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works within its normal operating range. and a shear kit for cutting reinforcement. No booster is needed.
What the customer takes from that is not a machine. It is material Warranty is 24 months.
that no longer has to move. A demolition contractor who already runs an MB attachment owns INTERACTION
the second half of the process. Bring the structure down, then
What are the USPs of your products vis-à-vis competitors? What crush the debris into usable aggregate on the same slab, with
is your company’s focus on R&D and technological innovation? the same carrier and operator.
I would rather describe what the machine is than what other Alongside it we showcased the BF90.3 with a live demonstration,
machines are not. A crusher bucket is a jaw crusher first and together with the BF60.1, the MB-L160, the R900 drum cutter and
a bucket second. That distinction matters, because the failure the S-18 screening bucket. The demonstration was the point of
mode in this category is a bucket with jaws bolted into it: the the stand. Nobody here has been convinced by a static machine
structure flexes, the jaw gap wanders, and output size stops being under lights.
repeatable by the third month.
Ours is built the other way round. The body and structural frame Do you practise ‘Make in India and Sell Globally’ — using your
are built so that the crushing chamber holds its geometry under India manufacturing base to supply the global market?
load. The jaw plates are designed to keep their edge over time No, and I would rather answer that plainly than leave room
and can be turned rather than replaced, and a blockage clears for inference. MB has no manufacturing base in India. Every
without emptying the bucket by hand. Output size is set on site machine we sell anywhere in the world is designed and built at
to match the material. Fara Vicentino in Italy, at a single site, and exported to more than
Research and development sits in the same building as 150 countries.
production at Fara Vicentino. It means a design change and the That is a deliberate decision, not an omission. This is a wear
machine it affects are twenty metres apart, and that something product working under high cyclical load, and The variables
observed on a site in India can be tested against the same steel determining whether a crushing chamber holds its geometry
that will be cut for the next batch. over years of heavy use are metallurgical and dimensional, and
they are unforgiving of variation. Keeping design, testing and
After-sales service as a strategic differentiator. production inside one building means a change to any of those
It is the differentiator, and that is true of any attachment in this is verified against the machine itself rather than communicated
category. down a supply chain and hoped for.
A crusher bucket is a wear machine, deliberately built so that What is in India is the part that has to be: the company itself,
the components taking the punishment are the components present since 2013, with coverage across the country, and more
you replace: jaw plates, chamber liners, hydraulic seals. The than a decade of field data from Indian material feeding back
consequence is that purchase price is not really the decision. into what gets built in Italy.
What matters is whether the wear items are there when the Localisation is a fair question. My answer is that we localise the
machine needs them, and whether the cost of running it over parts of this business that benefit from being local, and we do
several years can be budgeted at the start rather than discovered not localise the part that does not.
along the way.
What matters to us is how many days in the year the machine What is your outlook for the components industry and your
could actually work, not how quickly someone shows up after it company going forward?
stops. The question is not how quickly somebody arrives after a The carrier is becoming the platform, and the attachment is
breakdown, but how many days in the year the machine could becoming the thing that decides what the carrier is for. The
not work. Wear here is predictable and published to the customer, question moves from how many machines do I need on this
and a contractor who knows those intervals plans around them site to how many functions can I get from the machine I already
instead of reacting to them. have.
What I would resist is the idea that service begins once the Two pressures push the same way. Sites are more constrained
invoice is settled. A machine that stops on a rural project two than they were: urban work with neighbours on three sides, tunnel
hundred kilometres from anywhere does not cost a repair. It and slope work with no room for a plant, sites where material
stops the project. That is the cost we are managing, and the one has to be dealt with where it lies. And skilled operators are not
contractors here ask about first. abundant. Equipment that needs one man and one carrier rather
than four men and three machines is not a convenience there. It
Detail the new products launched at bauma CONEXPO INDIA. is the only arrangement that can be staffed. The environmental
We were on stand O.D15, and the machine we have brought to argument arrives at the same place by a different route, which is
India for the first time is the MB-PT1650 demolition pulverizer. why I do not treat it as a separate agenda.
It is MB’s first move into primary demolition rather than the For our own part, the work ahead is unglamorous. Keep the
processing that follows it. The PT series offers 360-degree machines available and the wear parts moving. Keep testing on
continuous hydraulic rotation, so the operator presents the jaw the material contractors here actually feed them.
at the angle the structure requires instead of repositioning the Keep explaining a category that still surprises people the first time
carrier. Three jaw kits are interchangeable on the same body: they watch it work. This market rewards patience and punishes
crushing for primary work, pulverizing for reducing what is left, noise.

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