CEA has supplied more than 150 Dynapac machines to KEE-Hire’s fleet.
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HARSH ENVIRONMENTS KEE-HIRE’S RANGE OF DYNAPAC PRODUCTS CONTINUES TO GROW, AS DOES THE COMPANY’S STRONG RELATIONSHIP WITH DYNAPAC’S NATIONAL DISTRIBUTORS CEA.
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ince 2008, KEE Hire, a division of the KEE Group, has been a primary supplier of machinery for business in Western Australia, working across a range of industries from civil and infrastructure to mining. Founded by brothers Clayton and Damon Spiers, the company has now grown with more than 150 employees across the business. An important aspect of this growth, the brothers say, has been purchasing equipment from the right supplier. As Damon Spiers recalls, the first piece of machinery the company purchased was a Dynapac. “The Dynapac CC222 was the very first piece of equipment that I ever purchased, at the beginning of launching KEE Hire,” Spiers says. “So that was one of the first things I ever did with the company, I bought a Dynapac.” Since then, Spiers says KEE Hire has acquired a full array of Dynapac rollers for compaction of soil and asphalt. KEE Hire’s Dynapac fleet has now grown in excess of
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150 units, with a variety of models supporting KEE Hire customers’ every need. “Our customers require a range of rollers, including single drums, double drums and multi-tyre rollers to cover all compaction applications from soil to asphalt. These machines range from as small as 4 tonne up to 24 tonne, we have the full range,” he says. THE CC4000C VI COMBI ROLLER KEE Hire’s range of Dynapac rollers also now includes the CC4000C VI Combi Roller. The CC4000C VI falls within the latest, sixth generation of rollers that have recently been released to the market by Dynapac with a unique set of features that will revolutionise spray seal compaction within Australian. “We are going to be the first ones with the new generation of Combi Roller in Australia, and it is a very specialised machine, designed specifically for spray sealing,” Spiers says. “The unique machine with tyres on the rear and rubber coated drum on the front will first be implemented into our very own surfacing division, KEE Surfacing.”
The Combi Roller, as CEA Product Manager Chris Parkin explains, utilises four rubber tyres at the rear of the machine, replacing what would conventionally be a steel drum. Combined with a rubber coated steel drum on the front, he says the machine provides significant advantages over the conventional use of multi-tyre rollers for spray seal compaction. “This design helps to minimise the risk of stone damage to the newly laid spray seal surface. The vibrating front drum coated in rubber provides significantly improved compaction performance when compared with a static multi-tyre roller, however the wheels on the rear provide the benefits of a multi-tyre roller creating a smoother finished surface,” explains Parkin. “The benefits of the Dynapac CC4000C VI don’t stop there, the newest generation products feature an efficient design, which aims to optimise operator comfort, reduce fuel consumption and increase compaction efficiency, all the while bringing compaction quality to a new level,” he adds.
