Sandvik is launching MAKO, its new lip system engineered and manufactured to meet the demands of high-abrasion underground hard rock mining.
Sandvik cast bucket corners, heel shrouds and the hammerless locking system add structural strength and high wear protection to the bucket, ensuring consistent savings on each ton hauled. The company’s latest ground engaging tools (GET) solution increases loader availability and helps maintain bucket capacity throughout service life.
The Sandvik MAKO system has an all-new patented lock system, comprised of a single cassette-style lock – simply insert and tighten. The hammerless removal system included in the lock design increases the ease of shroud removal, simplifying life for operators and maintenance crews.
The new lip system will also reduce cost per hour, as a result of the new Sandvik material specification SS5000, with increased hardness and improvements in yield and tensile strength. The new design also reduces fatigue through bucket corners, resulting in a longer fatigue life and longer bucket lip life.
True value
• Sandvik MAKO mechanically attached GET can extend the bare lip life by up to 400 percent, improving total cost of ownership, productivity and bucket maintenance downtime.
• In comparison to the predecessor Sandvik Blue Pointer II system up to16 percent improvement in wear life with less throwaway material.
Las Vegas, US, 26 September 2016
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Sandvik Group
Sandvik is a high-tech and global engineering group offering advanced products and services that enhance customer productivity, profitability and safety. We hold world-leading positions in selected areas – tools and tooling systems for metal cutting; equipment and tools, service and technical solutions for the mining and construction industries; products in advanced stainless steels, special alloys, titanium, and metallic and ceramic resistance materials. In 2015, the Group had about 45,000 employees and sales of about 86 billion SEK in more than 150 countries.
Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology
Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology is a business area within the Sandvik Group and a global leading supplier of equipment and tools, service and technical solutions for the mining and construction industries. Application areas include rock drilling, rock cutting, crushing and screening, loading and hauling, tunneling, quarrying and breaking and demolition. In 2015, sales were approximately 33 billion SEK with about 15,000 employees in continuing operations.