Friday, January 21, 2011

DMS LOCKS IN SIX MORE COALTRAM SALES

 

Mining services group Diversified Mining Services (DMS) continues to build on the success of its locally-manufactured Atlas Copco Coaltram utility vehicles with the sale of a further six vehicles to a large coal producer in the Illawarra region of New South Wales.

 

The first of the tailor-made vehicles was delivered to the customer before Christmas with the remainder to be delivered throughout 2011. The vehicles were specifically designed to cater for the client’s unique mine requirements with DMS working closely with their client throughout the design and construction phase.

 

The sales are further evidence Coaltram utility vehicles are quickly becoming the underground diesel vehicle of choice for the industry. DMS has also recently delivered a second vehicle to Centennial Coal’s Airly mine and a fifth vehicle to Donaldson Coal’s Abel Underground mine near Newcastle. Other Coaltram owners include BHP Illawarra, Mastermyne and BMA.

 

DMS Underground Coaltram General Manager Craig Anderson said the high level of demand for the vehicles had justified the company’s decision to invest in a long research and development phase.

 

“The Atlas Copco Coaltrams are Australian-made vehicles for Australian conditions and the industry is quickly realising the competitive advantage they provide in delivering long term productivity and efficiency gains,” he said.

 

“The Queensland and New South Wales coal industries have really embraced these vehicles and the more we put into the market the more demand we are receiving. We are well advanced with our plan to double our production capacity over the next 18 months to satisfy customer demand.”

 

The Coaltrams are manufactured in Beresfield near Newcastle by DMS.

 

Mr Anderson said other articulated LHD vehicles used in Australian underground coal mines have had minimal changes or improvements in the past 10-15 years.

 

“With a Tier 3 electronically controlled engine and the onboard MONEx management system the Coaltram offers significant advantages for future vehicle tracking and uploading of operational critical data to be integrated automatically into the existing mine site management systems,” he said.

 

 DMS, an unlisted public company, was formed in May 2009 with the merger of five well respected and successful mining services businesses. The merged businesses were Anderson Group of Companies (the Coaltram vehicle designers), Ausgroup Industries, Ausscaffold, East Coast Engineering, AllSteel Fabrications and MachineTek Engineering. In December 2010 DMS further acquired Induspray Australia and Valley Scaffold in the Hunter Valley

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