Heavy duty machinery businesses in Zambia

Here you will find established companies that provide heavy-duty machinery in Zambia, primarily for the mining sector. These include lift trucks, locomotives, mining machines, loaders, cranes, containers, trailers and more, specially designed for executing construction and mining tasks such as earthwork operations.

Following is a shortlist of some heavy-duty vehicles used in the construction industry in Zambia

• Excavators are essential construction equipment widely used in the civil construction industry. Their general purpose is excavation, but other than that, they are also used for many purposes like heavy lifting, demolition, river dredging, cutting of trees, etc.
• A dragline excavator is another piece of heavy equipment integral to the construction industry. It is generally used for larger depth excavations.
• Backhoe - The name itself implies that the digging arrangement is on the backside of the equipment, while the loading bucket is on the front. Backhoe loaders are one of the most versatile pieces of construction equipment. They have a wide variety of uses across the construction industry
• The bulldozer is primarily used as earth-moving equipment. The blade on the front of the bulldozer is used to push or remove the soil, sand, and debris on construction sites.
• Graders, or motor graders, are a type of heavy equipment used for the construction of roads. They are mainly used to level the soil surface.
• A wheel tractor scraper is a piece of earth-moving equipment needed to flatten the surface of the soil through scraping.
• Trencher - The heavy equipment trencher is used in construction to excavate trenches in the soil. The trenches are needed to lay the pipeline, cable, or for drainage purposes.
• Loaders are a piece of equipment used on the construction site to load the material onto dump boxes, dump trucks, etc.
• Tower cranes are fixed cranes needed for hoisting purposes in the construction of tall structures.
• A paver or asphalt paver is pavement laying equipment that is needed in road construction.