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SOUTHERN AFRICA 4
AFRICA 6
GLOBAL 8
MARKETS
22 TECHNOLOGY
Durable by design: digging deep with
Volvo’s largest ever excavator
Thursday 4 May 2017 saw the South
African launch of Volvo Construction
Equipment’s much-anticipated 60-tonne
A60H articulated dump truck (ADT) and
90-tonne EC950E crawler excavator at
regional distributor Babcock’s Middelburg
facility. First unveiled at bauma 2016 in
Germany, the launch marked the first time
the two mining machines are available for
purchase in southern Africa.
28 PROFILE
Succeeding through succession:
engineering successful relationships
Caldas Engineering is a supplier of
re-engineered wear parts for fixed and
mobile crushers used in the quarrying,
mining, construction, demolition and
recycling industries. Twenty-one years
after starting the company from his
dining room table, company founder
and owner Rui Caldas spoke to Robyn
Grimsley about what he has learnt over
the past three decades.
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INSIGHT 40
SNEAK
peek
Keep a look out for our upcoming
September/October issue, which will
feature articles and insights focusing on
environmental matters as they relate
to the quarrying industry. If you would
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QUARRY SA | JULY 2017 _ 3