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CEO’S STATEMENT
MORE DISTRIBUTORS WILL MEAN HIGHER GROWTH tely control production of wear parts under one roof. This advantage means we see no limits to developing products for even larger applications than at present.
There’s a lot happening at Combi Wear Parts right now. Several of our business areas are reporting growth and our distributor network is expanding step by step. We are also very excited about the launch of our new wear parts system for the construction industry, C-REX, at the Bauma Trade Fair on 11-17 April in Munich. Alongside the launch of C-REX, we expect to see continued growth for our other main system, ProClaws, primarily within the quarry and surface mining sectors. We will carry on developing ProClaws for several other applications and sizes so we can meet expanding market demand. Our activities within dredging remain an important and interesting part of our business. We offer several unique products that contribute to optimum and costeffective dredging. This includes our unique Duracore range, which
Our ambition is crystal clear. We will carry on expanding geographically and further strengthen our distributor network on both existing and new markets. Of course our strategy also includes a plan for continued development of both products and materials of the highest international class.
extends the life of wear parts by more than four times. We are proud to say that our products have opened up the market for several spectacular projects that would not have previously been economically viable using standard products.
I hope to meet you at the Bauma Trade Fair. Fredrik Ivansson CEO Combi Wear Parts
For the past two years, our plant in Ljungby has been adapted to supply all wear part products to our entire company, which means we comple3
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C-REX, KING OF WEAR PARTS C-REX, a new wear parts system, at the Bauma Trade Fair in Munich on 11-17 April 2016. The C in C-REX stands for construction, which is the market segment the new system has been designed for. The system has been developed for excavators weighing 12-45 tonnes and wheel loaders weighing 12-55 tonnes. The project to develop a new wear parts system began in autumn 2012, but the idea behind C-REX emerged about two years ago. Before that, Combi Wear Parts was looking at several conceptual solutions. Finally the choice fell on what would become C-REX. Once we had the idea, we intensified development with a focus on being ready for the Bauma Trade Fair. Field tests began in September 2015 in a quarry in central Sweden, giving the Combi Wear Parts engineering department the opportunity to follow the tests continuously, observing how the wear picture developed and how the design worked in a tough and real environment. Machine operators Petter Pettersson and Adam Nordén have tested C-REX. They say: “What we immediately noticed was that you can change teeth very quickly and easily. It’s nice not having to use heavy hammers that could cause major damage. Making it so easy and convenient to replace teeth is where Combi Wear Parts 4
has really succeeded. Otherwise C-REX functions exactly as expected. Finally, we would like to add that the follow-up and feedback from Combi Wear Parts worked very well. They talked to us several times a week and visited us every two weeks. Initially, it was more often than that, almost daily. They are very responsive and made every effort to ensure that the field tests ran as smoothly as possible for all parties.” At Combi Wear Parts we are very grateful that we were able to test C-REX and that cooperation with Petter and Anders worked so smoothly. To thank them we will equip another of their machines with C-REX. They have,
after all, only tested prototypes but their help meant we could optimize the final version of the system.
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C-REX has been deliberately designed with ease of use, increased uptime and total economy in focus. The four basic design criteria have been: improved overall economy, ease of use, functional reliability, and that it should be climate-smart. The result is longer teeth with a larger proportion of wear material compared to other wear parts systems. C-REX is also less susceptible to wear and tear, which means that users will get longer life out of the adapter and thus save costs for maintenance and replacement of adapter.
So why is the system called C-REX? Niclas Wechselberger explains: “The C stands for construction. REX is a direct reference to the dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus Rex, T-Rex, who had unequaled strength, extreme power and a razor-sharp bite, just like our C-REX. And, since Rex means king in Latin we thought we would be a bit cocky and call our product the “King of Wear Parts’. We bid everyone a warm welcome to the Bauma Trade Fair and to our stand no. 313 in hall A6 where we will be holding our world premiere of C-REX,” concludes Niclas Wechselberger.
Niclas Wechselberger, Technology and Development manager at Combi Wear Parts
Combi Wear Parts has also developed a unique mechanical lock that will make assembly and removal of teeth much easier. Locking can be done without a hammer and consists of only one moving part, namely a locking pin that can be used for the entire lifetime of the system. “I want to point out that the development of the new system was a team effort. Our Engineering and Development department worked closely with our Marketing staff throughout the project,” says Niclas Wechselberger, Technology and Development manager at Combi Wear Parts. 5
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OUR NEW FINANCE MANAGER Jenny Berglund was recruited to CWP on 1 February this year. She works as finance manager at our head office in Kristinehamn and also has responsibility for human resources issues. Jenny loves numbers, which certainly is an advantage working with finance, and she is also keen to influence how Combi Wear Parts develops in the future. Jenny has extensive experience in management positions within finance. She joined CWP from Bharat Forge Kilsta in Karlskoga, where she worked as accounting manager for five years. The company has 300 employees and a turnover of SEK 850 million. They produce mainly forged beams and axles for trucks. Every second truck in Europe has a product from Bharat Forge Kilsta. Before that Jenny was finance manager for two years at Axcel Components in Kristinehamn and she also worked for seven years at Deloitte in Karlstad. She has a master’s degree in business administration. In addition to contributing extensive experience in finance, Jenny says it is good to come from outside and see the company with fresh eyes. She also hopes to be able 6
longer trip was to Florida, where they spent three weeks in the summer. She also visits Berlin, where her brother lives. Asked if she has some hidden talent, Jenny replies that she is great at keeping track of many things at once. This skill should come in handy when you’re going to have good control of both finances and personnel in a successful international company.
to bring a little extra energy to Combi Wear Parts. Quite a lot of energy actually, because Jenny is both a highly energetic and very positive person. Jenny lives with her husband and two daughters in a house not far from Combi Wear Parts headquarters. She can actually walk to work in half an hour, which she thinks is a nice luxury, given that she had to travel some distance to get to her previous jobs. In her spare time Jenny likes to exercise but also be out in the forest, especially with her family. Spending time with family and friends gives her extra energy. The whole family also likes to travel. Her most recent
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A riddle A digger was once asked to do a strange job. The owners of a classy square swimming pool thought it was too small. They wanted a swimming surface twice as large so they could splash around properly. But they really loved that their pool was square, and they wanted it to remain so in the
future. However, there was a problem. There was a tree in each corner of the pool that could not be moved. So how could the digger double the surface without removing the trees or changing the square shape of the swimming pool?
Opal – a very different type of mineral Opal is different from most other minerals because it has no ordered internal structure. It is amorphous and thus has no crystal system but is composed of very small spheres of silica. And they are really very small. They are about the same size as the wavelength of light, which means opal can take on such an awesome and unique range of colours. You can sometimes see all the colours of the rainbow move across its surface.
The largest producer of opal is Australia, and black Australian opal is considered the best of all. Opal is formed in rock cracks and cavities by various minerals depositing silica which can then be transformed into opal if the right conditions arise. To give the full picture, we must point out that there are actually opals that have a specific crystal structure. But they are relatively rare.
Noble metals There are eleven so-called noble metals: gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium, mercury, ruthenium, copper, rhenium, osmium and iridium. What they have in common is that they do not react easily with other substances, compared with base metals, and they usually have higher melting points than other
The Mining Suite - the world’s deepest hotel room
Sala, 120 km northwest of Stockholm, is home to the Sala silver mine. From the 1100s to the 1960s nearly 350 tonnes of silver were mined in Sala. The mine produced the majority of all silver in Sweden over a long period. Today, the mine is protected both as an archaeological and historic site, and you can go on interesting tours of the long underground galleries. But what about the hotel room, then? Well, 155 meters underground, at the back of one of the long mining tunnels, surrounded by a trench filled with water and a giant cave, is the Mining Suite. You can live as comfortably there as in any hotel room anywhere – although without the normal view of course. The ambient temperature might be just two degrees centigrade all year round, but it is a pleasant 18 degrees centigrade in the Mining Suite. An overnight stay here is perfect if you really want peace and quiet, because your mobile phone will not work so far underground. There is a communication radio if you need to talk to the outside world. It also helps – quite a lot in fact – if you do not suffer from claustrophobia.
metals, although this does not apply for mercury. The most expensive of all commercially available metals (both noble and base metals) is considered to be platinum. The name comes from the Spanish word meaning “little silver”.
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OUR NEW PRE PRODUCTION ENGINEER IN LJUNGBY Sapa Automotive where he worked extensively with CAD. Then there was a move to Ljungby to join Enertech AB, where Johan worked in the laboratory at CTC Heat pumps for three years. After that he joined Combi Wear Parts and began work at the foundry in Ljungby. When asked what he can bring to Combi Wear Parts, Johan replies that he has a good education, experience in advanced technology and industrial work, and that he is analytical with the ability to optimize processes.
Johan Svensson became a pre production engineer at Combi Wear Parts almost a year ago. Starting with a design drawing, Johan adapts and optimizes products for casting. In addition, Johan generates production data, operation descriptions and cost calculations for new products. After production runs he does more calculating to follow up outcomes.
likes his job because there is always something happening and there is a lot of variety. He does everything from planning layouts to monitoring the results of production.
Right now Johan is busy working with the new system, C-REX, which he thinks is extra fun because he has been involved with C-REX right from the beginning. Johan really
After university, Johan joined Sapa Profiler AB Vetlanda, the market leader in aluminium profiles in Sweden. First as a trainee for 18 months, and then for 3.5 years at
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Johan was born and raised 10 km from Vetlanda, about 120 km northeast of Ljungby. He is a trained mechanical engineer after 4.5 years of study at Chalmers University in Gothenburg.
Johan, who is 33, lives with his partner in a house close to the beautiful river Lagan. They have recently moved back to the house after completing a five-month renovation and everything is slowly getting back to normal again. Most of his spare time is spent at home on building-related projects, but Johan also likes to work out and be out in the forest. He and his partner like travelling to the Mediterranean and to the sun. According to his partner, Johan’s hidden talent is patience. Whether that really is a talent or not is something that Johan’s new family member, his daughter, will be able to testify to.
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Stockholm’s archipelago
Just minutes from the centre of Stockholm you can began to see the first of the 30,000 islands that form Stockholm’s archipelago, ranging from Arholma in the north to Landsort in the south. Bare rocks and islets whipped by the wind mix with islands that are covered completely by green forest, uninhabited islands lie side by side with islands populated by sizable communities. You can find bays with still surfaces like glass and
open sea with high waves. Wherever you go in the archipelago you have the sea up close with its unique and fascinating flora and fauna.
is land. In the archipelago there are about 10,000 residents and 50,000 recreational homes, all spread over the 200 inhabited islands.
The Stockholm archipelago started to form 800 million years ago. The islands and rocks were then ground down by the ice into the forms they have today.
If you are in Stockholm this autumn, do not miss the chance to take a trip out to the archipelago. Just for a few hours maybe, or if you have more time, why not a weekend or a whole week. We promise you will not have time to get bored.
Stockholm archipelago covers about 1,700 km2, of which about 530 km2
Orange Did you know that the colour orange is named after the fruit, and not vice versa? The colour orange is associated with the following adjectives: active, emotional, energetic, exotic,
explosive, flexible, successful, healthy, happy, kind, humorous, charismatic, competent, creative, motivational, independent, provocative, vibrant, fun, stimulating, safe, sociable, tropical, wild,
welcoming. No wonder we chose this colour to symbolize Combi Wear Parts and our products.
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ÖRESUND BRIDGE Combi Wear Parts was heavily involved in the work to complete Öresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden, especially the construction of the tunnel and the creation of the artificial island, Pepparholmen. Öresund Bridge, which opened on 1 July 2000, has contributed significantly to the positive development of the region. Among the positives, tourism has increased in Denmark, while Sweden has attracted more Danish tourists. Population growth has benefited all of the Skåne region.
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On average, around 20,000 vehicles and 72,000 people cross the bridge daily on the double track railway and the four-lane motorway. Two of the towers are some 200 metres high, and high bridge rises 57 metres above sea level. The total length is 7.8 km. The cost of Öresund Bridge, including the tunnel,
was SEK 18.6 billion. Denmark and Sweden each own half of the Öresund Bridge. Combi Wear Parts obviously hopes for a repeat of the workload once the construction of the 18.2 km long tunnel between Denmark and Germany gets started.
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The world’s largest tunnel drill Deep in Seattle, northwest USA, you can find Bertha, the world’s largest tunnel drill. Bertha’s job is to drill a 3-km tunnel under the city centre. Bertha is named after Bertha Knight Landes, Seattle’s first female mayor, elected in the 1920s. We’re not talking small numbers here. Bertha is 100 metres long, 17.5 metres high, weighs 6,350 tonnes, has a crew of 30-40 engineers and cost USD 80 million. It has a capacity to drill ten metres per day. Bertha was built in Osaka, Japan, at the Hitachi Zosen Sakai Works.
Stockholm’s Vasa Museum
One of Sweden’s most popular tourist destinations is the Vasa Museum, home to the 69-metre warship, Vasa. Vasa is actually the largest object in any of Sweden’s museums. The ship had 64 guns and a crew of 145 men. She sank on her maiden voyage in 1628 and it did not even make it out of the Port of Stockholm, managing to sail just 1,300 metres. Vasa probably sank because the ballast was too small in relation to the rigging and masts. She was certainly well-built, but had the wrong proportions. Several attempts were made to salvage the ship, but only in 1961 did the ship re-emerge above water after lying for 333 years on the sea bottom. Do not miss the chance to visit the Vasa Museum in Stockholm to see what life was like on a ship from the 1600s. 11
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CORPORATION CONSTRUCT SRL
Combi Wear Parts’ SUCCESS in Romania
Corporation Construct, Combi Wear Parts’ new partner in Romania, provides solutions and products for companies working in quarries, gravel pits, etc. “Corporation Construct is focused on providing customers with long-term solutions that help reduce their production costs,” says Sebastian Breban.
customers and suppliers. The goal is that all parties will be satisfied and even pleasantly surprised.
Added value
Cooperation with Combi Wear Parts
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All over Romania The company is located in northwestern Romania, but via their sales team they are represented all across the country. Several of the most interesting projects are located in central and south-eastern Romania.
One of the product groups Corporation Construct distribute in Romania is wear parts from Combi Wear Parts. Corporation Construct has a very special relationship with Combi Wear Parts in general and with
Ewald Tettambel in particular. It is primarily Combi Wear Parts technical solutions, high quality, support, and not least, high availability and precise deliveries that Corporation Construct appreciate the most.
Satisfied customers Although it has only been a little over a year and a half since the two companies began their collaboration, Combi Wear Parts is already supplying a large number of products to Corporation Construct. Customers who use the ProClaws system in sizes W25 and W30 are extremely satisfied with the life span of the teeth and the simple assembly and disassembly routines. And customers using the smaller sizes
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are fascinated that they never need to replace teeth. The first change that is needed occurs when the bucket is worn out.
Good results with ProClaws CARB Srl, which is part of Strabag and a customer of Corporation Construct, owns a Liebherr R954 equipped with a heavy-duty bucket and ProClaws W25 tooth system. The machine is used in a quarry
with extremely hard and abrasive rock. They are extremely pleased with ProClaws. Ovidiu Vigheciu, maintenance manager at CARB Srl, says that ProClaws W25 is superior to the teeth used in the past in terms of wear life, versatility and strength. So far they have not encountered any problems at all.
CARB Srl will therefore gradually equip more machines with parts from Combi Wear Parts. In a world where sometimes you look at the price rather than quality, Corporation Construct considers that cooperation with Combi Wear Parts has been extremely successful because Combi Wear Parts offers high quality at a reasonable price. This is something that customers obviously appreciate.
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The Swedish mine that holds an unusual record Ytterby mining region near Vaxholm in the Stockholm archipelago holds an unusual world record that has brought Nobel Prize winners, chemists and geologists from around the world to come for a visit. The several mines here hold the world record for the number of basic elements detected in a single location. It is also the place that has
the most elements named after it: yttrium, ytterbium, terbium and erbium. But since no fewer that ten elements have been discovered here, there weren’t enough different names related to the site for the other six: holmium, scandium, thulium, gadolinium, tantalum and dysprosium.
Minerals and gems
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The digger simply dug out a triangle on each side. Thus doubling the surface while the square pool was rotated 45 degrees.
It is estimated that there are nearly 3,000 minerals on our planet. Around 130 of them are classified as gems and just 50 of these are used as gemstones. However, it’s not only minerals that can be classified as gems; stones that have an organic origin such as pearls, amber, coral and ivory, also get to be called gems. However, there are three factors that a mineral, inorganic or organic, should meet to be classified as a gemstone. Number one is that it must be rare, thus ensuring that it has a high value. Number two is that it should be beautiful or special in some way. Number three is that it should be sustainable, i.e. you must be able to carry or wear it without it getting scratched or damaged. So, now you know all this, why not go out and start looking for gems.