< PreviousAL TAYER MOTORS OPENS FIRST FORD TRUCKS 3S FACILITY AT DUBAI INVESTMENTS PARK A l Tayer Motors, the UAE’s offi cial Ford Trucks importer-dealer, opened the fi rst 3S – sales, service, and spare parts – a facility for the brand at Dubai Investments Park, in the heart of the city’s transport and logistics hub. The 2700 square metre facility exclusively dedicated to Ford Trucks includes a showroom with a two-truck display, a comfortable service area that includes a customer lounge, and a fully operational service center with six work bays. The facility is staff ed with sales and service personnel to help customers with all their requirements. “Our Ford Trucks business continues to grow, and we now have a strategically located all-new facility with service as well as sales operations and more, making it very convenient for our customers. It will help to reduce downtime, increase operational effi ciencies of their businesses, and help us to connect better with them,” Ashok Khanna, chief executive offi cer at Al Tayer Motors said. The Ford Trucks facility has been designed with an energy-saving building management system (BMS) to control the lighting, air conditioning, and natural skylights – to create a great working space for our customers and teams while reducing its carbon footprint. All oil fi lters and waste in the facility are recycled contributing to a more environmentally friendly operation. According to Bahattin Topçu, managing director Middle East & Africa at Ford Trucks, “We congratulate our UAE partners Al Tayer Motors on this new facility built for Ford Trucks. It is an important milestone and a signifi cant investment in increasing operational effi ciencies, with the Jebel Ali Port and the Al Maktoum International Airport very close by. We look forward to seeing our customers more often in this facility to help them with any transportation-related requirements they may have,”“Over the course of our nearly nine- year partnership, Al Tayer Family and Ford Trucks became more like family than business partners. We have a lot in common in terms of vision and goals. Today, we are crowning this collaboration with this beautiful facility, which will enable us to provide high-quality service to our valued customers. The opening of this new facility will be a milestone for us in the United Arab Emirates market, contributing to our regional presence. Hopefully, it will also bring good fortune and prosperity to the Al Tayer Motors team,” said Dave Johnston, Deputy General Manager, Ford Otosan. Meanwhile, at the launch, customers from various industry segments including construction, waste management, transportation, cargo, and logistics displayed their vehicles at the event. Al Tayer Motors signed the Ford Trucks brand in 2014 and has since successfully established and grown its market share in the UAE’s heavy commercial vehicles sector. The dealership retails the full range of commercial vehicles in the UAE including the award-winning Ford Trucks F-MAX, Construction series, and Tractors & Road series. 40 PLANT / MACHINERY / VEHICLESwww.plantmachineryvehicles.comMARCH 2023 TRUCKSBEDROCK LAUNCHES FIRST BSP-TEX RAPID IMPACT COMPACTOR (RIC) TO UAE RENTAL MARKET BEDROCK team in action Nabil Salim of BEDROCK with Adrian Cooper of BSP-TEX B EDROCK Construction Equipment FZE, a leading construction equipment supplier in the region with nearly four decades of experience in the region's heavy equipment industry, has launched BSP RIC16000, fully made-in-UK product, for the fi rst time in the UAE market. "We are the fi rst equipment rental company to introduce, BSP RIC16000, this rental product, to the UAE market," Nabil Salim (owner & director, BEDROCK) said in a statement, adding that the company has already received multiple inquiries from leading ground engineering contractors for this machine and is now looking forward to meeting their requirements. The UAE-based equipment supplier is the exclusive dealer of UK-based BSP TEX Ltd., a 117-year-old company that is one of the world’s premier manufacturers of hydraulic piling hammers and ground improvement equipment, for the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman markets. Around a year ago, BSP TEX chose BEDROCK to be their Middle East-based reseller. According to BEDROCK, RIC is a technique allied to dynamic compaction that can be used to increase the bearing capacity of soils through controlled impact. The treatment is eff ective in the top layers, typically up to a depth of 6 meters, though improvements of up to 9 meters have been seen in some conditions. BSP-TEX representatives. Adrian Cooper (chief technical offi cer) and Darren Warburton (commissioning engineer) were present for the event. We had most of the International Ground engineering contractors attend our product launch. Few of them had already placed orders with us for brand new machines. It was a good opportunity for our customers to come and see the product in person. "Moreover, we are a dealer for Japanese KATO Crawler Cranes. Products include brand-new crawler cranes with capacities between 50 and 250 tons and its sales of authentic parts, "BEDROCK said in a release. Crawler cranes (50-350 tonnes range), BSP RIC rigs (9 and 16 tonnes), High energy impact compaction (HEIC) rollers, and electric vibrofl ots are among the equipment rentals off ered by BEDROCK. Additionally, 180KW vibrofl ots from the BEDROCK rental fl eet are perfect for vibro- compaction and vibro-replacement tasks. BEDROCK is an ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001 certifi ed company based in Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai. All its equipment are stored in their JAFZA (South) yard, which also has a dedicated workshop facility for equipment maintenance. The company claims that it understands the requirements of the current market and acts based on those needs. BEDROCK foresees a strong demand for RIC equipment and looks forward to adding a few more similar machines to its rental fl eet to meet the demand gap. 41 PLANT / MACHINERY / VEHICLESwww.plantmachineryvehicles.comMARCH 2023 EQUIPMENT Sensor activated shade canopies. J ohnson Arabia, a leading provider of lifting solutions, has completed a challenging project that involved lifting and positioning massive steel columns for the enhancement of the Al Ain Grand Mosque. The mosque, adorned with verses from the Quran, began construction in 2013 and was completed in 2019 due to a delay in major projects in Abu Dhabi. OVERCOMING CHALLENGES IN LIFTING HEAVY STEEL COLUMNS Johnson Arabia was tasked with lifting and positioning multiple 22 tonne, 12-metre-high steel columns to install sensor-activated shade canopies for the outdoor prayer areas of the mosque. The team planned the lift of the steel columns with its Terex-Demag 350-tonne 2200 crawler crane (CC2200) with a 108m straight boom. The lifting operation presented several challenges, including the visibility of the ends of the columns and the conversion of the parking space near the mosque to a high load-bearing area. For the lift, the Terex-Demag crawler crane and a 100-tonne Liebherr performed the lift in a tandem fashion. First, the columns were lifted off the fl atbeds, then the CC2200 was employed to position them upright, and then the Liebherr was used to keep the bottom of the column off the ground to ensure accurate positioning. To mitigate the visibility challenge, the team communicated closely with each other – with the rigging team consulting with the installation team to ensure accurate placement of the columns. Another challenge was converting the parking space near the mosque to a high load-bearing area, which was achieved by strategically placing crane mats after ground pressure calculations. Additionally, Johnson Arabia also obtained special permits for the job and confi rmed that no work was done or lifts were performed during prayer times as well as ensuring full safety of the columns if any were mid-lift. Overall, Johnson Arabia’s successful completion of this project demonstrated its expertise and commitment to providing safe and effi cient lifting solutions for even the most challenging projects. In addition, the construction and improvements of the mosque serve as a testament to Abu Dhabi’s dedication to religious and cultural development, and Johnson Arabia noted that it’s proud to have been a part of this landmark project. JOHNSON ARABIA SUCCESSFULLY LIFTS MASSIVE STEEL COLUMNS FOR IMPROVEMENTS ON AL AIN GRAND MOSQUE Johnson Arabia presents an overview of the project’s scope and signifi cant challenges that were overcome to accomplish a ground-breaking achievement in the improvement of Al Ain Grand Mosque MACHINERY 42 PLANT / MACHINERY / VEHICLESwww.plantmachineryvehicles.comMARCH 2023Constructive. Credible. Connected Construction Week is the leading industry brand delivering exclusive multimedia content that matters to the Middle East. 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