The Chinese and Canadian governments have reached a trade agreement that opens new doors into China's growing wood products market for B.C. logs.
The installation of an overhead crane-supplied by Kaverit Steel and Crane with the boom and grapple from Rotobec-has been a solid and productive solution for straightening out misfed and skewed logs at BC pulp mill Celgar.
Armando Diana learns how Rotobec Inc. lifts its customers and their products to lofty heights through its premier lines of material handling equipment.
Crater Enterprises has long been associated with Grande Cache, Alberta and logging. A new opportunity presented itself in Coal hauling for Grande Cache Coal. Crater Enterprises started the operation with a 300 size machine and a bucket loading trucks from the coal pile feed by a conveyor system. Terry Coray the owner of Crater Enterprises mentioned that this method was not a great utilization of loading time and wanted to reduce truck wait times at the pile.
When a bucket alone can't handle the job, look for a thumb, a grapple, or a hybrid attachment to help you seize the moment.
Rotobec - a leader in continuous rotation - designs, manufactures and markets materials handling equipment using hydraulic rotation system technology that enables users to optimize their operations.
The New Generation Rotobec Orange Peel grapple can handle different kind of materials such as scrap metal, recycled material and unstacked shortwood logs, shredded material.
A MAJOR grapple-specialist will be among the hundreds of exhibitors at AUSTimber 2008 in Mount Gambier from 3-8 March.
The rotating Rotobec head can turn, pull and maneuver full-length felled logs out with less collateral damage, points out Berry. Saving the new re-gen and other growth is a major objective on most sites TDB works.
