The all new backhoe loader with its new and advanced features stands true to its name – Shinrai, a Japanese word that means trust, reliability and confidence.

Sandeep Singh, Managing Director, Tata Hitachi

Tata Hitachi, a joint venture between Tata Motors Ltd (40 per cent) and Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Ltd (60 per cent), announced unveiling of the all new backhoe loader – Tata Hitachi Shinrai.

According to the company, Tata Hitachi Shinrai has been designed with enhanced aesthetics and features to increase productivity, reduce fuel consumption and operating costs, with improved durability for customer applications in India. The Tata Hitachi Shinrai was unveiled at EXCON 2017, Bengaluru.

Speaking at the launch, Sandeep Singh, Managing Director, Tata Hitachi said, “Shinrai is an engineering masterpiece built in collaboration with Tata Technologies and Hitachi Construction Machinery, Japan. The all new backhoe loader with its new and advanced features stands true to its name – Shinrai, a Japanese word that means trust, reliability and confidence.”

The design team from Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery designed the new Tata Hitachi Shinrai with collaboration from both Hitachi Construction Machinery’s and Tata Technologies’ engineers. Tata Technologies’ experience in the industrial heavy machinery domain allowed the new machine to have a cabin that is ergonomically designed and engineered, incorporating roll-over (ROPS) and falling object (FOPS) protective structures, along with unique market requirements such as ‘Duck Walk’ capability, and advanced electronics such as GPS and telematics. Additionally, Tata Technologies employed their experience in Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VA/VE) and Teardown & Benchmarking (TDBM) to minimise production costs in line with competitors’ cost.

The launches at the Tata Hitachi booth included:

• ZAXIS140H: The latest addition to the GI series, promising unbeatable performance.
• The quarry variant of EX210 Super: With a heavy-duty track chain, rollers, idler and re enforced bucket and front attachment links.
• EX210 Super with an indigenous super long front attachment, re-designed and strengthened to suit Indian conditions.
• Keeping pace with technology, Tata Hitachi launched INSITE – a new telematics suite for the EX series of hydraulic excavators and wheeled products. Armed with a GPRS based remote machine monitoring application, INSITE helps the customer view machine location and operation through alerts.

Launches apart, the high point of the Tata Hitachi stall was the display of the ZH200 – a revolutionary hydraulic excavator armed with hybrid technology. A testimony to the technological prowess of Hitachi, Japan, this excavator from Hitachi is the first to introduce the revolutionary hybrid technology into Hydraulic Excavators. This excavator incorporates advanced technologies adopted from hydraulic, electric and battery-powered excavators.

Also on display was EX70H: an excavator custom built for quarry and heavy-duty applications, EX110 shovel variant: a first one of its kind in the 10T category, ZAXIS370LCH: custom made for quarry and granite applications, the super productive and fuel efficient ZAXIS470H, enabled with ConSite. Also displayed wasTL340H, the first hydrostatic wheel loader manufactured in India and the compact and power packed duo of ZAXIS20U and ZAXIS33U.

Added attractions were Tata Hitachi’s Service Vehicle, the operator training simulator, the display of a wide-range of customised attachments addressing specific customer needs and genuine Tata Hitachi spare parts.