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UK
Beginning as a welding fabrication business in China, the SANY Group( SANY) has grown exponentially since 1989. Now a $ 20 billion business with 60,000 employees worldwide, SANY produces a full range of construction equipment including onetonne to 100-tonne excavators, wheel loaders, cranes and port machinery. The group has become the global leader in excavators, cranes and piling rigs, alongside its sister company Putzmeister, producing over 100,000 excavators in 2020. Going from strength to strength, SANY has also started a renewable energy business which manufactures items such as wind turbines and solar panels. More recently, it has opened an innovative battery factory to produce lithium-ion batteries for its own machinery.“ SANY’ s USP is essentially our highquality manufacturing and premium quality products,” explains Leigh Harris, SANY UK’ s
Business Development Director.“ Therefore, we have tried to tie that in with the best battery technology available on the market. The batteries we put in our machines are incredibly stable, robust and have a long lifespan. Lithium-ion phosphate is the highest quality battery technology you can buy, but without cobalt, which from an environmental standpoint, is hugely important. When it comes to mining raw materials, mining cobalt is terribly bad for the environment, and we’ ve designed a battery that has no cobalt.
“ From a customer’ s perspective, the excavators can charge very quickly too. Similarly to a car charging port, they can charge in 60 to 90 minutes and last a full working day, like a diesel machine. One example is a key SANY customer who has a 20-tonne electric excavator onsite and, in nine months, they managed 1700 hours of work with it while saving over 70 tonnes of carbon emissions in the process. This is largely due
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