PAUS signs MoU with ELQUIP to evaluate and set up an Australian dealership

Hermann Paus Maschinenfabrik GmbH (PAUS) and ELQUIP have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to mutually evaluate and prepare a dealership for the Australian market and serve customers with specialised PAUS mobile equipment for the mining & tunnelling market as well as with services and parts.

PAUS’s globally supplied underground mining service and utility product range is probably the most diverse and extensive in the industry. It includes material handling trucks, tank trucks, crane trucks, loaders (LHDs), underground dump trucks, all purpose vehicles, rock breakers, water cannons, personnel transports, roadheaders, fuel and lube trucks, mobile workshops, tyre handlers, concrete sprayers/mixers, explosives chargers/transporters, graders, working platforms, firefighting vehicles, multi-cassette trucks, mine rescue vehicles, flameproof vehicles and more.

ELQUIP brings to market the combined capabilities and experience of 40 years in the OEM space, specialising in innovative equipment design and manufacture of high-quality products and services for the Australian mining and construction industries. The statement said: “Collaboratively working with clients to develop equipment and technologies which create improvements and benefits in safety and efficiencies at the workplace. In a time of globalisation and standardisation, not every job or jobsite can use a standard product or service, often something special or unique is required and over time ELQUIP realises there are smarter ways to achieve a better outcome.”

PAUS says it is always close and constant contact with customers to understand their needs and always to deliver a solution that best suits their individual applications. All of its mining and tunnelling machines are ‘Made for Mining’ and characterised by having high quality. made in Germany. The company continues: “All PAUS vehicles and machines for mining & tunnelling are explicitly designed and built for the challenging operating conditions underground. The wide portfolio, the variety of options, and the customised features available along with the machines will provide the basis for almost every task – it doesn’t matter how individual the solution needs to be.”

Besides the continuous improvement of the products and enhancement of the available technologies, PAUS adds that it also offers forward-looking solutions like battery electric vehicles (BEV), IoT interfaces, remote and teleoperation, new safety features, and many more.