Tough without compromise

Part of Chris’s Body Builders’ (CBB) Hardox product range, the Lumiere is a lightweight option for bulk carriers to get the resilience of the Hardox product while reducing tare weight.

The tipper body uses a formed side to increase capacity while reducing tare weight to ensure they are operating an efficient bulk transport solution.

For CBB CEO, Chris Debono, it’s important that operators get every kilogram possible onboard.

“I think it’s a really good option for somebody who’s in the market for tare weight sensitive equipment but wants to have a bit of versatility in what their fleet can achieve,” he says. “It makes the fleet coordinator or owner operator a little bit more versatile. The traditional Hardox product is quite heavy, and this prohibits it from being used in tare weight sensitive applications. By using the Lumiere range you get that same toughness as the Hardox, but you don’t have to compromise on tare weight.”

Lumiere enables a reduction in fuel usage while giving better payloads and requiring less maintenance over an aluminium product.

It’s just a tougher solution, something that’s bulletproof that you can put into a variety of different situations and have one unit that will do them all.

The increased strength in the bodies design allows less material to achieve the same strength in the body. With the addition of wear plates in the body’s walls and the Lumiere’s signature curved sides, operators can achieve better payloads can be customised to suit a range of applications to suit every individual need. Ph:

Customers lucky enough to have experienced the Lumiere firsthand say it’s great to have a steel product which can be used across a different variety of fields that aluminium bodies wouldn’t dare go.