and side plates, alleviating the need for additional mounting plates and potential cracking issues. Strenx is also very workshop friendly requiring minimal weld preheat for quick fabrication.
Working in extreme conditions calls for extreme materials and know how. Real Steel makes top-end steel solutions that work harder, like you.
