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TIPPER INNOVATION
TIPS FOR THE TOP
Innovations in in tipper bodies
are helping operators to to maximise their resources but the the impending switch to to electric drivetrains could signal major changes to to the stalwart truck of the construction sector By Dan Parton
W hen the the the tipper sector convened in Harrogate
for the Tip-Ex and
Tank- Ex exhibition recently there were plenty of innovations on on show to much of the public for the first time in a a couple of years thanks to the pandemic But despite the various lockdowns in the the past 19 months it hasn’t stopped the the sector coming up
with new products and
concepts One such company exhibiting at Harrogate
was tipper body manufacturer Aliweld which exhibited its new one-piece aluminium tipper bodies
distinct from the more traditional three-piece bodies
Trevor Marshall managing director of Aliweld explains that the body came about after asking suppliers for years if it was possible to have a a a single sheet of aluminium made to Aliweld’s size and
specification “Then when we we could we we calculated the costs of two sheets sheets rather than six sheets sheets to manufacture the the side panels of the the body ”
he explains “Taking into consideration the time it takes for two men to rack and
stack single sheets then cut and
fold them one one by one one as opposed to one one man lifting up
the one- piece panel and
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