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Cover story
Quality assurance from Liebherr
When a business is founded on the quality of its products, it follows that similar standards are demanded from its front-line equipment. Which is why Longcliffe Quarries returned to Liebherr Rental when it required a pair of high- performance wheeled loaders.
Longcliffe shifts more than a million tonnes a year of high- quality calcium carbonates for the construction, agricultural, manufacturing and other industries. At Its Brassington Moor quarry at Matlock in Derbyshire the company produces a range of limestone products and helping to maintain output over the next three years under a lease deal will be a pair of 29-tonne L 580 XPower® shovels carrying 5.7m3 general-purpose buckets.
They were brought in to replace similar-sized models in a large fleet that’s a mix of owned and rented equipment. ‘That gives us the flexibility we need to run our business,’ explained quarry manager Jon Murgatroyd.
Last year the quarry took delivery of a new R 972 excavator from Liebherr’s rental division and executives needed no convincing to return when the shovels became due for replacement, as Murgatroyd explained: ‘We were very impressed with the way in which Liebherr Rental approached our early request and our requirements for the excavator. We were on the cusp of looking for a pair of wheeled loaders at the time and again, Gareth Blythin [Liebherr’s national rental contracts manager] came up with a very good deal.’
A million tonnes a year is a reasonable volume but Longcliffe’s business model values quality over quantity; it wants only the best stone to manufacture the various grades of industrial powders that are used worldwide. Stone not used in those processes is crushed and screened into aggregates for construction purposes.
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