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Forging ahead with Allison HEAVY HYDRAULICS HAS SEEN A CONTINUOUS SURGE IN POPULARITY OF OMFB PRODUCTS SINCE INTRODUCING THE ITALIAN RANGE TWO YEARS AGO. Rubbish trucks are loud enough anyway,
unbeatable selection of OMFB PTOs to suit
without being woken up at 5am by the
Allison transmissions.
winning formula that saw the business grow into other regions within a short
raucous whine of one fitted with an inferior
One of the fastest growing hydraulic
space of time.
power take-off (PTO). That’s just one
transport solution providers in Australia,
Today, Heavy Hydraulics is known as a
example of the thousands of ways that
Heavy Hydraulics is also known for its expert
national distributor of quality manufactured
Allison transmissions service the transport
knowledge of Allison transmissions and the
hydraulic transport products that are globally
industry daily and, where fitted with an
PTO options that exist for them. It also has a
recognised. It offers an extensive range of
unrefined PTO, they have been known to be
wide range of other highly engineered and
products to suit all types of applications,
noisy in operation. Engineers at OMFB set
innovative transport hydraulic products from
including PTOs, gear pumps, piston pumps,
out to overcome this aspect and in 2020 the
OMFB, to offer across its branches in Sydney,
control valves, hydraulic tanks, cylinders and
manufacturer released its Precision range of
Adelaide and Perth.
control systems.
low-noise units. The performance exceeded
Heavy Hydraulics’ parent company, Heavy
For Heavy Hydraulics, having OMFB products
all expectations, with the company now
Automatics, has been operating for over 30
in its catalogue is an ace up the sleeve that
being confident in claiming the product to
years and is the largest Allison Transmission
may have something to do with its growing
be the quietest on the market.
distributor in the Asia Pacific region. The
success. The same can be said for the
OMFB’s latest development is a range
Heavy Hydraulics arm was co-founded by
OMFB range in Australia. “OMFB and Heavy
of heavy-duty units – offering up to a
Michael Applebee and Danny Guthrie six
Hydraulics have together created a trusting
whopping 700Nm of torque – with units
years ago, creating a unique combination of
team that is mutually beneficial. Since
already working in the field and showing
experience and expertise across transmission
we’ve come onboard with OMFB, they have
promising results. Heavy Hydraulics offers an
and power take-off products alike. It’s this
added more to our product portfolio than we originally had. We’ve also been able to focus on areas that we traditionally hadn’t,” Michael says. “We offer hydraulic solutions from OMFB for all types of applications within the transport industry. We would have the biggest Allison PTO range in the country. We have complete knowledge of the product range, and also service the product nationally.” Michael, who has worked in the truck hydraulics side of the industry for over 25 years, has extensive knowledge of the Allison product range. “I’ve been in the industry long enough to know all the different brands and I knew that OMFB has a very solid reputation for making quality products. Therefore I was really humbled to be approached by them to become a national distributor in 2020. Having local support in Australia, and support from the manufacturing team in Italy, we get best of both worlds.” OMFB’s product range covers all transport industry applications from waste and concrete trucks and tippers to truckmounted cranes and vacuum trucks. “One
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