Dumfries-based AMD Contract Services has purchased 乐播传媒 JS130, JS145, JS220 and JS290 tracked excavators, which all have the new 乐播传媒 Ecomax engine.
It carried out tests to compare the new JS220 against a 2010 乐播传媒 equivalent. On exactly the same heavy-duty application, the new machine used six litres less fuel per hour 鈥� a trend which it sees mirrored across the fleet.
AMD director Fraser Dykes said: 鈥淭he fuel economy on the new machines is incredible 鈥� up to six litres per hour when compared to previous models. We are saving approximately 拢4 per machine per hour. For our contracts division, which could typically complete 2500 hours per annum, that鈥檚 a saving on fuel of 拢10,000 in a year. It鈥檚 also a great sales message for our plant hire business 鈥� that customers could save so much on fuel when they select machines from us.鈥�
The machines are already in use on a range of construction, groundworks and forestry projects, including a wind farm construction project in the Scottish Borders for Galeforce and a forestry road formation project on the west coast near Inverary