The smart cities have to be connected with each other through expressways and need to have well laid out road connectivity within the cities.
– Rajinder Raina, General Manager – Marketing, Escorts Construction Equipment
Escorts Construction Equipment, a major player in construction and material handling equipment, offers wide range of soil and asphalt vibratory compactors, tandem vibratory roller, and motor grader in the road equipment segment. In an interview with B2B Purchase, Rajinder Raina talks on the emerging opportunities for road equipment business and his company’s offerings.
The government has come up with ‘Make in India’ campaign and ‘100 Smart Cities’ project.  How do you see these initiatives to benefit road building segment.The concept of 100 smart cities is a holistic one wherein it shall all start from construction of roads that shall be good enough to cater to the traffic of next few decades. Some of them would be greenfield whereas widening of most of the existing would also be on. This will throw up demand for the entire range of road building equipment.
The smart cities have to be connected with each other through expressways and need to have well laid out road connectivity within the cities. We can say that smart roads make smart cities.
Brief us on the new technologies in the field to reduce fuel consumption yet not losing operational efficiency.As per the thumb rule, 60 per cent of the operational cost goes into fuel. This makes fuel consumption a major differentiating factor between any two machines. However fuel consumption should be measured in terms of the output delivered per unit of fuel consumed – absolute fuel consumption in production machines has no significance. BS III and BS IV are a move towards better fuel efficiency however there are other factors as well. EGR (exhaust gas recycling), inter cooling etc. have become standard. There are electronic data cards, stroke smart cards which monitor and regulate various functions to make engines work intelligently to deliver best fuel efficiency under variable load conditions as these engines sure subject to varying load cycles.
Please share the details of your major offerings in the sector of road equipment. Escorts offers complete range of soil and asphalt vibratory compactors and also has a mini tandem vibratory roller. In soil category, Escorts offers compactors of two weight classes. We also offer motor grader as a part of road equipment. Work is on to upgrade the equipment to meet the future requirements.
What is the Escorts’ sought after model for road building and why? The most sought after equipment remains Escorts soil compactor model EC 5250 and tandem vibratory roller HD 85. The mini tandem vibratory compactor model 3664 is a leader in its class. However the model launch for this year will be Escorts soil compactor model EC 2420.