The mining sector is the backbone of the country’s growing economy by providing valuable raw materials required by all major industries. Sectors like power generation depend on continuously feeding large amounts of coal for thermal power plants. With industrial output and infrastructure on the rise, the need for iron ore, limestone, stone, and other minerals and ores is also growing. Growth in irrigation projects involving the building of dams, tunnels, culverts, and canals as well as the demand.

The Tata Motors’ “Construck” Range of Mining Tippers has always been the preferred workhorse in the mining operations of coal, iron ore, minerals, stone, and limestone, as well as a wide range of operations in irrigation and infrastructure applications like tunnelling, canal-building, and soil movement. These technologically-advanced tippers are built robustly to ensure continuous, round-theclock operations—meeting production targets and project timelines.

These powerful 300HP tippers, in 28-tonne and 35-tonne configurations, feature the Cummins ISBe 6.7L 6-cyl BS6 engine. Their high 1100 Nm torque, coupled with well-engineered transmission and rear-axle configurations, ensures high pulling power and gradeability – a fundamental necessity in mining and irrigation applications. This high torque at low engine speeds, combined with a wide, flat torque curve, ensures fewer gearshifts and superior driveability, improves tipper fuel economy and reduces driver fatigue over long hours. These trucks feature three unique, technologically advanced drive modes—Light, Medium, and Heavy—which allow the driver to choose the best power-torque combinations based on the load-terrain-speed requirements. Selection of the Heavy mode maximises the pulling potential during laden uphill trips, and selection of the Light mode during empty return trips ensures higher fuel economy. These features increase vehicle productivity while lowering fuel consumption, resulting in higher revenue and lower operating costs.

Their fully reinforced chassis frame is robust and durable to sustain heavy loads on undulating terrain. Heavy-duty clutches, gearboxes, and planetary hub-reduction rear axles ensure high pulling power with high uptime, faster turnaround time, and low maintenance costs. The heavy-duty bogie suspension provides a solid muscle to carry the heavy loads across challenging terrain and offers high dynamic stability in off-road conditions. The New Generation Technology (NGT) brake systems ensure cooler braking operations, thereby improving the brake life by up to 40 per cent. They also result in enhanced tyre life. A choice of long-lasting mining tyres, in sizes 12×24 and 11×20, ensures the application’s right traction.

Hill Start, a technologically advanced feature, ensures a safer uphill drive by momentarily preventing the tipper from rolling back, allowing the driver to safely navigate up the slope while reducing both tyre and clutch wear. The engine brake ensures superior downhill control through engine compression release, thereby increasing the life of the service brake and tyres. The cabin could be completely tilted to provide easy access to aggregates for service and diagnostics, thereby reducing the service and repair time. These features reinforce the power of lower total cost of ownership through sustained lower operating and maintenance costs and, simultaneously, ensure higher uptime and higher revenue for the operator.

The Premium and Tough Prima Cabin provide a fatigue-free driving experience, allowing for prolonged hours of operation in challenging and harsh environmental conditions. The Tilt & Telescopic steering wheel and adjustable driver seat offer a comfortable seating posture suitable for long work hours. The Prima Cabin is independently suspended at four points, ensuring enhanced vibration damping, seating comfort, and stability. The all-steel cabin also features a conveniently placed rear-view mirror and a blind spot mirror to ensure the utmost safety in mines.

These tippers are available as fully-built vehicles with various wheelbase options and heavy-duty box (16/20/23 m3) and scoop (16/19 m3) body configurations. These heavy-duty tipper bodies are built with strong, tough Hardox material to ensure longer life. Customers prefer these fully-built options for superior quality and faster deployment into operations.

With our endeavour to ensure high uptime for fleet owners, Platinum Plus Comprehensive Onsite AMC with Uptime Guarantee is offered with the industry’s best commitment on uptime at a fleet level for two years with varying hours of coverage based on the duty cycle and applications. The Tata ‘Construck’ Range of mining tippers is fitted with Fleet Edge – Tata Motors’ next-gen digital solution for effective fleet management, to increase uptime and productivity and reduce the total cost of ownership. Owners and operators could remotely track their vehicles’ performance, driver’s performance, and fuel economy and get instant notifications in case of fuel theft. The Fleet Edge is offered a free subscription for three years.

The ‘Construck’ Range of Mining Tippers comes with the best-in-the-industry warranty coverage of 6 years/6000 hours*. Tata Motors also offers Sampoorna Seva 2.0 and Tata Samarth – our commitment to commercial vehicle driver welfare, uptime guarantee; on-site service; and customised annual maintenance and fleet management solutions. These services can be suited to the customer’s unique business requirements.

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