Rosco Contractors now owns over 40 machines from Volvo Construction Equipment and uses them at a variety of mine sites across New Zealand. The efficiency, speed and reliability of the units helps the company bring faster production to its mining clients and grow its own business.

For over 20 years, Rosco Contractors has built its reputation on an ability to deliver on spec and on schedule. What started as a small contracting company in 1995 has grown into an established company with a strong reputation and over 100 employees. And as demand for the company’s services continues to grow, Rosco Contractors is looking for more efficient and reliable machinery to support its clients in the mining sector.

TransDiesel showed the world the true meaning of kiwi ingenuity, sweeping the board at the prestigious Volvo CE Masters finals — with teams finishing in first and third place. Battling it out against eight other highly experienced teams from across the globe, the TransDiesel crews produced a masterclass of grit, determination and innovative engineering over two gruelling days in Eskilstuna, Sweden.

The Volvo CE Masters is a highly demanding skills competition open to technicians and parts personnel of authorized Volvo CE dealers worldwide. Designed to showcase the unparalleled know-how and practical knowledge of Volvo-accredited staff, TransDiesel are hugely proud to take home the crown for the first time.

TransDiesel Ltd has purchased Translog Limited in Nelson, as of 1st April 2019.

Translog Services Ltd was formed in 1992 as a parts & service company operating in the Nelson / Marlborough region and in 1996 Rowan & Julie Coutts purchased the business from the original owners.

In 2006 Translog Services Ltd relocated to its current site with the construction of a large purpose-built workshop in Brightwater alongside State Highway 6. Translog developed into a leading construction and forestry maintenance business and as a trading dealership for TransDiesel, held service agencies for Volvo and Yanmar construction equipment.

At HG Leach & Co’s Matatoki Quarry, just south of Thames on New Zealand’s North Island, their mobile crushing spread is in full flight. HG Leach has partnered with MIMICO to provide the company with the capability to manufacture various grades of sealing chip in a completely mobile operation.

The operation at Matatoki is set up in two parts. “The initial unit consists of a Metso LT106 jaw crusher, a Metso LT200HP cone crusher and a Metso ST2.4 mobile screen, which are manufacturing the feed stock to then go to the mobile chip circuit,” explained Garth Taylor, MIMICO’s Crushing & Screening Business Manager.

Mix Up Concrete knows that to secure a steady supply of concrete to its customers, having the right machinery – efficient and reliable – is an essential part of its operation, and Porter Group came up trumps.

Mix Up Concrete is a relatively new name in the Tauranga construction market, but is made up of some familiar faces. It was established in September last year by Kyle O’Brian, owner of Base Up Concrete Construction, in a 50:50 partnership with HR Cement.

Mix Up has taken over the plant and staff of Bridgman Concrete, and is operating out of the old Bridgman site in Greerton while a brand new facility is built in Tauriko. The new facility will be capable of producing 80 cubic metres of concrete an hour.

Volvo Construction Equipment and its customer Skanska have recorded groundbreaking results from their Electric Site research project – including a 98% reduction in carbon emissions, a 70% reduction in energy cost and a 40% reduction in operator cost.

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) and its customer Skanska have been testing the viability of the Electric Site research project over the last 10 weeks at Skanska’s Vikan Kross quarry, near Gothenburg, Sweden. The results are now in and they are even better than expected. The tests showed a 98% reduction in carbon emissions, a 70% reduction in energy cost and a 40% reduction in operator cost.

Whatever the vista out your office window, there is precious little that will compete with what the upper reaches of Horokiwi Quarry has to offer.

Thanks to the unique terrain surrounding the Capital, Horokiwi Quarry can exist—as it has done for decades—seemingly right next door to the Wellington CBD.

It isn’t, of course, but such is the elevation you rise to as you power 260 metres up the hill behind the main asphalt production area that all of a sudden, it looks like you could reach out and touch the Cook Strait Ferry Terminal to your right, Eastbourne to your left, or Matiu/Somes Island straight ahead. All the while, directly below, ADTs and wheel loaders speed back and forth like they would in any remote quarry anywhere in the country.

The product of 100 years of cone crusher evolution, Metso’s new MX redefines the way we think about cone crusher performance with claims previously unimagined; efficiency, wear part utilisation, safety and automation.

Metso unveiled the new machine at last year’s CONEXPO-CON/AGG global trade show in Las Vegas. MIMICO, the New Zealand distributor of Metso's fixed and mobile crushing and screening equipment, parts and service, will display a Metso MX4 cone crusher at QuarryNZ, which is set for Hamilton’s Claudelands Arena between July 18 and 20.

Matamata Industrial Machinery Imports Ltd (MIMICO) has been appointed as the sole New Zealand distributor for Superior Industries’ washing systems and conveying equipment.

As demand for more stringent material specifications grows and quarries progress further into their reserves, the need to wash aggregate materials increases. Superior supplies wet processing solutions to meet the needs of the market and will wash and classify bulk materials to an impeccable specification.

The product range on offer in New Zealand will include Superior’s Aggredry® Dewatering Washer for fine materials, which will be on display at the 2018 edition of QuarryNZ, and the Alliance™ Low Water Washer.

An increasing workload has seen KB Contracting & Quarries expand and upgrade the equipment in its operations, recently buying a new Sandvik crusher and screen, a Hyundai loader and a Bomag roller from Porters in Christchurch.

With a self-explanatory name, KB Contracting & Quarries does exactly that – contracting and quarrying. Based in Christchurch, the firm has been in business for 40 years.

The contracting side specialises in new urban road construction and reconstruction work – something they’ve been getting plenty of in the years since the earthquakes did so much damage to the city’s infrastructure. The contracting side is backed by the company’s quarry operations, which it uses to source and process aggregates.

When an earthmoving equipment customer buys a new piece of gear, it’s standard practice for the machine to be covered by a manufacturer’s warranty for a number of years or several thousand hours. But the same doesn’t usually apply to parts for that same piece of equipment.

However, buyers of Komatsu equipment can take advantage of a unique offering from the company: every new Komatsu genuine part supplied and fitted by one of its skilled service technicians is fully covered by a 24-month/4000 hour warranty (whichever comes first).

Komatsu’s just-released Intelligent Machine Control (iMC) technology provides a solution to one of the major challenges facing New Zealand’s construction industry: the lack of skilled operators at a time when clients are demanding ever-higher levels of precision combined with increased productivity.

Currently available across dozer and excavator models, the fully integrated iMC system has already shown its ability to deliver significant improvements in efficiency and productivity for contractors around the world compared with conventional construction processes.