Construction Magazine January 2018 | Page 94

AUSTRALIAN CRANE & MACHINERY
hitherto issued some 15 new machines a year . But a new 10,000sqm facility with a production workshop and a test shed is under construction and should be ready by March 2018 , employing around 60 people on platform assembly . Even this plant will be too small by then . In August 2016 , ACM opened a plant in Korea to do the steelwork and pre-assembly of EWP superstructures , which are shipped to Australia for customisation and mounting on the trucks . This facility was expanded in October this year , tripling its footprint , so it ’ s not surprising that more space in Australia is urgently needed .
The new plant will have a very large 1,600-tonne capacity press brake , line boring machines , laser cutters and automated welding for the higher-run items . It will also have a 20m high shed so that testing can take place under cover . This will be the most comprehensive EWP travel tower and mobile crane manufacturing and repair facility in Victoria , if not Australia . But the next phase is much more ambitious – in October the last car rolled off the line
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