InfraStructures - October 2011 - Improved Competitiveness with New Lightweight Trailer Bodies + Edbro CX14 Tipping Gear

Improved Competitiveness with New Lightweight Trailer Bodies
+ Edbro CX14 Tipping Gear

Wilcox Commercial Vehicles Ltd, one of the UK’s premier aluminium commercial vehicle body builders, is growing its business by offering its customers more, in terms of improved payload, faster tipping, reduced weight and increased reliability, thanks to the adoption of Edbro’s new CX14 tipping cylinder on the company’s current generation of lightweight rigid bodies.

Wilcox manufactures lightweight aluminium tipper bodies for rigid and tipping trailers, with Monocoque, U shape, Plank and Wilcolite models, in capacities up to 44 t. These trailers are used in tough extraction industries and general haulage: they combine weight saving with the highest levels of rigidity and torsional stiffness for maximum stability.

“With our new designs of lightweight trailers, we are helping customers to offset the added weight of equipment, such as Adblue tanks, pumps and SCR catalysts,” said Chris Bartlett, Wilcox sales and engineering director. “However, the gains that we have achieved in this area could easily be forfeited if we chose the wrong type of tipping gear. By using EDBRO’s new CX14 on 8x4 rigid trucks we actually complement the savings achieved from our lightweight designs, giving our customers an industry- leading package that provides that extra bit of capacity. This makes a difference over longer distances, making large jobs more commercially competitive.”

The Edbro CX14 cylinder is designed for rigid vehicles with up to 32 t nominal GVW, the combined ram and tank CX14 delivers weight savings of up to 230 kg against competitor products for the same application, and much faster tipping speeds.

The CX series offers users the benefits of reduced weight, from a one-piece laser-welded tube construction, faster tipping speeds, increased payloads, and fit-and-forget reliability. In addition, the fully-integrated ram and tank design of the CX series offers ease of integration for body builders.

Source: Edbro Plc