PRODUCT FOCUS
Ride-on rollers (up to 2.50 ton) often come in a choice of petrol or diesel engine.
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market, the consensus is that since we He continues that in South Africa, market, similarly, promotes the use of
import most of our machines from overseas, pedestrian (walk-behind) rollers are still reversible plate compactors, but with
the markets are rather similar. “There is a very popular, as opposed to the overseas the add-on of remote control operation.
local manufacturing sector in South Africa markets where these rollers have been This allows them to be placed in a
with respect to certain classes of equipment, replaced by reversible plate compactors trench, while the operator controls the
and while they are competitive in terms and ride-on rollers. This he believes is compaction effort from above, thereby
of quality and price, they are nevertheless because reversible plate compactors increasing the safety benefits.
hampered by lower volumes and exchange are more cost effective, with a better rate fluctuations,” says Du Plessis. performance to price ratio. The overseas
JUNE 2018
Fennell says that about sales, single-
drum rollers make up approximately