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PLUS Winter 2017 1 WELCOME CLAYTON TRARALGON GEELONG (HEAD OFFICE) 25-27 Standing Drive Cnr Fyans & Crown Street 17-55 Nantilla Road Traralgon VIC 3844 Geelong South VIC 3220 Clayton VIC 3168 (03) 5175 6200 (03) 5223 5223 (03) 9566 0666 General Manager, Sales SWAN HILL LAVERTON DANDENONG 36-38 Curlewis Street 32-42 Spencer Street Swan Hill VIC 3585 Sunshine West VIC 3028 Ryan O’ Doherty 2-4 Fowler Rd, Dandenong South VIC 3175 (03) 5036 3900 (03) 9931 9666 (03) 9767 3600 BENDIGO TASMANIA MILDURA 11a Trantara Court 345 Benetook Avenue East Bendigo VIC 3550 (03) 5444 9199 LAUNCESTON Mildura VIC 3502 308 George Town Road (03) 5018 6100 Rocherlea TAS 7248 PORTLAND (03) 6325 0900 HORSHAM 167 Garden Street 81-83 Dimboola Road Portland VIC 3305 (03) 5521 5100 HOBART Horsham VIC 3400 2 Chardonnay Drive (03) 5362 4100 Berriedale TAS 7011 WODONGA (03) 6249 0566 SHEPPARTON 200 Melbourne Road 7847 Goulburn Valley Highway Wodonga VIC (02) 6051 5800 BURNIE Shepparton VIC 3631 Bass Highway (03) 5832 5500 Somerset TAS 7322 (03) 6433 8888 Designed by meg annabelle design Plus is published by William Adams PTY LTD as one of the many CAT PLUS services provided by your Caterpillar dealer in Victoria and Tasmania. 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CATERPILLAR and CAT are registered trademarks of Caterpillar inc. 2 PLUS Winter 2017 PLUS Winter 2017 3 ULVERSTONE QUARRIES EDDY KONTELJ REPORTS PAGE XX ON ANTARCTICA PAGES XXX AG PAGES XX WAIT PAGE XX PAGES XX DODGE TEAM UP WITH CAT WILL ADD PAGE NUMBERS AT VERY END PRODUCT SUPPORT PAGE XX WINTER 2017 ELPHINSTONE PAGE XX HAY, HELL AND BOOLIGAL PAGE XX CATERPILLAR INTRODUCES THE PM620 AND PM622 PROFILERS PAGES XX PAGES XX 4 PLUS Winter 2017 PLUS.PLUS Winter 2017 5 cant fit all on into 1 page, however think it works GENERAL INTEREST CAT NEWS with a few facts like this? Happy to only display a Golden Gate Bridge - San Francisco, IMPRESSIVEIMPRESSIVE few and can include images California (1937) • 27,752 strands – Each of the bridge’s two main cables is made up of 27,572 strands of wire and together the HOW MANY FACES DO YOU CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS wire is roughly 128,747 kms long CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS • The bridge is held together by 600,000 rivets • The 2.1 km wide “Golden Gate” strait, strong winds RECOGNISE AND HOW MANY and earthquakes all posed significant obstacles to Qingdao Haiwan Bridge – Qingdao, China (2011) Burj Khalifa (Dubai Tower) – United Arab building a bridge that would connect San Francisco With a total length of 42.5 kms, the bridge is currently the Emirates (2010) to the rest of the bay. ARE STILL ATWILLIAM ADAMS? CATERPILLAR AGAIN NAMED AS A longest bridge in the world in aggregate length. The bridge Standing at 828 metres, the twoer is currently the tallest TOP GLOBAL BRAND connects the city of Qingdao in Eastern China with the building and the tallest free-standing structure in the Huangdao suburbs, across the waters of Jiaozhou Bay. world. Hoover Dam - Colorado River, Arizona (1936) For the 15th consecutive year, Caterpillar was Named one of the 7 Wonders of the Modern World and • 4 years construction time a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark; a Millennium named as a Best Global Brand by Interbrand, with • 163 floors are habitable, covering a floor area of 3.3 • 10,000 workers million square feet Monument, achievements that had the greatest positive a ranking of #82 and an overall brand value of • 2.3 million cubic metres of concrete • 27 terraces designed into the building’s impact on life in the 20th century. US $5.425 billion. The annual report, according • 450,000 tonnes of steel architecture. to Interbrand, analyses how brands help grow • • Designed to withstand 160km/hr winds, with over • The dam is almost 690 feet thick at its base, and It is built to withstand typhoons, earthquakes up to 8.0 on businesses—from delivering on customer 40 wind tunnel tests conducted to determine the about 45 feet thick at its highest point. the Richter scale, and impacts from vessels of up to 300,000 expectations to driving economic value. wind’s impact on the building and construction • The Hoover Dam rises 725 feet above the Colorado cranes. River and resulted in the creation of Lake Mead, the The company rankings are based on three key components. • 22,000,000 – over 22 million man hours went into largest man-made lake in the Western Hemisphere. English Channel Tunnel – English Channel, The primary measurement is the financial performance building the tower and some of the building was of the branded products and services. The other two Strait of Dover (1994) completed at night – including pumping concrete components are in relation to the role the brand plays in The high speed trains move so quickly that valves in the Brooklyn Bridge - Brooklyn, New York (1883) influencing customer choice and the strength the brand has tunnel walls open and close to vent the pressure that The Brooklyn Bridge is notable for being the first suspension to secure earnings for the company. Caterpillar remained builds up as the trains push air through the tunnel. The bridge to use steel for its cable wire, the first to use explosives consistent in all dimensions that measured brand strength tunnel is 50 kms long and 76 metres deep. It is the second Panama Canal - Panama (1914) in a dangerous underwater foundation system called a Caisson, and showed an increase in the dimension focused on longest tunnel in the world and contains the longest The 77 km long waterway connects the Atlantic and Pacific and was the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time governance. Governance recognizes that we have a strong undersea portion of any tunnel. Oceans, allowing ships to pass between north and South of its construction. team of employees with the required skills and an operating America instead of the natural channels or around Cape Horn, shortening the trip by 15,000 kms. Before the project began, the chief engineer died, and the job model to deliver impactful work along with the tools and • 6 years in construction was taken over by his son, Washington Roebling who oversaw processes in place for the future. • 13,000 engineers, technicians and construction • Shipping must rise (or fall) 26 metres from one end of most of the bridge’s construction without ever leaving his workers the canal to the other apartment, due to a crippling decompression sickness. We received great accolades around the brand promise – • 11 tunnel boring machines “Champion for Your Enduring Success” and our continued • 15,000 ships cross the canal every year investment in Research & Development. The greatest • Each of the movable lock doors weights 750 Today, the Brooklyn Bridge is the 2nd busiest bridge in New York City with 144,000 vehicles crossing the bridge every day. success factor for this year’s report was the great strides tonnes and fills with 52 million gallons of water to being taken to meet customers’ needs in innovation, and the accommodate the more than 15,000 ships using the introduction of The Age of Smart Iron campaign. canal every year. 6 PLUS Winter 2017 PLUS Winter 2017 7 NEW EQUIPMENT - Building Construction Products NEW CAT 930K INCREASES PRODUCTIVITY SECOND “DIG DAY” ATTRACTS Wynyard based Bramich’s Concrete Pty Ltd have recently taken delivery of a new Caterpillar 930K ENTHUSIASTIC CROWD Wheel Loader. FROMFROM AA “PICK“PICK && SHOVEL”SHOVEL” The new 930K takes the place of a Cat 924G that has given Let us set the scene - a beautiful Spring day in Melbourne during November 2016, with a many years of reliable service for the company. temperature of 22 degrees, no wind, hardly a cloud in the sky, and to top it off, a fantastic Bramich’s Concrete directors Jye and Clinton Bramich, said array of Cat Yellow Iron on display ready to get down to business ! the decision to go with the new 930K was made easier due Statewide Civil & Maintenance are now a This provides Stateside’ customers comfort that the job to the benefits of William Adams support, the location of rapidly expanding company, but it wasn’t will be done as required the first time and handled by the the branch at Somerset and the willingness of the dealer to This was the start of something special, and known at The Merlo Hills training and demonstration facility always that way. The husband and wife decision makers. demo the new 930K. William Adams as Dig Day 2. The event was held at our continues to be the perfect site for such events, and a combination of Amy Brasser and Drew Powell, Statewide Civil and Depow Group are strong advocates Training and Demonstration facility, “Merlo Hills” on site special thank you must go to John Merlo and Richard “We could witness the gain in productivity at the at William Adams Clayton. Beard who ensured all operators were first and foremost based in Melbourne’s north east have nurtured of the Caterpillar brand. They currently own within their safe, and had a full understanding of the features and it from the ground up, and are now responsible fleet six Cat excavators (1 x 301.7DCR, 2 x 302.7DCR’s, 1 depot and improved operator comfort with the air This was by far, the most successful Dig Day that we benefits available to them from the premium machines in for managing nine Cat machines and fourteen x 303.5ECR, 1 x 304E2CR and most recently, a 308DCR), ride suspension seat and ride control feature”, had ran to date, with over 60 customers attending the the market place today.