Earlier this year, McMahon services’ Engineering and Fabrication division put the finishing touches on two of the largest specialist demolition Excavators ever built in Australia
The machines were specifically designed and manufactured to mechanically shear large industrial steel structures for the industrial and resources sector. David McMahon, McMahon Services Managing Director, said, “There has been strong demand throughout Australia for the Company’s expertise in these sectors in recent times.”
“We have seen the growth of large industrial demolition projects with the rationalisation of the manufacturing and mining industries, and companies today have policies of rehabilitating sites that are no longer economically viable. We offer a unique turn-key solution, asset value realisation, demolition, remediation, and site rehabilitation which have fuelled our growth in this sector,” David explained.
In response to the demand for these services, McMahon Services is continuing to build on our existing fleet of equipment, and is planning to have the most diverse, powerful and efficient group of heavy demolition machinery in Australia.
The new machines that we have manufactured are impressive, with one weighing 150 tonnes and the other, 110 tonnes. The mechanical shears that are fitted to these machines are capable of cutting through 70 millimetre steel plate and 1.5 metre steel beams, and can also reach to heights of 24 metres.
McMahon Services designed and built these machines in-house using a small team of expert tradesmen working around the clock over a four month period. Reflecting on the achievement,
David McMahon said that he was proud of what our team had been able to achieve and insisted their design and fabrication capabilities matched anything that was available in the world today.
Both machines headed to Western Australia in February for a large demolition project for an iron-ore major in the Pilbara. The project was a massive undertaking and involved the recycling of over 6,000 tonnes of industrial structures into scrap metal.
