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LEARN MORE AT GENIELIFT.COM ESSENTIAL PERFORMANCE GENIE® J SERIES BOOMS ARE RIGHT-SIZED FOR JOBS AT HEIGHT 13% LOWER TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP 1/3RD THE WEIGHT OF COMPARABLE BOOMS 30% INCREASED LIFT CAPACITY 30% REDUCTION IN WEARABLE COMPONENTS AND INSPECTION POINTS NIE® J SERIES BOOMS ARE RIGHT-SIZED FOR JOBS AT HEI LOWER TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP THE W COMPARA INCR LIFT C REDUCTION IN WEARABLE COMPONENTS AND INSPECTION POINTS CONTENTS 03 PLANT / MACHINERY / VEHICLESwww.plantmachineryvehicles.comJULY 2021 08 Sustainability How the Extreme E powers its racing events 06 Safety IPAF publishes Global Safety Report 2021 32 Trucks FAMCO launches new range of Volvo Trucks - FH, FM and FMX - in the UAE 36 Trucks Al Jadawel Land Transport invests in ten 6x4 Renault Trucks JULY 2021 VOLUME 15 • ISSUE 07 16 Cover story The Manufacturers Power List 2021 12 Dealers German Gulf Enterprises stays ahead of customer needs 30 Trucks 100,000th Mercedes-Benz Truck rolls out of NAI factory in KSAEDITOR’S LETTER 04 BY DENNIS DANIEL PLANT / MACHINERY / VEHICLESwww.plantmachineryvehicles.comJULY 2021 P lantmachineryvehicles.com (pmvmiddleeast.com) will go behind a paywall from 1 July 2021. 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No part of this publication or any part of the contents thereof may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form without the permission of the publishers in writing. An exemption is hereby granted for extracts used for the purpose of fair review. Published by and © 2021 ITP MEDIA GROUP FZ-LLC. was spun off into three specialized Power Lists, each dedicated to a core market. Following the inaugural Rental Power List 2021 published in April, we present the Manufacturers Power List 2021 featuring profi les of prominent heavy equipment and commercial vehicle manufacturers that have strong corporate leadership, market leadership, company culture and a clear growth strategy. As with all PMV Power Lists, this is not a ranking of any kind. The companies featured in this list have provided details and updates about their achievements in product and market development during 2020–21, as well as their future plans for the Middle East and Africa. The common thread in this list is that all companies are market leaders in one or more segments; they have managed supply chain disruptions well during the last year, continued investment in R&D and manufacturing, strengthened their dealer network and maintained their brand equity. Local dealers continue to bear the brunt of the pandemic as markets remain depressed with the recurring problems of tight liquidity and price competition. We talk to German Gulf Enterprises (GGE) to fi nd out how the company is able to take a long-term view on the market having successfully navigated economic cycles in the past. Having been a major player in the UAE heavy equipment industry for nearly 50 years German Gulf Enterprises has evolved into a dealership and rental business representing global brands such as Putzmeister, Doosan, Liebherr, Atlas, Skyboom, Bonluck, AGG and Sullivan- Palatek in the UAE. German Gulf Enterprises sees 2021 as a recovery year based on a resurgence in demand for new and rental equipment. Gearing up for its next stage of growth, GGE plans to expand both its retail and rental business divisions for construction equipment in the UAE. T he IPAF Global Safety Report 2021 analyses the main causes of serious injuries and fatalities occurring when using powered access machines to conduct temporary work at height, highlighting the need to gather more near-miss data from across the industry worldwide to help avoid the most common types of serious accident in future. While the report, based on incidents logged in IPAF’s Accident Reporting Portal (www. ipafaccidentreporting.org), indicates the main causes of serious injuries and deaths while using powered have not changed signifi cantly across the most recent two years of data, electrocutions have increased slightly to become the joint most common cause along with falls from the platform. Over the whole fi ve-year period 2016- 2020, the most common causes of fatal incidents were falls from the platform and electrocutions, both accounting for 23% of deaths, followed by entrapments (19%), MEWP overturns/tip-overs (12%), MEWPs being struck by another machine or vehicle (6%) or hit by falling object(s) (5%). In the early days of the accident reporting project, which launched in 2012-13, the majority of reports were received from IPAF’s UK membership. As the project enters its second decade, reports are now coming in from around the world, with reports received from 19 countries across the most recent two years of data gathering, and more than 25 countries worldwide in the past fi ve years. This year the report has been presented a diff erent way than it was previously, with an executive summary giving a global overview, followed by detailed data spreads looking at each of the six main accident types broken down by location, machine type, industry sector, including lost-time-incident analysis specifi c to each incident classifi cation. Brian Parker, IPAF’s Head of Safety & Technical, says: “This new format will make the report easier to digest and understand, especially for members of the powered access rental industry and health & safety representatives at IPAF member companies, as well as end-use contractors of powered access. It may be statistically interesting to compare the number of accidents occurring around the world and between industry sectors, but it is more relevant and informative to be able to take a detailed look at electrocutions and falls from the platform, for example, to see what machine type, confi guration, location or industry sector these are occurring in, to consider what some of the underlying factors may be and to plan ahead accordingly." The improved reporting portal, launched last autumn and now available in all main IPAF languages, has helped drive up reporting from more countries around the world and gather data from a wider range of industry sectors. This enables deeper analysis to inform all of the work IPAF does to improve safety, technical guidance and training. “One thing that we all agree on is we must now focus on areas we know we need more data from – this means gathering more information about near misses. We are getting comprehensive reporting of serious injuries and deaths but need more reports of the seemingly innocuous mistakes that might have led to a serious outcome but didn’t. Near misses are important in understanding trends and preventing serious accidents in future. We hope that direct access to the reporting portal from the newly launched IPAF ePAL mobile app for operators and supervisors will empower more people to record these sorts of incident – quickly, easily and anonymously if so preferred," says Brian. “Likewise, we are getting some reports about mast climbing work platforms and construction hoists, but our database is not quite complete enough regarding these machine types to draw meaningful statistical conclusions. We will work with our members and relevant technical committees to improve reporting from the MCWP sector to enable us to give useful insights into key accident trends in future,” he adds.” 6 PLANT / MACHINERY / VEHICLESwww.plantmachineryvehicles.comJULY 2021 IPAF GLOBAL SAFETY REPORT 2021 HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR NEAR-MISS DATA TO PREVENT ACCIDENTS SAFETYP utting on a motorsport event can be tricky at the best of times, but for Extreme E it presents more challenges than most due to the nature of the locations it visits. Already, the series has visited the Saudi Arabian desert and the beaches of Lac Rose in Senegal, neither of which are home to electricity, WiFi or even toilets, and the next location in Greenland could be even tougher. The race organisers are working with a host of innovative and environmentally conscious suppliers to deliver its X Prixs in the toughest of conditions. As a series keeping its carbon footprint as low as possible it has been looking into alternative ways to charge the all-electric SUV – Odyssey 21 – that each team races, but wider than that, the paddock itself. Enter Zenobē and its second-life battery. Once a battery for an electric bus in Sweden, now a provider of power to Extreme E. A second-life battery is one that has served its intended life in an electric vehicle and has been repurposed or reused in a new application like it has done with Extreme E. Batteries are removed from EVs when they are no longer suitable for powering the vehicle, but they still have life left for further usage. This second life battery runs all utility power for broadcast, race and event control plus the all-important media centre. If this battery weren’t to be used in this way it would be recycled, although its not as easy as it sounds. Steven Meersman, co-founder and director, Zenobē, explains: “Although the recycling industry is gearing up to handle the growing volume of EV batteries, it is costly, energy intensive and not quite 100 per cent eff ective yet. By repurposing these batteries, we are creating a closed loop system reducing energy usage, waste, mining and the cradle- to-grave carbon footprint of EVs.” In addition, Power Logistics, a global leader in temporary power, has provided another four solar powered battery energy storage systems. In the right conditions the solar panels provide enough power for the Command Centre, the hub of strategic decision making during races. The other three battery energy storage systems are used to power TV communication nodes around the course, the devices that transmit the signals all over the world so the TV broadcast can be produced remotely. With the paddock power sorted, the next challenges was charging the e-SUVs so they can provide thrilling racing with some of the greatest names in motorsport behind the wheel. That is a world-fi rst in motorsport! A collaboration with UK-based AFC Energy enables all the Odyssey 21 vehicles to be charged using a hydrogen fuel cell. So what happens where there is no grid, much like each of Extreme E’s remote locations on the 2021 racing calendar? AFC Energy’s zero emission hydrogen fuel cell generator technology off ers a cutting edge solution that not only produces clean energy to charge the championship’s Odyssey 21s, but is able to do so across a range of the world’s most unforgiving environments. What if Extreme E were able to create their own hydrogen fuel at each race location using nothing more that the sun and water? New for the second X Prix – the Ocean X Prix – in Senegal, AFC Energy delivered its fi rst Hydrogen production module which produces hydrogen from water using an electrolyser powered by solar panels. Adam Bond, CEO, AFC Energy, says: “This green hydrogen is then fed into the hydrogen fuel cell on race day to produce the energy needed to charge the cars. The whole process, from the generation of hydrogen fuel to the generation of electricity through the fuel cell, is completely sustainable.” All of these innovations provide large CO2 savings. The combined use of battery storage and zero-emission car charging provide more than a 95 per cent decrease in carbon emissions. Andy Welch, Extreme E’s utilities manager says: “At Extreme E we have no choice but to confront the challenges of providing clean sustainable energy in remote locations, and the good news is that it is all possible with today’s technology and the suppliers behind you who are willing to demonstrate future energy solutions. All these innovations that provide clean off -grid power aren’t limited to Extreme E; they can be used in the wider world for example, music festivals and events, construction sites, fi lm sets and of course electric vehicle charging." 8 PLANT / MACHINERY / VEHICLESwww.plantmachineryvehicles.comJULY 2021 HOW THE EXTREME E POWERS ITS RACING EVENTS IN THE MOST REMOTE LOCATIONS ON THE PLANET SUBSTAINABILITYRAISING RAISING PRODUCTIVITY PRODUCTIVITY TO THE POWER TO THE POWER OF THREEOF THREE Get more work done in less time with the new JLG® Hi-Capacity HC3 boom lifts. 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