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Bell rings in 70th anniversary with autonomous truck demo at Hillhead
To mark its seventieth anniversary and forty years as an Articulated Dump Truck (ADT) manufacturer, Bell Equipment is going full throttle at Hillhead 2024 where its latest innovation, an autonomous B40E Articulated Dump Truck (ADT), will operate in a live quarry demonstration.
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Mabona Civils enters into contract mining with two Bell B40Es
When Andile Mbele was a young graduate working his way up through the ranks in a small municipality in the northern part of the Eastern Cape province, he always thought that there had to be a more efficient way of delivering infrastructure projects to ease the lives of people living in rugged conditions in that province.
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Bell expands BETA Parts range and footprint
Less than a year after launching its Bell Equipment Trusted Alternative (BETA) Parts offering, Bell Equipment has expanded its footprint of South Africa, and Zambia to include the major articulated dump truck markets of the European and United States dealer network.
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Zambia’s Grizzly Mining achieves economy of scale with Bell B50Es
The existence of emerald deposits in Zambia dates to the 1920s but it was only in the 1970s and 1980s, once prospecting and mining techniques had developed, that mining started taking place. Today the country is the world’s second-largest producer of emeralds, a gemstone more than twenty times rarer than diamonds, and mining efficiently is just as important as it was when emerald mining first started.
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RJV adds four Bell Water Tankers to its growing fleet
From humble beginnings dating back to 1955 RJ Vincent & Co (RJV), a privately owned family company, initially provided bulldozing services in country areas of Western Australia. RJV has since evolved to become one of the most respected and leading civil engineering and mining services contractors in Western Australia with a proud record for ‘doing things right’.
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Unitrans Mining chooses Bell Equipment as machinery supplier
Kobus Burger, Operations Executive: Unitrans Mining, emphasised the long-standing relationship the company has cultivated with Bell Equipment over the years. “As a group, we have always relied on Bell Equipment for many of our mining, haulage, material handling, and agricultural machinery requirements,” Kobus states. “This enduring partnership has been built upon the foundation of trust and reliability that Bell Equipment consistently delivers to Unitrans.”
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Bell Equipment appoints Ashley Bell as new CEO
Bell Equipment Limited has appointed Ashley Jon Bell (41), grandson of the company’s founder Irvine Bell, as the new Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective from 1 January 2024.
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Bell launches new Bell Heavy Industries division
With almost seventy years of demonstrated expertise in complex engineering, heavy fabrication, and machining for its own range of material handling equipment, Bell Equipment is now offering these specialist services to all industries in the country through its newly formed division, Bell Heavy Industries (BHI).
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