RUD-Erlau to Show Traction Chains at Hillhead

Biannual event Hillhead is claimed to be the UK's major construction event and the world’s biggest working quarry show, with many civil engineering and demolition industries represented. This year's exhibition on 22-24 June will feature the latest industrial traction chain technology from RUD-Erlau, which describes itself as a “Hillhead stalwart”. Since 2007, the company reports “significant advances” in its product offering, including the Terraplus mine and quarry traction chain.

Equipped with studs designed to enable extra bite, the chain is described as light-weight and energy-saving, allowing haul trucks to move with greater ease across frozen ground in the Andes and the soft, clayey conditions typically found in coal mines.

The company has also delivered two full sets of the R75S Plus, which it describes as “the world’s largest tyre protection chain”. One set has been fitted to a CAT 994 working a large European limestone quarry and the other set is essential to a LeTourneau 1850 loading iron ore in the USA. RUD’s TPC and traction chains are also found on underground duty, in demolition and scrap handling operations and, the most challenging of all environments, steel making where they protect pot-handlers’ tyres and loaders reprocessing fiery slag.

RUD-Erlau TPCs will be on display at Booth W7 along with examples of heavy conveyor chain components and lifting and lashing assemblies.

430 exhibitors took part in the last Hillhead show, which attracted 18,393 visitors from the UK and 70 other countries. The showground which covers approximately 140,000sqm includes three areas for working demonstrations. These will include a quarry face, at which large wheel loaders and excavators load dumptrucks from a 10,000-tonne rock pile and hydraulic breakers are used for secondary breaking; rock processing, where a wide variety of screens and crushers are used to process material into single-size or graded products; and recycling, where well over 1,000 tonnes of waste material is sorted, crushed, shredded, screened, and stockpiled into reusable aggregate or waste material.