international
construction
july-august 2014
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Efficiency imperative
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for use in large-scale earthmoving.
Indian natural stone exporter, Pacific Stone Mart, operates a
fleet of Volvo CE excavators for work on its granite quarries in
Rajasthan.
The company was the first company in Rajasthan to buy a
Volvo EC380D-Series excavator. It now operates a fleet of Volvo
excavators, including an EC360BLC, five EC210s B-Prime
Series, six EC380Ds and a Volvo L350F block handler.
The site’s goal is to produce 50,000 m
3
of granite this year. “This
is easily achievable with our Volvos in action,” said B R Agarwal,
founder and owner of Pacific Stone Mart.
At the Carrière de Cusy quarry, situated in France’s Parc Naturel
Régional du Massif des Bauges, Hitachi is the brand of choice.
The quarry, which produces 110,000 tonnes of limestone per
year, has a strict environmental policy which involves protecting
local wildlife and observing environmental regulations on noise
limits, dust and machine emissions.
“It takes us one to two years to extract the limestone from each
section of the quarry,” explained Yves-Pierre Mathieux, co-owner
of Carrière de Cusy. “Then in the following year, we restore the
land, planting trees and vegetation in a continuous process.”
Speeding the process along are two new Hitachi machines, a
ZW250-5 wheel loader and a ZX290LC-5 excavator, supplied by
local dealer Teramat.
Denis Mathieux, co-owner of the quarry and operator of
the ZX290LC-5 excavator, said, “The lifting capacity is excellent,
it is still powerful even when handling heavy rocks and it has
to work hard on this site. The TRIAS hydraulic system makes
operating the machine so smooth and it helps to make it highly
productive.”
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Highly sought-
after Desert
Cream Granite
is being
extracted from
a 300-hectare
mining site in
Mungeria, in
Rajasthan, with
the help of Volvo
excavators
Smooth operation
is one of the
benefits of the
Hitachi ZW250-5
wheel loader,
according to
operator Denis
Greiller at the
Carrière de Cusy
quarry in France
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