CWP Magazine June 2012

magazine C o m b i w e a r pa rt s

a newsletter for us who love to dig

EXPANSION OF PANAMA CANAL Page 8

Wil de Wilde RETIRES Page 10

WHAT’S UP? Page 9

dalby maskin Page 12 and 13

intermat ’12 CWP AT ONE OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST EXHIBITIONS

Prioritise your teeth combiwearparts.com

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pages six och seven

page nine

Notre dame

intermat Wil 2012 de wilde page ten

A WORD FROM OUR CEO

WELCOME TO OUR NEWSLETTER It is with the greatest pleasure that we are now presenting our first newsletter. We will publish this newsletter regularly so we can keep partners, end users and the industry as a whole updated on news regarding products, organization, industry trends and other important news related to our company.

BROAD PRODUCT RANGE Now that the first half of 2012 is coming to a close we can report that at Combi Wear Parts we are continuing to expand our market presence and our product range. We are therefore very proud to welcome several new partners to our Combi Wear Parts family. In addition we can now also offer a product range that includes GET for machines up to 300 tons, which is a big part of our current success. This means

that our partners have a wider range to offer their home markets, so they can enter new segments and gain new customers.

CUSTOMER SURVEY SUPPORts OUR VIEWS Through our customer survey in December 2011 we confirmed that our customers appreciate that we continue to provide a high level of product availability and we received very positive feedback on the service we provide our customers.

We consider these to be a key factor in today’s competitive markets and our aim is to continue offering the best availability on the market.

Delivering world class products and exceeding customers’ service expectations is our top priority and is becoming ever more important. It’s therefore very encouraging to learn

from our survey that we are doing the right things.

Summer is here, and of course, we will be open all the time!

Finally, I’d like to thank all of our customers, retailers and end-users for the pleasure of working with you – I wish you all an enjoyable summer!

As our motto says, let’s “move the earth” together!

Fredrik Ivansson Managing Director Combi Wear Parts

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2012 intermat Intermat is one of the world’s largest international exhibitions for equipment and techniques for the construction and materials industries.

This year the exhibition was held in Paris, as usual, from 16-21 April. A record of over 200,000 visitors toured the show to see what the 1,350 exhibitors had to offer.

FRIENDLY AND BUSY Combi Wear Parts had a bright, open stand that attracted many visitors. We also set a new record for people attending the booth, and our 7 m3 bucket generated a lot of attention.

We invited over 100 special guests to eat, drink and enjoy the company of industry peers at our party. We would like to thank everyone who attended the exhibition in 2012 for making it such a great success.

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DREDGING FLAT OUT

WHAT IS COMBI WEAR PARTS DOING AT THE PANAMA CANAL? An enormous project is currently taking place to double the capacity of the Panama Canal and enable more and larger vessels to navigate through. The expansion is expected to be completed in time for the 100th anniversary of the canal in 2014. In addition to normal dredging of the existing canal, completely new sections are being dredged, with two new lock systems adding much greater capacity to the canal.

D’ARTAGNAN – A VERY STRONG MUSKETEER Via our partner, Vista BV, Combi Wear Parts is supplying teeth to the dredger that is expanding and deepening the west side of the Panama Canal near the Pacific. Dredging the Panama Canal is a great challenge.

One minute you are dredging soft sand, the next minute you are into granite or other hard rocks such as dolerite.

Fortunately, the project has access to one of the world’s toughest dredgers, the D’Artagnan, which generates 28,200 kW of power. The D’Artagnan, which only operates cutters equipped with teeth from Combi Wear Parts, effectively dredges through even dolerite, although at the cost of a few teeth. A big vessel like this can get through up to 1,500 dredging teeth in a day. When D’Artagnan has finished its job, the

Panama Canal will be as wide as a highway.

Naturally we are closely following this project, and the performance of D’Artagnan in particular, in order to synchronize our production with the demand of dredging teeth. This requires great flexibility and careful planning of our production runs.

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WHAT’S UP? The mining industry is very busy at the moment and we don’t expect it to slow down any time soon. This applies both to opencast pits and traditional mining for metals such as gold or copper. As a result of all this activity there are shortages of machinery and wear parts.

GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF DREDGING The dredging industry is also very active and Combi Wear Parts is a crucial partner and parts supplier to the majority of the current large dredging projects spread all over the globe. You can read about one of them in the Panama Canal in this newsletter.

COMBI WEAR PARTS IS IMPRESSED BY

notre dame

Paris is full of magnificent buildings, and Notre Dame is one of the most impressive. We decided to take a closer look at the famous cathedral when we had some spare time. It was built in 1163-1345 and has been classified by the UN as a World Heritage Site. Notre Dame is 130m long, 35 m high and 50 m wide. We started to think about how many cubic metres of earth had to be shifted to build this gigantic cathedral. The famous bell is also enormous, weighing a full 13 tons, with just the clapper weighing 500 kg. And no we didn’t see any descendants of Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame.

PROTECTING YOUR BUCKET It is becoming more and more common to protect exposed parts of the bucket with replaceable wear parts.

This is something that Combi Wear Parts has championed for many years so it’s great to see growing demand for these products. We have strengthened our offer in this area and will extend our product range even further.

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Wil de Wilde

A MUCH-RESPECTED COLLEAGUE ENTERS RETIREMENT At this year’s Intermat exhibition Wil de Wilde, a much-respected and knowledgeable colleague, went into retirement. Wil has been sales manager for Combi Wear Parts in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Spain. At the age of 66 he decided it was time to retire. We would like to thank Wil for all his years of service and wish him well for the future.

Tips & TRICKS The corner teeth on a bucket usually wear out faster than the other teeth. To get a more even level of wear and thus a higher utilization of the teeth it’s a good idea to swap the corner teeth around and replace them with teeth from the middle.

THE ESSENTIALS OF GOLD Gold is the most malleable of the metals – you can hammer out a one square metre sheet from just one gram of gold. In fact you can carry on hammering to produce a sheet you can almost see through. The average ton of earth contains just 3.5 milligrams of gold, so very precise calculations are needed to see if it is worth mining for.

Make sure the teeth do not wear down too far. Teeth that are less worn mean lower fuel consumption and less wear on the bucket. If the teeth wear too much you can damage the connection geometry of the holder, which is usually expensive to repair.

If you use ProClaws teeth from Combi Wear Parts you will clearly see the wear indicators on the teeth when it’s time to change them.

GOLDEN CUBE Gold is both rare and expensive, but did you know that if you took all the gold that has ever been mined or panned and is currently in use or in stock it would form a cube with sides measuring just 17 metres (17 m x 17 m x 17 m).

Amazing, don’t you think?

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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THIS! WORLD’S BIGGEST ARTIFICIAL ISLAND Here are some more records. Right now they are building the world’s biggest island in the United Arab Emirates. The island, Palm Deira, will measure 18 km by 9 km. Construction will require movement of an incredible one billion tons of sand and stone. Naturally, some pretty impressive dredging equipment will be needed, and 17 special vessels are lined up. On of them is the trailing suction hopper dredger, Volvox Terranova, which can shift 20,000 m3 in a single load.

Beat that!

GIGANTIC TUNNEL BETWEEN DENMARK AND GERMANY

The tunnel that will connect Rödby with Puttgarden will be 18 km long and should be completed by 2020.

This makes it Scandinavia’s biggest infrastructure project and the world’s largest immersed tunnel, three times longer than the previous record holder. When completed, the tunnel will contain a 4-lane motorway with two lanes in each direction, and a railway track.

WORLD’S BIGGEST HOLE Unfortunately, we cannot claim that Combi Wear Parts was involved in digging the world’s biggest hole (as far as we know), but here’s a picture of it anyway. The hole is in Siberia, Russia. Digging it required the removal of 180 million cubic metres of earth. To understand the scale, check out the truck below the red arrow.

WORLD’S BIGGEST DIGGER One of the biggest diggers in the world is the Terex RH 400. This is actually the world’s largest hydraulic digger. It weighs almost 1,000 tons, and the bucket has a volume of 44 m3 and can hold an impressive 85 tons. Maximum speed is a very creditable 2.2 km/h.

WHAT IS AN IMMERSED TUNNEL? An immersed tunnel, or immersed tube, comprises large blocks of cement that are sunk into a trench at a depth of 15 metres at the bottom of the sea. This trench will mostly be formed by dredging, and of course we hope that the dredgers will use equipment from Combi Wear Parts.

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SATISFIED CUSTOMER

Dalby Maskin Dalby Maskin is located near Uppsala, north of Stockholm, and is one of many satisfied customers of Combi Wear Parts. Dalby Maskin has been in business since 1989 and they currently operate 55:ans quarry and recycling station just a few km west of Uppsala. They quarry up to 700,000 tons per year at this location and can keep operating for many years to come. Dalby Maskin is a family owned operation.

Actively involved in the day to day operations are Håkan (father and CEO), Karin (mother and Office Manager), Joel (son and Head of Engineering) and Jesper (son and head of operations). The company has a staff of 17 employees.

BIG Excavator NEED BIG BUCKETS Among the machines operated by Dalby Maskin are a Metso LT140 crusher and 120-ton Liebherr digger with a 8.5 m3 bucket. The bucket originally weighed 8 tons, but after the addition of ribs and wear pucks it now weighs 11 tons. The machine is equipped with Combi Wear Part W40 teeth, adapters and lip shrouds on the front and on the side and the bottom they use Combi protectors.

IT PAYS TO THINK DIFFERENTLY Jesper Sundström explains the choice of equipment: “When we bought a bigger crusher the capacity of our old machine proved insufficient. We decided to significantly increase our production capacity by buying a Liebherr 984 C. We know that most companies choose smaller machines, but we went the opposite direction. Now we can run our excavator at a more moderate pace and put less stress on the machine.”

NO REGRETS ABOUT PROCLAWS Asked about Combi Wear Parts and ProClaws, Jesper says: “We are very pleased with Combi Wear Parts. We have relaxed personal relations and there are never any problems. We have a great relationship with them and we have not experienced any problems. They teach us how to get the most out of the GET and keep us up to date with product improvements. We are just as pleased with the product itself; ProClaws. We can with confidence say that it was

the right choice for us. We get great wear life out of the teeth and very important for us is that the teeth maintain their sharpness throughout their whole life. We can not afford to be digging with blunt boxing gloves. All in all we are very pleased with the product and the service. ” We’d like to thank Dalby Maskin for their appreciation and look forward to many more years of working together!

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What do we Swedes like to eat?

There are many dishes that are typical of a country, and this applies to Sweden also of course. We thought we’d start with something which is very popular in our office, namely cinnamon buns. It’s a Swedish tradition to get together for a few minutes every day at work, drink coffee and eat something nice. If we’re lucky, there’s a cinnamon bun on offer! Here is a recipe for really good cinnamon buns.

Ingredients for about 50 buns

Instructions

50 grams 100 grams 5 dl 1.5 dl 0.5 tsp 1 tsp 15 dl

1. Crumble the yeast into a mixing bowl. Melt the butter in a saucepan.

Add the milk and heat to about 37° C. Pour a little of the dough liquid over the yeast and stir until dissolved.

yeast butter milk granulated sugar salt ground cardamom wheat flour

Filling 100 grams butter 1.5 dl granulated sugar 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon

Brushing 1 egg, for brushing Granulated sugar, for garnish

2.

Add the rest of the dough liquid, sugar, salt, cardamom, and most of the wheat flour, save a little flour for rolling the dough. Work into a smooth dough. Cover with a tea towel and let the dough rise until doubled in size, about 30 minutes.

3. Mix the filling together.

4. Put the dough on a floured surface and work it together. Split it into two parts.

5. Roll out each portion until flat, about 25 x 50 cm. Spread with filling and roll up from long side. Cut the roll in pieces about 2 cm thick and put them in paper cups.

6. Let the buns to rise under cover for 20-30 minutes. Meanwhile, heat oven to 225 degrees.

7. Brush the buns with beaten egg and sprinkle with sugar.

8. Bake in centre of oven for 8-10 minutes. Let the buns cool covered with a tea towel.

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