Terex Corporation’s Leicestershire plant is the Centre of
Excellence for Crushing Technology for its Materials
Processing business. It is focused on reducing the risk of
accidents and injuries to its employees and has invested in
two electric-operated tugs for moving 16t crusher machines
through the production process

Terex Corporation, based in the US is
a diversified global manufacturer of a
broad range of equipment operating
in five business segments. At its Coalville
plant Terex manufactures heavy material
processing equipment, including mobile and
static crushing, screening, washing and
recycling equipment.

The Coalville plant employs about 80
people and produces a wide range of
crushing machines, which can vary in weight
from 10 tonnes up to 38 tonnes. These
machines are primarily used by customers in
the aggregates, minerals, mining, quarrying,
recycling and demolition sectors.

The crushers are moved through various
stages of production by using bogies on rail
tracks fixed to the factory floor. Due to the
weight of the crushers, manoeuvring the
bogies can be quite a challenge.

Simon Croker, general manager at Terex,
says: “Prior to investing in MasterMover’s
MasterTug MT20 machines, we were having
to push and pull the bogies along the tracks
using forklift trucks. We wanted to look at
another viable option.

Terex searched for a suitable alternative
on the Internet and came across
MasterMover’s website. The MasterTug
MT20-1500 was identified as a suitable
machine for moving the bogies. The
MasterTug can pull, push and steer wheeled
loads from 50kg up to 25,000kg. Traction is
key to moving heavy loads and so the
MasterTug is designed to get all the traction
it needs by using a coupling system to
transfer load weight to the drive wheel.

Terex purchased two MT20s in June 2012
and has been using these machines
primarily in the paint and shot blasting bays,
where they push and pull the bogies in and
out of the spray booths.

As well as supplying the two MT20 tugs,
MasterMover also manufactured five
different quick-release couplings for Terex,
to enable the MT20s to attach easily and
quickly to each of the five types of bogie at
the plant.

“The benefits of using the MasterTug
MT20 machines are their ease of use. It’s
also a very compact machine, which means
it is easy to move bogies in and out of tight
spaces or around corners.

“The feedback from the production staff
has been overwhelmingly positive. The
initial training provided by MasterMover
was excellent and so the buy-in from the
workforce was very high,” explains Simon
Croker.