Columbia aims to meet industry requirements and provide complete solutions via the platform.

bauma CONEXPO is the largest show for construction machinery in North India with a good number of local and foreign exhibitors. It is well marketed and has been able to attract a significant number of visitors from the relevant industry segments, according to Ramesh Babbar President and Director, Columbia Machine Engineering (I) Pvt Ltd. The company aims to meet prospective companies keen to enter into this business and brief them about its latest offerings to meet their requirements and provide complete solutions.

Innovative offerings
The company shall be displaying newly designed and manufactured Planetary Mixer in this show. This is new equipment to its range and is exclusively made in India from group company Techmatik of Poland. While displaying Planetary Mixer, the company will also talk about Big Board Machines from CMI and Techmatik. Columbia Machine has made several design changes on its flagship product SPM20 and also recently launched new and fully automatic concrete block machine SPM30. The model SPM30 machine is provided with a unique Rack Loader or Unloader Model UL30 made in India with technology from Columbia Machine, USA. UL 30 provides completely automatic loading and unloading the production pallets in to the Racks.

Further cured products are automatically cubed on wooden pallets using the Plate Style Cuber PSC 200 again made in India with technology provided by Columbia Machine, USA. This increased pallet and product handing efficiency and improves productivity as well as reduces product handling damages drastically.

Babbar says, “We have made design changes on our flagship model SPM20 to make it more price effective and suited to the ever changing demands of the market. Now we can make products as short as 25mm and tall as 175mm.” Another enhancement is the special mold design with core puller arrangement. This is a special attachment or accessory to model SPM 20 block machine similar to front feed drawer. This works with the specially designed molds to produce speciality products on SPM 20 machine like flyash bricks with hole, interlocking solid blocks and special retaining wall blocks.

Unmatched support
Columbia Machine offers the versatile, innovative concrete products equipment in the industry. The existing concrete product machine model SPM20 provides customers a plant with an ideal combination of a high technology machine with medium capacity and low investment in pallet and product handling. Its simplicity and ease of installation or dismantling makes it an ideal solution for project works.

Babbar says, “Columbia pioneered the first semi-automatic, hydraulically operated block machine over 80 years ago with the unique Columbia Vibration Technology (CVT). No other concrete products equipment supplier can match the versatility, economy and quality of Columbia.”

The company’s experienced local sales and service network, along with easily available local spare parts, moulds and training facilities provide unmatched world-class support locally. The team of experienced engineers can design a plant to fit local production needs as well as provide installation support and training for plant personnel.

Babbar says, “We had a fabulous year so far as compared to the same period last year and expect the same to continue. We are very optimistic for the next financial year as well, though elections are coming up which can severely impact the contraction and real estate sectors.”

We have made design changes on our flagship model SPM20 to make it more price effective.
Ramesh Babbar, President and Director, Columbia Machine Engineering (I) Pvt Ltd