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SALIM’S DYNAMIC CHOICE
SALIM EQUIPMENT RENTAL AND ITS PARTNER DAIKYO KENKI CHOOSE LIEBHERR DUTY CYCLE CRANES TO EXPAND THEIR FLEET AS THEY STRENGTHEN THEIR DYNAMIC COMPACTION OFFERING
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hen UAE-based Salim Equipment Rental and Japan-based Daikyo Kenki, expanded their rental business in the Middle East recently, they continued to invest in lift cranes and duty cycle cranes. Coming together in 2015 as a joint venture to offer cranes with operators for hire to the local market, their fleet now comprises seven crawler cranes from 50-250t capacity. Both members of the joint venture have a long history to fall back upon. Salim Equipment Rental, previously a part of AAA Rentals, was launched in 1980 as a trading company by Col. Salim Ahmed Nasir (Retd.) and Mrs. Nahid Salim, parents of the company’s current president and CEO, Sajil Salim. The founders originally supplied over 1,000 units of pre-owned Tadano and Kato cranes to the MENA region and backed this up
with dedicated service. Then in 2006, they turned to the rental market with a fleet of lift cranes supplied and serviced from their Dubai premises. Today, SALIM has its own fleet of crawler cranes independent from the JV with Daikyo. Also, SALIM remains the authorised dealers of Kato crawlers from 50-250t for the UAE region. Daikyo, meanwhile, is among the leading heavy equipment rental companies in Japan. Established in 1965, it has a fleet of 120 machines including cranes and trucks. Daikyo also diversified into real estate around 20 year ago and has seen growth in that sphere, but it’s primary area of business remains crane rental, where it has a fleet of 13–700t units and over 100 operators. The most recent expansion in the joint venture fleet was made in February, when SALIM took delivery of two new Liebherr HS895 HD cranes. The two units of the 200t-capacity duty cycle crane were delivered to SALIM in a handover ceremony at its Dubai premises graced by Sekiguchi Noboru, Consul General of Japan in Dubai. The new units come after SALIM’s decision in 2019 to enter the niche market of duty cycle operation and dynamic compaction, a technique used to increase
soil density by dropping a heavy weight repeatedly from different heights on the ground. With dynamic compaction requiring duty cycle cranes, SALIM initially boght two new Liebherr HS8130.1 crane models last February. These two 130t capacity models are now working on a national Infrastructure project in the UAE. With the units finding quick success in the dynamic compaction market owing to high crane utilisation in 2020, SALIM ordered a further two units with Liebherr in November last year, this time opting for higher lifting capacities in the form of the Liebherr HS895 HD 200t models, which were delivered in February in the ceremony at SALIM’s premises. Apart from the Japanese consul general, the function also saw dignitaries, senior officials and representatives from the Japan External Trade Organisation in Dubai, Japan Bank (DIFC), Liebherr Middle East, Liebherr Austria and Daikyo. “Some ground improvement and land reclamation projects require specialised, duty cycle cranes for dynamic compaction and dynamic replacement. With Liebherr duty cycle cranes, we can improve the density
