Atlas Copco has hailed its recent launch of products for its two major brands, as it begins to see gains in mining and road building.Â
The company, which owns both Atlas Copco and Dynapac, chose to exhibit the two ranges together at the recent CONEXPO event in Las Vegas to promote itself as providing end to end solutions for drill and blast and road construction.
The company has introduced rock crushers, rock drills, hydraulic breakers and compressors for the quarry or demolition business.
Heading the line-up is the new Powercrusher line of rock crushers and screeners and attendees of CONEXPO were among the first to see Atlas Copco’s new line of track-mounted mobile crushers and screeners. The Powercrusher range includes four models of jaw crushers, six impact crushers, a cone crusher, and six models of screeners.
A large section of this year’s booth was devoted to ground engineering products, a growing product offering for Atlas Copco. The new Unigrout Smart A grout plant, garnered a lot of interest, said the company. The machine now has a Progressive Cavity Pump as specified by federal regulation for grouting in the US while retaining the Pumpac piston pump, which controls both pressure and flow independently of each other.
Other products introduced at this year’s exposition, included the XATS 1050 CD7 air compressor, complete with its new, EPA Tier 4a-compliant engine; the CC 6000 CombiCutter silent demolition attachment; and the all new SmartROC T40 surface drill rig. Handheld tools were also well represented, with new advances incorporated in handheld hydraulic breakers.
Atlas Copco AB (ATCOA), the world’s largest maker of air compressors, will add a fourth division in a revamp aimed at generating more sales, as it reported first-quarter profit that beat estimates amid a global manufacturing recovery.
With plant and machinery makers looking to capitalize on the rise in road construction in global markets, Atlas Copco has also announced that it will put the business for portable compressors and generators, road construction equipment and construction tools into a division called construction technique.
The company shed 6,000 jobs in 2008 but announced in April that its net income rose to $249 million from $160 million in 2010, and is looking to hire an additional 1,000 people this year.
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