Groenveld’s continuous investment into research and development

MICHAEL GRACIE, General Manager of Groeneveld Australia provides a report on the automatic maintenance systems specialists.

GROENEVELD ON WORLD-WIDE FRONT

Groeneveld Group, supplier of automatic maintenance systems, and active safety systems for transport and earthmoving, celebrated its fortieth year anniversary on the 11th of May this year. On the occasion of this anniversary, the Groeneveld Experience Centre was established at the head office in Gorinchem Netherlands, where customers, dealers, importers, manufacturers and other relations from all corners of the world, become acquainted with the products and services of Groeneveld in a pleasant ambiance.

Ever since the foundation of Groeneveld in 1971, the company has grown to become a globally operating company with more than 500 employees, over thirty locations in more than twenty countries, a modern factory in Italy and development centres in the Netherlands, Israel and Italy. Groeneveld delivers automatic greasing systems, Oilmaster oil management systems and Greensight active safety systems, both for the aftermarket and to a large number of leading manufacturers of trucks, trailers, buses and earth-moving and construction equipment.

AT HOME WITH GROENEVELD

In mid 2009, Groeneveld Australia Pty Ltd underwent a change of management and restructuring. During this time Michael Gracie became the new general manager and the new management team made a unanimous decision that in order to better serve our growing customer base, it was important that Groeneveld relocated to more suitable premises that would make us more accessible to our customers.

After a couple of months of extensive searching and research, a suitable property at 268 Proximity Drive in Sunshine West was found. Its location is very accessible and very close to the thriving hub of Laverton, Derrimut, and surrounds. Situated just 2 minutes off the Western Ring Road with direct freeway access to the North, East, West and South of the State, our Australian head office is now extremely well positioned to meet the needs of our customers as we continue to enjoy the growth and expansion of our business.

Being a brand new building, the new property not only offers more than double the warehouse space of their previous building in Sunbury, it also gave us the opportunity to design and build our own office layout.

In February 2010 aft er months of planning and construction Groeneveld was ready to move into the new building which has seen strong support from our customers and dealers within the area.

Not only do we have this new state of the art Head Office premises in Sunshine we also have branches in Arndell Park, Rocklea, Rockhampton, Townsville, Devonport, Belmont and Wingfield.

GROENEVELD CUSTOMER PRODUCT REVIEW

Delta Rent is a division of Delta Group, a familiar brand on large demolition and construction sites throughout Australia. The Division specialises in dry hire of the latest technology excavators, wheelloaders, crawler dozers, compactors, motor graders and dump trucks.

Five years ago, Delta recognized the importance of maintaining equipment investment value and optimum operational standards. This led to a study of the available options for automatic maintenance.

Delta Rent’s General Manager said, “With a rental fleet, the easier we make it for our clients to maintain the equipment, the better. Clients appreciate the fact they don’t have to waste productive time in greasing the equipment. With equipment being used in heavy conditions for long hours, it’s critical that greasing is performed regularly.

We’re averaging around 2,000 hours per year with most of the equipment. We started installing the systems in 2006. Some of the new equipment we had purchased had come fitted with the Groeneveld system. We liked how it performed and decided to standardize on that product for our fleet”.

We are pleased with how the system is performing on our Caterpillar, Komatsu, Hitachi and Volvo equipment. We now specify Groeneveld factory fitted systems on most of the equipment we purchase.

Unlike manual greasing where the grease doesn’t stay in place where it needs to protect against friction, the system’s metered grease application is constant. Because parts are moving during the greasing process, the entire surface of critical components remains lubricated.

Compared with manual greasing at scheduled intervals, automatic greasing has been proven to provide the best possible grease distribution across the bearing surfaces, with constant sealing while substantially lowering grease consumption.

We’d love to assist you with your efficiency and safety requirements. So as you can see Groenveld’s continuous investment into research and development of quality control over the previous 40 years, not only applies to our products but also to our professionalism and offices.

So call in the next time you are in one of these areas and talk to the team at Groeneveld and see how our Automatic Greasing and Active Safety systems can improve your efficiency.

For further information call Groenveld Australia on Freecall: 1800 640 560.

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